Renaud's view from the back of the pickup as we take Wanda Coleman to William Faulkner's house.
In Mississippi, we believe that riding in the back of the truck is not illegal. A local pastime is getting some cold beer and driving around the country roads. In fact, on local channel 98, you can apparently watch a tv show which is just a camera mounted inside a pickup truck as it drives around with country music.
Faulkner was hated in Oxford, Mississippi, because he wrote unflatteringly about local people, mindsets, and race relations. But he was also a full-blown alcoholic and a raging alcoholic that smelled like horses, dogs, tabacco, and whisky. Even after he won the Nobel prize, he wasn't liked so much. His home is now a museum.
Despite the fact that there are barricades at each doorway, Renaud believes that this doesn't apply to him. In fact, we went to a Goya exhibition in Berlin last year, and Renaud (more than once) touched Goya's canvasses with his fingers.
Here renaud can be seen picking up Faulkner's whisky bottle. Afterwards, we imagined tours of our own homes after our deaths.
Nothing like strutting away from a Nobel Prize Winner's house like it was nuttin'!!!!
Caught in the Faulknerian vibe, I even mugged Wanda.
Renaud too was influenced by Faulkner.
That haze around me is "The Blues," also known as "the Southern Lights" or the "Uproaris Borealis"
Wanda Coleman and the camera man.
I love academia!!!
Wanda Coleman and Diane Price perform at the Blues symposium.
