
Faulkner’s Suicide Honeymoon with Aaron Gwyn
Art of Darkness
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The Importance of Drinking
The novelist is a deep introvert. He would drink so he could kind of lubricate himself into the situations and then he would drink if they went well or poorly. It was sort of he had no other mechanism for taking care of himself it didn't seem like to take care of his sort of somewhat delicate psyche other than to drink um and maybe write. The level of the Nobel Prize is right it does not get biggerYeah yeah yeah right So I think on one level he felt you know validated and that sort of thing um but on the on another level he didn't like having to talk to people all the time.
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