 | Stephen M. Ross - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 308 pages
...piece'" (3; 1); at other times psychic voice is couched in a rhetoric no character would ever speak: "Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes...than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders. Knows remembers believes a corridor in a big long garbled cold echoing building" (131; m). The novel's... | |
 | Richard Linklater - Performing Arts - 1992 - 164 pages
...received an ovation from troubled sixteen year olds for his version of "Tangled Up in Blue" Faulkner koan: "Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes...than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders." Ambition: Teach early-twentieth-century literature '. WV'.WVVV ••••••••'• iW. V.... | |
 | Joanne Rappaport - History - 1994 - 270 pages
...Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. To my father, Irving Rappaport Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes...than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders. WILLIAM FAULKNER, Light in August Contents List of Illustrations xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction... | |
 | David L. Minter - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 300 pages
...out to be more deadly than the "thousand savage and lonely streets" he has already traveled, where "memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes...than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders." Toward the end, we see him carrying his fragile life with him "like it was a basket of eggs." Years... | |
 | Philip M. Weinstein - Education - 1996 - 302 pages
...yes, but an attention long since forgotten. That chapter opens a page earlier with the haunting words, "Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes...than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders" (486). The grown-up Joe Christmas will have no clue that he witnessed this earlier scene as a child,... | |
 | John Bassett - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 442 pages
...an uncertainty about what he is trying to do. There is, for instance, that Gertrude-Steinian trick: 'Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes...than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders. Knowing remembers believes' etc. Here it is incidental to a rendering (for the most part in a quite... | |
 | David Grimsted - History - 1998 - 392 pages
...And this time the stove really was cracking. PART II The South Asserting Mastery, Terrorizing Doubt Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes...than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders. — William Faulkner, Light in August The [slaveholder's] creed ... is reiterated all the oftener and... | |
 | Efraín Kristal - 1998 - 284 pages
...it displays tensions between Don Anselmo's sexual desires, guilt feelings, and fantasies: Faulkner: Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.83 Perhaps memory knowing, knowing beginning to remember; perhaps even desire, since five is... | |
 | Henry Claridge - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 716 pages
...simply the result of a certain literary form) the chapter on Christmas' infancy begins as follows: Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes...than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders. Knows remembers believes a corridor in a big long gabled cold echoing building. . . . The real, then,... | |
 | Donald M. Kartiganer, Ann J. Abadie - Electronic books - 1999 - 268 pages
...think" to "I believe" echoes the passage that opens chapter 6 (and is repeated elsewhere in the novel): "Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes...than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders. Knows remembers believes." (119). Believing, although not based on sensory or cognitive fact (like... | |
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Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders. 
