August 18th, 2012 / 1:46 pm
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“. . .in August in Mississippi there’s a few days somewhere about the middle of the month when suddenly there’s a foretaste of fall, it’s cool, there’s a lambence, a soft, a luminous quality to the light, as though it came not from just today but from back in the old classic times. It might have fauns and satyrs and the gods and — from Greece, from Olympus in it somewhere. It lasts just for a day or two, then it’s gone. . .the title reminded me of that time, of a luminosity older than our Christian civilization.”

— William Faulkner

7 Comments

  1. August 18th, 2012 / 2:01 pm Trey—

      today at my house we have turned off all the fans and just opened the windows because it is cool enough if we do that, and later I am going to bake a pumpkin pie

  2. August 18th, 2012 / 7:49 pm deadgod—

      Two hours later she was still talking, they sitting side by side on the cot in the now dark cabin. She told him that she was fortyone years old and that she had been born in the house yonder and had lived there ever since. That she had never been away from Jefferson for a longer period than six months at any time and these only at wide intervals filled with homesickness for the sheer boards and nails, the earth and trees and shrubs, which composed the place which was a foreign land to her and her people; when she spoke even now, after forty years, among the slurred consonants and the flat vowels of the land where her life had been cast, New England talked as plainly as it did in the speech of her kin who had never left New Hampshire and whom she had seen perhaps seven times in her life, her forty years. Sitting beside her on the dark cot while the light failed and at last her voice was without source, steady, interminable, pitched almost like the voice of a man, Christmas thought, ‘She is like all the rest of them. Whether they are seventeen or fortyseven, when they finally come to surrender completely, it’s going to be in words.’

      —Light in August

  3. August 19th, 2012 / 11:26 am postitbreakup—

      i like this post

  4. August 19th, 2012 / 9:31 pm kjtuyy—

      is it just me or is molly ringwald looking fiiiiine

  5. August 19th, 2012 / 11:24 pm Trey—

      it’s not just you! I was thinking this just like yesterday or something! I mean I feel like I had been conditioned to think she was like washed up and old looking, but that picture looks great. and sure, it could be make-up and lighting, but she does look fine. sorry I’m a little drunk.

  6. August 19th, 2012 / 11:30 pm reynard—

      myn ultimate ayn rand p0rn

  7. August 20th, 2012 / 7:39 am kjtuyy—

      ‘She is like all the rest of them. Whether they are seventeen or fortyseven, when they finally come to surrender completely, it’s going to be in words.’