Pop Quiz: Faulkner Character, Georgia Bulldog, or Signer of the Declaration of Independence?

and I’ve actually read a lot of Faulkner. Great idea, though. My god, who could possibly do well at this?

Then again, it’s been years since i’ve read faulkner, I don’t follow Georgia football like a Georgia fan, and I’ve never really known who signed the DoI

There’s a significant gap in my education and experience with Faulkner’s name on it. If I had a do-over, I’d have majored in English or history instead of political science (except I wouldn’t trade my time with St. Augustine, Voltaire, Nietzsche, Mill, Locke, Rousseau, Erasmus, Hobbes, etc.). This gap is significant to me, given my strong belief that the best literature in the English language since the Revolutionary War is disproportionately (by far) from the Southern U.S. I grew up on Poe; “The Marshes of Glynn” was written under a tree on my ancestors’ property; the ending of Lancelot was one of the most memorable novel-reading experiences I’ve ever had (you with me, Pittman?); I could not have lived in Columbus, GA, without letting McCullers torture me from time to time; I hope never again to be disturbed by a piece of fiction as much as I was reading Alice Walker’s Possessing the Secret of Joy (but I’m glad I did it once). How I’ve missed Faulkner is a bit of a mystery.

… I spent my time making Georgia players’ names out of the non-football entries.

2. Richard Samuel Adams
3. Henry Harris Armstid
4. Josiah Bartlettley Miller
5. Maury Matt BasStinchcomb
7. Quincy Carter Braxton
8. Goodhue Dan PorterColdfield
9. We play Virginia in bad bowl games Sartoris Dupre
11. Benjamin Watson Franklin
13. Elbridge GTerry Hoage
14. Lucius Andy Hoganganbeck
18. Theophilus Chris McCarthyslin
19. Lewis Morris Lewis
21. Caesar Rodney Hampton
23. George Patton Ross
24. Danny Rogers Sherman
25. Ernest Greg Talleyiaferro
27. William Goldberg Williams
28. Grover Brian Cleveland Winbush
29. John Will Witherspoon