Quote of the moment: William Faulkner, on the passing of the past


William Faulkner, with dogs

William Faulkner, with dogs

The past is never dead.  It’s not even past.

— William Faulkner’s character Gavin Stevens, Requiem for a Nun, 1951

Tip of the old scrub brush to Michael Sacasas at The Frailest Thing

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2 Responses to Quote of the moment: William Faulkner, on the passing of the past

  1. Ed Darrell says:
    June 24, 2010 at 10:20 pm

    I don’t!

    There are a couple of typewriter museums on the net . . . let’s see . . . At Xavier U, but I can’t find the word “Ayn” there:
    http://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/tw-faq.html#q8

    Ask Alan Greenspan. (Heck, maybe he has it.)

    Did she really pick a name that way? Too bad she didn’t have an Olivetti, or a Remington, or an IBM.

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  2. chamblee54 says:
    June 24, 2010 at 7:34 pm

    Does anyone know what happened to the Remington Rand typewriter that Ayn Rand got her pen name from?

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