Lon Quick, Sr.

Submitted by dotty.dye@asu.edu on Fri, 2014-08-08 02:20
Text: 
As I Lay Dying
Character Key: 
Lon Quick I
Display Name: 
Lon Quick, Sr.
Sort Name: 
Quick, Sr., Lon
AKA: 
Big Lon
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Lower Class
Rank: 
Peripheral
Vitality: 
Alive
First Mentioned: 
Samson's Farm in As I Lay Dying (Location)
Other Texts: 
"Lizards in Jamshyd’s Courtyard"
"Spotted Horses"
The Hamlet
The Mansion
Biography: 

Lon Quick, senior, is mentioned by his son, also named Lon, when he tells Samson that he sold Jewel his horse. He is apparently quite adept at telling the time: "Lon Quick could look even at a cloudy sky and tell the time to ten minutes. Big Lon I mean, not little Lon" (161).

Note: 
SR In the fictions there are both "Lon Quick" (4 texts) and "Solon Quick" (3 texts, all later). These might be two different names for same character, and Brooks indexes 'him' that way, as 'QUICK, SOLON, 'LON.'" But others (Dasher, Kirk) separate them into two different characters with almost the same name, and that's what we have chosen to do too. DDThere is nothing in this particular text itself that suggests that the Quicks are farmers but I suppose many assume it. I am hesitant about putting it in the data.
Individual or Group: 
Individual
Character changes class in this text: 

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