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Page 121
... Sutpen's return from the Civil War : " Well , Kernel , they moughta kilt us , but they sure ain't whupped us , air they ? " To Jones Sutpen is still the plume - hatted Colonel , the brave gentle- man on the black stallion , and it is to ...
... Sutpen's return from the Civil War : " Well , Kernel , they moughta kilt us , but they sure ain't whupped us , air they ? " To Jones Sutpen is still the plume - hatted Colonel , the brave gentle- man on the black stallion , and it is to ...
Page 126
... Sutpen's history is the most important story in a series of conflicts between social mechanism and personal identity . After we have seen many of the worst effects of Sutpen's conduct , we learn something of the motivation that impelled ...
... Sutpen's history is the most important story in a series of conflicts between social mechanism and personal identity . After we have seen many of the worst effects of Sutpen's conduct , we learn something of the motivation that impelled ...
Page 130
... Sutpen . These are the brave , incompetent officers , Faulkner says , who during the war destroyed great stores of enemy supplies and then robbed their neighbors of food and wives . To Jones , as to the young boy Thomas Sutpen , all the ...
... Sutpen . These are the brave , incompetent officers , Faulkner says , who during the war destroyed great stores of enemy supplies and then robbed their neighbors of food and wives . To Jones , as to the young boy Thomas Sutpen , all the ...
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