Every Day by the Sun: A Memoir of the Faulkners of Mississippi by Wells Dean Faulkner

Author:Wells, Dean Faulkner [Wells, Dean Faulkner]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biography
ISBN: 9780307591050
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Goodreads: 10775555
Publisher: Crown
Published: 2011-03-22T00:00:00+00:00

*Before Jimmy and T, I had been a hymn-singing Baptist with Mama and Papa. My predestination phase lasted through high school until I discovered and fell in love with the words of the 1928 Book of Common Prayer (“erred and strayed from Thy ways like lost sheep … not fit to pick up the crumbs”). For the next thirty years I was a genuflecting Episcopalian. When the church saw fit to adopt a new prayer book, the music of the language and the profound feeling it generated was lost on me. The services no longer rang true. Language matters too much to some of us. At the same time, the mistakes of a lifetime began to haunt me. I decided my best bet was reincarnation. I’ll be starting all over as a black-eyed Susan.

*I think Pappy drank on airplanes because he was afraid to fly. He told me in the late 1950s that he had come to dread long commercial flights. This surprised me, because he’d been the first Faulkner to embrace flying and encouraged my father in his career as a pilot. I didn’t fully understand it until the same thing happened to me. After years of fearless flights, of looking forward to takeoffs and landings, I became terrified almost overnight. Now I fly only when necessary, and only on “Air Vodka” or “Air Ativan,” or both.

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