![]() Faulkner shows this beautifully when he has Judith give her letter to Quentin’s grandmother. Because of this there is often double-talk around the secrets and moments of slippage where you can’t maintain the secrecy anymore. It takes a lot of control for a family to create secrets and there is often tension with the human desire to reach out and share one’s experience. We have a few old mouth-to-mouth tales we exhume from old trunks and boxes and drawers letters without salutation or signature.’” ![]() Or perhaps that’s it: they dont explain and we are not supposed to know. Compson said, “’It just does not explain. ![]() William Faulkner hit on a truth about Southern families in Absalom, Absalom! Through both the story and the way he tells the story, he demonstrates the ways sensitive information is withheld and talked around but never fully concealed. ![]()
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