{"id":27669,"date":"2021-02-11T15:17:24","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T21:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=27669"},"modified":"2021-02-11T15:17:24","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T21:17:24","slug":"what-not-robert-b-parker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/11\/what-not-robert-b-parker\/","title":{"rendered":"What! Not Robert B. Parker?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Neo posts the complete Macbeth quote<\/a> that includes the passage sound and fury<\/em> which Faulkner later used as the title far a book. Actually, I made it through the first section of The Sound and the Fury<\/em> some years after I was assigned the book in college; the first part is the disjointed bit told by the mentally handicapped brother, and it was only after I got a bit into Quentin’s section that I put it down.<\/p>\n

The focus on Shakespeare’s quote and the Faulkner book are because, apparently, a journalist tried to Ha, ha! a Republican Senator for quoting the Shakespeare when everyone knows<\/em> that’s Faulkner. Because that’s journalism in the 21st century: Ha-haing the ignorant Republicans. Even when they’re right.<\/p>\n

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But that’s neither here nor there.<\/p>\n

What I did want to point out was that the Shakespeare speech that yielded the title of one of Faulkner’s most unreadable works (right up there with the rest of his work) is the source for the title of two Robert B. Parker novels:<\/p>\n

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
\nCreeps in this petty pace from day to day,
\nTo the last syllable of recorded time;
\nAnd all our yesterdays<\/a> have lighted fools
\nThe way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
\nLife\u2019s but a walking shadow<\/a>, a poor player,
\nThat struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
\nAnd then is heard no more. It is a tale
\nTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
\nSignifying nothing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not to mention the old Signifying Nothing<\/a> blog. And an Alistair McLean novel (The Way to Dusty Death<\/a><\/em>).<\/p>\n

But Real Important Journalists are forgiven for overlooking genre fiction and Chris Lawrence (sorry, Chris).<\/p>\n

At any rate, in researching this post, I have learned that I stopped reading in the Parkerverse, for the most part, about five or six years ago, and it looks like I am, what, fifteen or twenty behind? Well, I say behind<\/em> as though I’m planning to catch up. Which I am not–I have plenty of Executioner novels yet to read as well as finishing up the Winter Reading Challenge<\/a> and then David Copperfield<\/em> (which is not going to be the In a Different Country<\/em> category, as I am only a third of the way through it and could probably not finish it in the next two-and-a-half weeks if I tried).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Neo posts the complete Macbeth quote that includes the passage sound and fury which Faulkner later used as the title far a book. Actually, I made it through the first section of The Sound and the Fury some years after I was assigned the book in college; the first part is the disjointed bit told […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27669"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27672,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27669\/revisions\/27672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}