On the excesses of symbolist readings by critics – from Dan McCall’s The Silence of Bartleby (pg24)
Years ago I read an essay suggesting that in The Sound and the Fury, when Jason enters his niece’s room on Easter Sunday and finds her underwear strewn about, we should remember Jesus’ burial clothes after the stone was rolled away from the Tomb. I just could not put that hose and bra on the Son of God.
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