Submitted by johnmcorrigan@g... on Sat, 2016-10-29 02:30
After Houston returns to Yoknapatawpha, he sometimes meets the "contemporaries" who remember him from the "youth" they shared, with whom he still occasionally gets together for "drinks or cards" (237).
Submitted by johnmcorrigan@g... on Sat, 2016-10-29 01:57
These men are the "nameless and faceless" clientele of the unnamed Galveston prostitute with whom Houston lives with for seven years. He imagines them as a "blight" upon her reproductive system, "the Babylonian interdict by heaven forever against reproduction" (236).
