(Begin Faulkner mode)

My driveway is full of lumber and concrete.

(End Faulkner mode)

I liked my HS junior year English teacher, I really did (Hey, Mr. Walker!). But his assignment of “As I Lay Dying” caused me to temper that affection a little. I didn’t get the allegories and it turned me off to Faulkner for about twenty years.