While buying drinks legally in New York City, Ratliff mentions "Uncle Cal Bookwright's springhouse back home" in Yoknapatawpha (190). A "springhouse" is a small building constructed over a spring; since spring water can be cool even in summer, springhouses were typically where milk or other dairy products could be kept. Uncle Cal's springhouse is presumably where he makes his moonshine whisky - what Stevens calls Bookwright's "stuff" (190) - or at least where he keeps in cool.
The "Old Frenchman place" is the antebellum plantation after which Frenchman's Bend is named. Although no characters ever seem to remember the name of the man who built it, in several other texts the narrative identifies his as Louis Grenier. Before the Civil War it was one of the largest and most prosperous plantations in Yoknapatawpha, but its owner and almost all his family disappeared during the war and the house began falling into decay.
Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Thu, 2017-10-26 12:22
During the Spanish Civil War, the "Loyalists" with whom Linda and Kohl serve were the left-leaning partisans who fought for the Republic against Francisco Franco and his fascist supporters.
Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Thu, 2017-10-26 12:11
An unnamed "newspaper man" and his partner - "a young couple about the same age as them" (191) - are going to occupy Barton and Linda's apartment once they leave for Spain.
Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Thu, 2017-10-26 12:09
At the wedding reception in Kohl's studio apartment, Ratliff notes the "two waiters dodging in and out with trays of glasses of champagne," but adds that "three or four" of the guests were "helping too" (191).
Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Thu, 2017-10-26 12:08
Ratliff identifies most of the guests at the Kohls' wedding reception as "poets and painters and sculptors and musicians" (191), but seems to think the man who recognizes the necktie he is wearing as an "Allanova" must be "a haberdasher taking Saturday evening off" (192).
Submitted by ben.robbins@fu-... on Thu, 2017-10-26 12:03
A Yoknapatawpha moonshiner. According to Gavin Stevens, the "stuff [he] used to make" tasted "jest like" Bushmill's, a well-known brand of Irish whiskey (190). We are assuming he is the same Calvin Bookwright/Bookright who appears in two other novels.
