GDG- "Pickett's Charge" NOT a misnomer

[jack]

Faulkner v American Idol?
Shudder :>)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Gennett" <k9wx at iquest.net>
To: "'GDG'" <gettysburg at arthes.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2007 10:13 AM
Subject: RE: GDG- "Pickett's Charge" NOT a misnomer


> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
>
>
> Faulkner writes about the south in this story.  But, as good literature
> should, the theme transcends the plot.  Unbelievable victory lures not 
> only
> the southern boy referenced in this paragraph, but all of us in one way or
> the other, at one time or another.  Just watch the American Idol 
> auditions.
> How can so many people without a lick of talent think they can become the
> next Idol?  Maybe this time. . . . .
>
> Regards, Tim
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com
>> [mailto:gettysburg-bounces at arthes.com] On Behalf Of jack
>> Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2007 09:36
>> To: GDG
>> Subject: Re: GDG- "Pickett's Charge" NOT a misnomer
>>
>> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
>>
>>
>> Faulkner touches, surreptitiously, on the silent tragedy that
>> haunts the South....
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Robert Lawrence" <lawrence at rwlcpa.com>
>> To: "GDG" <gettysburg at arthes.com>
>> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 2:17 PM
>> Subject: RE: GDG- "Pickett's Charge" NOT a misnomer
>>
>>
>> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
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>>
>> Well regardless of what we call it this is still the best
>> analysis of the importance of the  Charge I have run across.
>>
>> For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but
>> whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still
>> not yet two oclock on that July afternoon in 1863, the
>> brigades are in position behind the rail fence, the guns are
>> laid and ready in the woods and the furled flags are already
>> loosened to break out and Pickett himself with his long oiled
>> ringlets and his hat in one hand probably and his sword in
>> the other looking up the hill waiting for Longstreet to give
>> the word and it's all in the balance, it happened yet, it
>> hasn't even begun yet, it not only hasn't begun yet but there
>> is still time for it not to begin against that position and
>> those circumstances which made more men than Garnett and
>> Kemper and Armistead and Wilcox look grave yet it's going to
>> begin, we all know that, we have come too far with too much
>> at stake and that moment doesn't even need a
>> fourteen-year-old boy to think THIS TIME. MAYBE THIS TIME
>> with all this much to lose and all this much to
>> gain: Pennsylvania, Maryland, the world, the golden dome of
>> Washington itself to crown with desperate and unbelievable victory....
>>
>> ---William Faulkner, INTRUDER IN THE DUST (1948) pp. 194-195
>>
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