<Every writer who is more than merely commercial, whether
he or she stays home like Faulkner or wanders like Graham
Greene, is a kind of displaced person.>>
Betsy, I think you hit it right. What complicates matters is
that such a writer has to be *both* "of it" and "outside it".
A good recipe for alienation, if not schizophrenia.
There's this picture of Faulkner by his barn in Oxford; the
writer is wearing clothes not fit for a tramp, he is
self-absorbed, he is serious, he oozes otherness (I don't
remember who photographed him, but he or she was an
artist).
Regards,
MrT
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