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On Meeting William Faulkner and Other Excerpts from Don Bachardy's Journal
Excerpt - Faulkner, however, is not in the least forthcoming. Gray-haired and compact, he is like a gentlemanly veteran of the Great War who, suffering from shell shock, has learned to get along without communicating much with those around him. Perhaps in his drinking days alcohol encouraged him to speak more. During the long evening with us and the two women he occasionally sucked on a pipe, perhaps to console a mouth which has been deprived of most other uses. More...

On James C. McCormick
by James Patrick White
Excerpt - The old fashioned eighteenth century idea of the importance of a person’s character has surely taken a beating in twenty-first century America. You seldom hear about a politician’s remarkable character, or an artist’s, a scholar’s, a scientist’s, or a businessman’s. But there are certain individuals we meet in a lifetime who impress us in unusual, even extraordinary ways, people who stand head and shoulders above the rest because of their character.

To give an example of this concept of character, I’ll repeat an incident that the businessman James McCormick experienced one morning at a drugstore in Dallas. More...