CLIMACTIC PASSAGE FROM "THE MANSION." Typescript with holograph annotations, 2 pp recto and verso, 4to, n.p., n.d., comprising page 43 recto of a draft of The Mansion, and page 15 verso of an apparently discarded passage of the Snopes trilogy, crossed through with red crayon, separation along folding creases, encased in laminate with browning around edges, else fine. A rare surviving fragment from one of Faulkner's major works, this typescript includes the climactic scene at the end of Chapter 1 of The Mansion, in which Mink Snopes narrates the murder of Jack Houston for the first time in his own words. The version here includes some detailed holograph reworking of the critical phrases, which differ in interesting ways from the final version and yet retain the dramatic crescendo. In part: "Because sometimes a week would pass before Houston would ride in to the store. But sooner or later he would do so; and if all he, Mink, needed to beat them with was just waiting, then they could give up now and quit. So it was not that day nor even the next day nor maybe even the one after that, because he couldn't remember now how many days he had sat there when he heard the hooves on the bridge and then he saw the horse stallion, boring, frothing a little, tossing its arrogant vicious head against the snaffle and curb both which which Houston rode it, and the big lean hound bounding along at its flank. Then himself cocking the two hammers and laying the gun in the port-hole and even as he laid the barrels on Houston's chest, leading him a just a little, and his finger beginning to squeeze already squeezing taking the slack out of the front trigger, thinking he thought And even now; they aint satisfied even yet, thinking how if there had only been time, space, between the sound of the shot explosion and the impact of the buckshot, for him to say to Houston and for Houston to have heard it: "I aint shooting you because of them twenty-five one-dollar days. That's all right; I done forgot and forgive that. Likely Will Varner couldn't do nothin else; a rich man too, all you rich folks have got to stick together or maybe someday some the folks that aint rich might raise up and take it away from you. It That aint that why I shot you. I killed you because of that extra one-dollar pound-fee." See illustration.
CLIMACTIC PASSAGE FROM "THE MANSION." Typescript with holograph annotations, 2 pp recto and verso, 4to, n.p., n.d., comprising page 43 recto of a draft of The Mansion, and page 15 verso of an apparently discarded passage of the Snopes trilogy, crossed through with red crayon, separation along folding creases, encased in laminate with browning around edges, else fine. A rare surviving fragment from one of Faulkner's major works, this typescript includes the climactic scene at the end of Chapter 1 of The Mansion, in which Mink Snopes narrates the murder of Jack Houston for the first time in his own words. The version here includes some detailed holograph reworking of the critical phrases, which differ in interesting ways from the final version and yet retain the dramatic crescendo. In part: "Because sometimes a week would pass before Houston would ride in to the store. But sooner or later he would do so; and if all he, Mink, needed to beat them with was just waiting, then they could give up now and quit. So it was not that day nor even the next day nor maybe even the one after that, because he couldn't remember now how many days he had sat there when he heard the hooves on the bridge and then he saw the horse stallion, boring, frothing a little, tossing its arrogant vicious head against the snaffle and curb both which which Houston rode it, and the big lean hound bounding along at its flank. Then himself cocking the two hammers and laying the gun in the port-hole and even as he laid the barrels on Houston's chest, leading him a just a little, and his finger beginning to squeeze already squeezing taking the slack out of the front trigger, thinking he thought And even now; they aint satisfied even yet, thinking how if there had only been time, space, between the sound of the shot explosion and the impact of the buckshot, for him to say to Houston and for Houston to have heard it: "I aint shooting you because of them twenty-five one-dollar days. That's all right; I done forgot and forgive that. Likely Will Varner couldn't do nothin else; a rich man too, all you rich folks have got to stick together or maybe someday some the folks that aint rich might raise up and take it away from you. It That aint that why I shot you. I killed you because of that extra one-dollar pound-fee." See illustration.
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