The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project

Seeing Rafe McCallum "coming up the alley and he crossed the street to speak to him," Charles Mallison recalls "the twin McCallum nephews" (210). This is the one named "Lucius" in "The Tall Men," where they are Buddy McCallum's sons.

Talking to Horace, Narcissa refers to her parents twice, as "my father and mother" (118) and as "our father and mother" (184), both times as part of her refusal to allow Horace to bring Ruby Lamar inside the family house in town. These are the only references to this earlier generation of Benbows.

Talking to Horace, Narcissa refers to her parents twice, as "my father and mother" (118) and as "our father and mother" (184), both times as part of her refusal to allow Horace to bring Ruby Lamar inside the family house in town. These are the only references to this earlier generation of Benbows.

When Captain Gualdres and his new bride appear in Gavin Stevens' office to say good-bye, Gualdres refers to the marriage ceremony that has just taken place by saying, "We just leave the padre" (238). Although it's not made explicit, it's extremely likely that Gualdres himself is a Catholic - but if this "padre" is a Catholic priest, this would be the only time in the Yoknapatawpha fictions that Faulkner mentions a local Catholic church.

The animals on the Harris plantation are very well attended to. There are not only "grooms" for the horses (234), but also "special human beings to wait on" the dogs (165).

While the sheriff of Yoknapatawpha never appears in person in the story, Robert Markey mentions him when he tells Gavin Stevens that "your sheriff will have to send someone" to help take Max Harriss into custody (232). Later Stevens mentions a different officer of the law when he instructs his nephew to send a message to the Memphis police that includes this phrase: "use police per request Jefferson chief if necessary” (214). While the county sheriff is a familiar character in the Yoknapatawpha fictions, there is no other mention in them of a "chief" of police.

Hampton Killegrew is "the night marshal" of Jefferson (213).

According to the narrative, the elements of the uniform worn by the pilots of the Royal Air Force - "the blue of Britain and the hooked wings of a diving falcon and the modest braid of rank: but above all the blue, the color the shade which the handful of Anglo Saxon young men had established and decreed as [a] visual synonym of glory" - became so celebrated that "an association of American haberdashers or gents' outfitters had adopted it as a trade slogan" (206).