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Lena is almost autistically naive and good-natured but the dramatic switch in her disposition when she realises 'Joe Brown' is her lover gone AWOL, and Byron's heart slowly breaking when he realises that SHE's realised, is so 'tea', as the girlies say. Excellent writing, of course - it's Faulkner. Mr Christmas is one to watch.
— Apr 26, 2025 05:53AM
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Catches a nurse in the orphanage getting down to it when he's 5. Is looked after by 'Alice' - a few years older than him then she disappears. Sets the stage for pathological fear/hatred of women? He's adopted but abused by religious nut - the wife enables it. He gets with a waitress but when he learns he's mixed race it all seems to go terribly wrong. I kind of feel bad for him ... but I can't figure out his psyche
— Apr 30, 2025 09:58AM
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Disgraced Rev. Hightower can't escape rumours - that he's a cuckold and sleeps with a black woman. His sermons revolve around some mythic tale concerning his grandfather in the Civil War?
Christmas ratted out by Brown as being the murderer of Miss Brown - the woman of the house who he slept with. She herself was white and her family moved south to provoke slavery riots against their owners.
Lena in-between it all
— Apr 26, 2025 01:12PM
Christmas ratted out by Brown as being the murderer of Miss Brown - the woman of the house who he slept with. She herself was white and her family moved south to provoke slavery riots against their owners.
Lena in-between it all
