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Horrible, misbegotten books.

I read "Fountainhead" in high school due to a scholarship opportunity (no doubt, founded by right-wing knuckleheads)...

Did not submit an essay due to the suckiness of the book.

Instead, had a A+ Faulkner essay submitted to my teacher's proudest moment wherein he was 1 of 6 high school teachers from around the country flown to a yearly Oxford, MS consortium...

...he submitted my essay as an example of how a gifted high school kid could nail the complexity of Faulkner...








I would love to have you, or anybody, teach me to appreciate anything by Faulkner. I can't think of any other author I wanted to like more than him and only wound up feeling thoroughly disappointed.
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