Summer, in her Facebook status, immediately pointed out the immediate point of interest to a literature person about Barack Obama’s speech this morning: He messed up the Faulkner quote. In Requiem for a Nun, Faulkner writes, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” Obama embellished the quote, saying: As William Faulkner once wrote, [...]
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[Updated]Post-hiatus Donkey Hottie is about using literature in posts, not just recreating political arguments distilled from a few Daily Kos posts. So as the Obama/Clinton standoff starts inching itself closer and closer to a mess of a convention in Denver, I feel it is useful to bring up a great scene from Fear and Loathing: [...]
