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<Author>Faulkner, William</Author>
<Title>As I Lay Dying</Title>
<Edition>Novels, 1930-1935. Library of America. New York: Literary Classics of the U.S., 1985</Edition>
<Date>1930</Date>
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<i>To Hal Smith</i>
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<i>Darl</i> (1)
<p>Jewel and I come up from the field, following the path
in single file. Although I am fifteen feet ahead of him,
anyone watching us from the cottonhouse can see Jewel's
frayed and broken straw hat a full head above my own.
<p>The path runs straight as a plumb-line, worn smooth by
feet and baked brick-hard by July, between the green rows of
laidby cotton, to the cottonhouse in the center of the
field, where it turns and circles the cottonhouse at four
soft right angles and goes on across the field again, worn
so by feet in fading precision.
<p>The cottonhouse is of . . .
