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Originally Posted by Rose
Well, I only got through about half the book last night (which I still think is an achievement),
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If it's anything like "The Sound and the Fury", then yes. It is definitely an achievement. It's an achievement that you didn't gouge out your eyeballs and bash your skull in with a claw-hammer while trying to decipher the book.
For anyone that hasn't read any Faulkner:
Write out a complete, coherent, grammatically correct paragraph. Delete half the articles (a, the, an), half the prepositions (of, between, for), half the verbs. Then make gerunds out of half of the remaining verbs. Throw in a bunch of random adjectives which,
specifically, have ambiguous objects. Now, get completely hammered and type the revised paragraph into a word processor. Just go with all the default spelling corrections.
You have just written a Faulker paragraph. Congratulations!
(And in much the manner that it was originally written. He was a
total lush.)