A question posed to Faulkner during one of his University of Virginia lectures:
Unidentified participant: Why do you use violence so often in your novels in trying to depict this truth? [The truth being, according to Faulkner, "that man will prevail, will endure because he is capable of compassion and honor and pride and endurance."]
William Faulkner: Well, that’s the—the carpenter that—that thinks that the ax is a better tool to use than a hammer. He could be wrong, but he’s using what seemed to him the best tool to [properly] build what he wants to build.
How crude. Hadn’t either of these guys ever heard of staples and glue?
Maybe wheatpaste?
We tend to use rice-based adhesives in Boulder, Ben. Usually organic brown, but sometimes the exotics, especially in our more upscale construction projects.
BTW, have I told you about our new line of bio-degradable staples?
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