NPR has the story of a group of literate-minded folks who have digitized William Faulkner's lectures on literature and writing.
From the piece...
Stephen Railton, a professor of English at the university, led the effort to make Faulkner's lectures available to the public. Says Railton, "I've spent an awful lot of my life in the last decade in virtual reality, exploring the ways in which these new technologies can help us tell the story about American literature and culture."
Faulkner wrote prolifically — long, prosy sentences that filled page after page in his numerous short stories and novels. When one student asked why he wrote that way, Faulkner replied that man was "the living sum of his past."
Railton tells NPR's Mary Louise Kelly that for Faulkner, there is no such thing as "was" — that the past is always with us. Those long sentences gave Faulkner a way to indicate that any given moment in someone's life has a long history behind it.
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