Downed Log in Woods (Location Key)

While being pursued in Absalom! - in an episode that evokes the flight and pursuit of fugitive slaves in other fictions - the French architect who tries to run away from Sutpen's plantation throws the dogs off his trail by climbing into the trees at this point; it is at this site, "sitting on a log" while the trackers try to recover the trail, that Sutpen begins telling General Compson about his design (193).