He began looking over papers. Already, he was associating names with faces, with personalities. It was the second week of classes, but his Faulkner class was a small one by University standards, eighteen students all told. On the very first day of class, he had assigned them the first of the Snopes books, The Hamlet, thinking that he would slowly work them into monuments like Sound And The Fury and Absolom, Absolom! They were to have a short paper in by the beginning of the second week, without referring to critics or outside references. He'd told them that his main concern was their personal reaction to the book, to Faulkner.
He started reading the first one on the pile. It belonged to Brenda Wood, who had struck him as being exceptionally perceptive. Some of her comments had been astute
