William Faulkner

The Past Is Dead

February 4, 2022

Here is an excerpt from a post by Josh Linkner at his blog. In Requiem for a Nun, William Faulkner offers another perspective: “The past is not dead. It’s not even past.” My own opinion is that both are correct…

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Why study history?

March 6, 2021

In her bestseller, From These Truths: A History of the United States, Jill Lepore suggests no one can know a nation as far back as 1787, “with or without baby teeth kept in a far. But studying history is like…

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The Past Is Dead

October 30, 2015

Here is an excerpt from a post by Josh Linkner at his blog. In Requiem for a Nun, William Faulkner offers another perspective: “The past is not dead. It’s not even past.” My own opinion is that both are correct…

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Good Artists Copy; Great Artists Steal

August 28, 2013

“Good Artists Copy; Great Artists Steal” Who said it first? Steve Jobs? Pablo Picasso? T. S. Eliot? W. H. Davenport Adams? Lionel Trilling? Igor Stravinsky? William Faulkner? Apocryphal? Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Garson O’Toole…

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