I learned from Evans Harrington that one of the truly great pleasures of reading Faulkner comes in pausing over, and savoring, some of the character descriptions.
In The Hamlet, when Mink Snopes' cow is impounded as a result of a failed attempt to have Jack Houston winter it free, Mink becomes outraged and kills Houston from ambush. At his trial, Mink is defended by "a young man graduated only last June from the State University's law school and admitted to the Bar, who did what he could and overdid what he could not . . . ."
With such an attorney, it should come as no surprise that Mink was rather quickly convicted and sent to prison.
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