Unnamed Four or Five Boys

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2413
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Unnamed Four or Five Boys
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Unnamed Four or Five Boys
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
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This is the group of "four or five other boys of [Quentin's] size and age" in Absalom! who go out to the decaying Sutpen mansion "daring one another to evoke the ghost, since it would have to be haunted" (172). The group includes Luster; the other boys are not described, but all run away when confronted by Clytemnestra among the "rotting piles" of the old slave quarters (173).