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Under the spell of a generator's thrum, a Faulkner masterpiece was born

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imageIn order to support his young family, William Faulkner took a job shoveling coal at a power plant on Ole Miss's campus.Mussklprozz/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

A few hundred feet south of the University of Mississippi’s famed Grove – site of bucolic commencement ceremonies and college football’s most unique tailgating experience...

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