'Europe in World War I' is one of the locations that appear most frequently in the Yoknapatawpha fictions. In this novel that place and time appear only negatively, when the narrative notes that Percy Grimm was born too late "to have been in the European War" (450).
Twice in the novel Horace tells himself that "when this is over, I'll go to Europe" (134, see also 260). He isn't more specific, and in fact the novel makes it clear that in the end he goes back to Belle. But his evocation of Europe as a place to escape to is an interesting twist on the way so many other inhabitants of Yoknapatawpha see 'Texas' as a place of refuge.
The only time "Africa" is mentioned in the novel, it's as an adjective and as a figure to suggest the absolute racial difference between 'white' and 'African': according to the narrative, the white man whom Joe finds sitting on Bobbie's bed might have been Max's brother, "in the sense that any two white men strayed suddenly into an African village might look like brothers to them who live there" (214).
This is the "party of horsemen" who, led by the brother of Nathan Bedford Forrest, rode their horses "into the lobby" of the Gayoso Hotel in Memphis and, according to Lucius, "almost captured a Yankee general" (94). Lucius does not say more about the cavalrymen, except that they included the Priest family's "remote" kinsman Theophilus McCaslin (94).
This is the "party of horsemen" mentioned by Lucius in The Reivers that was led by the brother of Nathan Bedford Forrest; they rode their horses "into the lobby" of the Gayoso Hotel in Memphis and, according to Lucius, "almost captured a Yankee general" (94). Lucius does not say more about the cavalrymen, except that they included the Priest family's "remote" kinsman Theophilus McCaslin (94).
These men appear in the novel in absentia as part of the explanation of how Otis Meadowfill ended up "choosing [Gavin] Stevens from among the other Jefferson lawyers" (367). As a county seat and the site of a federal courthouse, Jefferson presumably had quite a number of lawyers throughout its history.
These men appear in absentia in The Mansion as part of the explanation of how Otis Meadowfill ended up "choosing [Gavin] Stevens from among the other Jefferson lawyers" (367). As a county seat and the site of a federal courthouse, Jefferson presumably had quite a number of lawyers throughout its history.
This vague "Italian marble syndicate" is identified as the only group( or person) who had ever sold Flem "anything as amorphous as prestige" (358). The reference is to the monument and medallion that Flem erects on Eula's grave in The Town. Whether "marble syndicate" includes the craftsmen who worked with the marble, or just to the executives who managed the transaction, isn't clear.
