Texas in As I Lay Dying (Location)

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Texas
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OutOfYoknapatawpha
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Text (when unambiguous)
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2288
Y: 
1025
Description: 

Texas is mentioned in the novel when Moseley finds out that Dewey Dell is pregnant; refusing to help her abort the fetus, he tells her to marry the man who impregnated her - "if he aint halfway to Texas by now, which I dont doubt" (202). 'Texas' is defined this way in about a dozen of the Yoknapatawpha fictions: as the place men run away to when they've done something shameful or criminal.

Role: 
Only Mentioned in Text
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Continuous
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State

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