PESO: Rowan Oak

[Christine Aguila]

Paul:  Yea, that's a point about S& F.  Did you ever read The Sanctuary? 
Great villain in that one.  How about the Snopes trilogy?
Christine


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From: "Paul Stenquist" <pnstenquist at comcast.net>
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Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 9:15 PM
Subject: Re: PESO: Rowan Oak


>I can't recall "The Unvanquished." It's been a long time. I liked
> "Sound and the Fury" as an exercise in monologue and narration, but I
> found it tedious in terms of plot. To my mind, it's a good subject
> for academic conjecture but not a particularly good read.
> Paul
> On Mar 21, 2008, at 9:21 PM, Christine Aguila wrote:
>> ugh!  I've got to get my eyes checked--again!  Thanks, Paul.  I'll
>> do a
>> re-do--and I agree about As I Lay Dying.  I actually like "The
>> Unvanquished"
>> a lot & "Sound & the Fury."  Darrel & I saw a 1st edition of S& F
>> WITH the
>> dust jacket in the archives.  Very rare to see a dust jacket of
>> that novel
>> in good condition.  Cheers, Christine
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>>> Nice shot. But i would rotate it until the columns are vertical.
>>> About one
>>> or two degrees counterclockwise.
>>> And, yes, I'm a Faulkner fan. "As I Lay Dying" is my favorite. The
>>> narrative and POV structure is amazing.
>>> Paul
>>> From: "Christine  Aguila" <caguila at earnthlink.net>
>>>> Hi Everyone:
>>>>
>>>> Any William Faulkner fans on the list?  We drove down to Oxford,
>>>> Mississippi
>>>> to see Faulkner's Home, Rowan Oak & some manuscript archives at the
>>>> University of Mississippi, as well as stopping at the Cente for
>>>> Southern
>>>> Culture, which is on campus as well.  I highly recommend going to
>>>> the
>>>> campus
>>>> library to see the manuscript items.  Faulkner's Nobel Peace
>>>> Prize is
>>>> there
>>>> among other items. It's free.  Ole' Miss is a lovely campus, and
>>>> we were
>>>> surprised to learn the student body is only around 14,000
>>>> students.  I
>>>> would
>>>> have guessed 20-25, but I would have been only wrong--again.
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, I've wanted to photograph this famous front walk for a
>>>> long time.
>>>> Unfortunately, the conditions were not so good:  cloudy & a constant
>>>> misty
>>>> rain.  The grounds, which are lovely, were quite muddy.  I had to
>>>> work
>>>> fast,
>>>> wipe the camera, work faster, wipe the camera, then work even
>>>> faster.
>>>> Still, I'm happy I got something.  Sometimes you just have to
>>>> shoot in
>>>> the
>>>> conditions Mother Nature gives & make peace with this fact.
>>>>
>>>> K10D, DA* 50-135, 55mm, ISO 400, 1/13 sec & f11, tripod mounted
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Smaller
>>>> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=7082647
>>>>
>>>> Larger
>>>> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=7082647&size=lg
>>>>
>>>> Comments/critique welcome.
>>>> Cheers, Christine
>>>>
>>>>
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