Just wanted to point out that the “pot is light” as they say in poker circles. Please submit your posts ASAP, unless you’re taking your skip.

On another note, Elizaveta speculated on the title in her excellent post. I should have covered this so wanted to do so now. The title comes from Homer’s ODYSSEY, when Odysseus travels to the underworld and meets his comrade Agamemnon, who has been murdered and his body disrespected by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover. The title would seem to speak to proprieties around death and dying and their violations, in ways that become increasingly clear in the novel!

I’ll also mention that, like Joyce’s Ulysses, Faulkner’s novel might be seen as a modernist take on the epic, with life and death and love and betrayal, with a perilous journey in which nature itself seems pitted against the heroes. But of course in modernist fashion, the realism and earnestness of the narrative mode is undercut in all kinds of ways…