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(Continued from Page 8) tion it may be only that such writ-
- -ing is out of fashion. Today's fash-
attention to its execution might be A U 1 1 K11 circumstances long since forgot-
he'ld suspect.ff" c'T A Tiumsntanfeld mayg arie frgot
heldsuspect.1 11ten. Much of the feeling that man
Miss Grau's careful use of words is a small thing, fit only for pity
is refreshing after the torrents or loathing, may have subon-
of prose which too often show the sciously arisen out of the old doc-
sasme uncertainty of thoutht and trines fo predestination and fore-
timidity of expression heasrd otnow;nte
numberless political speeches. Our ordination we do not o nh
forefathers could in one'seath one creed of protestanism, but in
them aintherskies. gelet' the sitteret the rural regions of the south they
them i e de"get the sitrec were at times less tempered with
tion anugh lintoheven;th it etook for the more humane interpretations
example, a speaker in one of th his young hero felt no kinship. Icish, too, that Mr. Faulkner had the American Legion waving the of thie teachings of Christ.
political conventions far mose This, the almost constant aware- said "sonce artists" or "one art- flag under God, the whiskey man- Men knowing they were fore-
words than this to get the bottoms ness of being above and diferent ist'" Great art Is undoubtedly ufacturer advertising his brand, ordained froms the beginning of
of his listeners out of their chairs: fs(rom the "man-swarm" is a re- been produced by those who saw not as a good thing in itself but time to live without the grace of
for he had to say, "Now, let us curring note sn Faulkner, who is the most of mankind as little ani- as a symbol of genteel living, or God became the most rip roaring
rise and stand up on our feel tprone to dismiss large batches of sals, foreordained and doomed. Malcolm Cowley explaining the sinners of all or lived crushed and
Words instead of beine used as the iman race as being all alike cThe Pharoahs may have so rca- Isysmbolism of one of his prized worm-like; in either case there
symbols to communicate thoughts as in the case of his "little men" coned when they expended thou- pieces, we are one and all obsessed was an eternal consciousness of
can be used as little brics to Polish miners. Other times it is a sanis of lives in the building of with symbolism The symboli has sin, and this is apparent in much
build a wall to hide the t 5ot soc, re ion after a short tour in a the Pyramids: we do not know; become more important than the southern writing, especially in the
and sometis to hide the fa Ford car with Malcolm Cowley i tley may hve been unconcerned thinig itself, and in our self fear work of the preacher's son, Erskine
there isn't aniscy thou't ii. New England Mr. Faulkner was with sit, knowing only they built we seize upon it as still another Caldwell; though no character in
able in a few short sentences toatombs wall between us and reality, and Southern Fiction, that is of nor-
1)OSSIBLY the most common report to readers of the Ford Tt so becoe but Piases. u mal intelligence, can achieve eith-
symptom of fear, and often re-Times the exact nature of The NewS TILL one wonders: the factthat er pole of complete innocence; the
fleeted in Southern Writing is the Englasner is emmpred 1 aTIe 'Mion ised his pen to poli- symbolical the mas who battered ignorance of Natasha in the moon-
everlasting preoc'c'Iation with the Solcuthener. tics in no wisc enhan>ced his art, iss wife to a clody pi p in the light or the sweet unknowing of
sex act, instead of a more all em- Thus, this summer in an inter- though some of his sonnets so .fronta d the d Zola's goose girl; all have eaten of
braring sex Pattern: for in man iew first pubiised i thn Paris vs itten seem close. but could a ths'in pop boter, te re- the tree and knas sin and the sin
as in the bull. maleness does not e ad like tclo atic c an who lived in Milton's England treatisalways ugly.
