“DRY SEPTEMBER” William Faulkner claimed he was trying to fit the whole world between the capital letter at the beginning and the period at the end of a sentence, and that’s why his sentences tended to be so long. In the very first sentence of his short story “Dry September,” he manages to establish the beginning of a world, its dark mood, and point the reader in the direction of the story’s theme. “…showed first 75 words of 1395 total…

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