Memory believes before knowing remembers. —William Faulkner, Light in August In his tenth novel, Light in August, William Faulkner recounts the earliest memories of five-year-old Joe Christmas, a mulatto child abandoned at birth on Christmas day on the doorsteps of an orphanage in Faulkner’s mythic Yoknapatawpha County in Northern Mississippi. Christmas intuits and stores in his little mind the understated actions, the inferred comments, the inexplicable
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