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The Benjy Section

P. 38, Scene 41 (1910) They getting ready to start . . .

P. 38, Scene 42 (1898) "They haven't started because the band . . ."

Scene 41 begins in italics and refers to the "sassprilluh" drinking on the night of Caddy's wedding. Here in this scene, there is considerable indication that Faulkner or the printers made an error since one can contend that the entire scene should be completely in italics and return only to roman type with Scene 42. Note that there is absolutely no indication of the time change in the scene, and the reader must scrutinize closely in order to detect the time change. A clue lies in Benjy's remembering that they have not started the wedding and immediately his mind jumps back in time to when they had not started the funeral. Thus the short Scene 41 should probably be italicized and the time change to Scene 42 should be indicated by a return to ordinary print.


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