consist entirely of what is car- at'hay o r. s aely 'c- .sd Id no thu;hts on the tema- who happened to be a Negro; for This awareness of sin, man's
rieedsberoeessthehlisc,,buuldna manas theaenIdnerd.noacords: insteady
ed bete le e, but t siel Mr, Farker iad only es around hi, could a man so these I need no words instead I feeling that to it he was predes-
right to disiaeree, to doubt, to c aslie asd icitil in a uncareing have written Paradie see Proust's cook puttinsg a fowltisaed by God, makes for great
ghtand as a rule the response fess f rtualeentedce, ihe rtncept Lst;could . Keats so callous to to death; I cannot even say that popularity in the school of Intel-
of a mouse ishmore easily condhe He cosciced an artist to be one state of being or thouhts of oth- Prouat could see the same, for lectual Approach with a Psycho-
not rooted in, but above and be- ess cthat ie cared not what the reading is a creative act and to logical Probing. Modern psycholo-
artist's cosnceptiosn of proesnt day .. , cctis said os' tor the sufferings its rs 'a r s hti y foedoms man not throughc
man might by- symbolzd i the yond the little worms of humanity ciissi rfrtesfeig it we bring what we are so that ingyfedmsm ,nothug
neatn miscbu5' syssses in the1 sdthat infest the earth; so far re I of his brother have written Ode to the end each reader creates his; God, but through his subconscious,
beaten bull lust live.siperpetually lthu.mn andinfsaati theaverarth'tl
afraid, able only to assert his moved he stood not only beyond Autumn, own symbol not taking it second and thus agan ye have lhe little
maleness on what stragliig cows all doubt of his own art, but above As we read letters or of their hand, for the slipping of a symbol man, the creature foreordained;
come his way, while the victorious the old laws concerned with man's lives we learn that most writers from one mind into another is an much of the popularity and com-
bull bellows, paws the earth, leads relation to his fellow man; occu- have struggled and suffered and intellectual process that alienates plete agreement of the Southern
the herd, enjoys sex as he enjoys pying the same pedestal was art; hated and loved with the same art. School may arise from bappy
grass and water, and so is unforced an ode we read was sorh nine emotions as lesser beings oftenas THOSE who insist all art must. chance; the witer sub-conscious-
to think of the sex act as the one old women. in the case of Dostoievsky their be symbolical, in a sense deny ly wrought in iienature through
form of self expression left to M Harrison Smith ho used capacity for suffering seemed the very existence of the art it- religion twisted and not peculiar
him, the one surviving proof that Mr. Faulkner's remarks - maga- greater instead of less, and one selef; for once given a burden to tseuh sud thes cnig that
he is male. zines are constantly repeating might say the artist as a rule has bear, art, like the mouthings of Freud and others consciously
each other as if thought were a wrought in theory that was ele-
Miss Graus appsroach to sex iscuerpitr oaodmtg not less, but more of the senses liarAsmerican Marxists ofth th h- vtdt cec n at
i Ga apraht x scherry pitter to be loaned among vted to science and fact.
non-existent; it is there, an aware- to see, to know, to feel the world ties, becomes but a means to an
ness, lustier, less pervasive, yet che f sme -a the ha- around him, and that much of his end, fit partner to police state Much of what we see today i
reminiscent of Jane Austen's abil- his fa eg ie tori artistry lies in his ability to dis- man for he, too, is but an end to a manifestation of the old time
ityis of a hand-clapping editorialtill these for lesser men, who in greater things. religion; sophisticates would smile
Mr. Smith hoped Mr. Faulkner's turn read nd are enriched. at a weeping sinner, who having
connotations. However, Miss Grau's rem.rks and thsories would be d nCan we contemplate nothing for
difference of approach from that used in writers' conferences and However, we no longer read; we the pure joy of the thing: I have cofd yst w es he
of the more conventional Southern so supplant the stu now being I r a n s 1 a t e; Faulkner's remarks through the years collected many Chambers came up to the mourn-
Writers, is possibly most evident tau ht. concerning art and the artists valuable possessions: a ragged Ch'mbench, confessions, tears, rhe-
in her concepon of man as re Ose ias es Mr. Harrison had htve doubtlessly already been sweating tumbler among roses in tonic and all, the inteiectual ap-
'eale. given us a short and concise defi- translated into symbols, and the the snow, a lone gray bird among plauded; in this day and age he
acter' nition of art, for anything so read- symbols translated back again. the reeds, taste of Thoreau's wild probably did the safer thing to
Wolfe saw the "man-swarm" as ily yielding to complete agreement. Never has western man been so apples, hungry sheep with lifted put his past defection on a moral
an unlovely, overgrown mushroom, Ibetween both creator and beholder, preoccupied with symbols; be it heads, and' many other things, basis. The difference is that re-
and with his sprawling vegetable will lend itself to definition. We the hammer and sickle of Russia, some forever carried and often put ligion, not even the old time re-
-. - to use; others never used; early ligion at which we all now sneer,
frost has come and killed my flow- was ever quite so dogmatic. The
ers, but somewhere back in the saved sinner, too, was often quite
woods when the trees are bare my in humble man, who looking
swans will be only the plainer; for about him saw God in his neigh-
7 I, too, have the white swan' of
bar, instead of himself asithe
C LL E TO U RS 1 57 Cooe; clean, calm, immutable, oin- iosly saved amoi' the damned.
touchable, they are always there
and always mine; long ago I think As a child I listened to endless
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