 | Peter J. Conn - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 624 pages
...Intruder in the Dust (1948), freedom became a memory: For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not only once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not two o'clock on that July afternoon in 1863, the brigades are in position behind the rail fence, the... | |
 | History - 1991 - 630 pages
...system." The literature of the lost cause is full of examples. To such former Confederates, it was "still not yet two o'clock on that July afternoon in 1863, the brigades are in position . . . and Pickett . . . waiting for Longstreet to give the word and it's all in the balance. . . .... | |
 | Robert Carroll McMath (Jr.), Robert C. McMath, Jr. - History - 1993 - 258 pages
...Dust, William Faulkner has one of young Chick Mallison's uncles explain to the Mississippi teenager: For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once...the brigades are in position behind the rail fence . . . and Pickett himself . . . looking up the hill waiting for Longstreet to give the word and it's... | |
 | Gabor S. Boritt - History - 1999 - 292 pages
...the battle. Who can forget William Faulkner's words about the time it was "not yet two o'clock . . . the brigades are in position behind the rail fence,...laid and ready in the woods and the furled flags are loosened to break out ... all in the balance . . . it's going to begin . . . and that moment doesn't... | |
 | John Bassett - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 442 pages
...all now you see. Yesterday won't be over until tomorrow and tomorrow began ten thousand years ago. For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once...wants it, there is the instant when it's still not two o'clock on that July afternoon in 1863, the brigades are in position behind the rail fence, the... | |
 | Fiona J. Stafford, Howard Gaskill - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 284 pages
...you see. Yesterday wont be over until tomorrow and tomorrow began ten thousand years ago. For ever Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever...the instant when it's still not yet two o'clock on the July afternoon in 1863 [...] and it's all in the balance, it hasn't happened yet, it hasn't even... | |
 | Lesley J. Gordon - History - 2002 - 294 pages
...Faulkner's Intruder in the Dust contains one of the best-known passages on Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg: For every Southern boy, fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it there is an instant when it's still not yet two o'clock on that luly afternoon in 1863, the brigades are in... | |
 | Henry Claridge - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 716 pages
...Faulkner has given a vivid if somewhat romantic description of this subject in Intruder in the Dust: 'For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instance when it's still not two o'clock on that July afternoon in 1863, the brigades are in position... | |
 | Literary Criticism - 278 pages
...two o'clock on that July afternoon in 1863, the brigades are in position behind the rail fence, and guns are laid and ready in the woods and the furled flags are already loosened to break out and Picket! himself with his long oiled ringlets and his hat in one hand probably and his sword in the... | |
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For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two o'clock on that July afternoon in 1863, the brigades are in position behind the rail fence, the guns are laid and ready in the... 
