When Joe Brown asks the "old negro woman" sitting on the porch of her cabin about who lives there, she replies "Aint nobody here but me and the two little uns" (433-34). She adds that these two children are "too little" to carry a message to town (434), but neither she nor the narrative say anything else about them.
When Joe Brown, in Light in August, asks the "old negro woman" sitting on the porch of her cabin about who lives there, she replies "Aint nobody here but me and the two little uns" (433-34). She adds that these two children are "too little" to carry a message to town (434), but neither she nor the narrative say anything else about them.
This church - referred to by its unnamed pastor as the "late Fust Baptis' church" (286) - has already been "burnt down" before the novel begins (240). It is mentioned in the novel in the comic context of Simon's misappropriation of the funds that the Negro congregation has been saving to replace it with a Second Baptist church. The narrative says nothing more about how it was burned down, and provides no details that would help us identify where it stood.
This is the "negro cabin in town" where, at the end of the novel, Simon Strothers is found murdered by an unidentified killer; the cause of death is "a blunt instrument anonymously wielded" (394). Given what the novel had revealed earlier, however, about Simon's relationship with Meloney Harris (see 241), it seems likely that the cabin is hers, and that the murder weapon was wielded by a man in her life who took exception to Simon's presence in the cabin. We also have to speculate about where "in town" the cabin should be located.
This is the "negro cabin in town" where Meloney Harris lives in Flags in the Dust, and where, at the end of the novel, Simon Strothers is found murdered by an unidentified killer; the cause of death is "a blunt instrument anonymously wielded" (394). Given what the novel had revealed earlier, however, about Simon's relationship with Meloney (see 241), it seems likely that the murder weapon was wielded by a man in her life who took exception to Simon's presence in her cabin. We also have to speculate about where "in town" the cabin should be located.
Pittsburgh is mentioned twice in Requiem for a Nun. First (along with Fort Bridger, Wyoming) it is cited as proof of how connected the interior of the nation is by its waterways during the 19th century (83), and then it is mentioned as the site of the "factories" that make the sheets of plate glass for the windows of 20th century Jefferson's stores (192).
Heidelberg University in western Germany was founded in 1386. Gavin Stevens became the most educated man in Yoknapatawpha when he took his doctorate there early in the 20th century.
Heidelberg University in western Germany was founded in 1386. Gavin Stevens became the most educated man in Yoknapatawpha when he took his doctorate there early in the 20th century.
