As he is about to embark on his quest to help Lucas, Chick recalls what he has heard about the men who hunted game "in Yoknapatawpha County within twelve miles of Jefferson" (90). The place he is thinking of is almost certainly what Faulkner elsewhere calls "the big woods," the old growth forest along the river in the northwest corner of the county where he sets his hunting stories like "The Bear."
Submitted by tmtowner@utdall... on Thu, 2015-06-25 17:39
Mons, Belgium, was the site of the first engagement of the British and German forces in World War I. One of Britain's military honors during the war was the Mons Star, an award for combat service that was given to troops who served in France or Belgium between August and November 1914. In "All the Dead Pilots," Spoomer has a Mons Star but not the full wings of a pilot.
