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Hello, I'm David Kern.

I'm Heidi White.

And I'm Tim McIntosh.

And you were listening to Close Reads, a podcast for the Incurable Reader on which we

are discussing William Faulkner's as they lay dying.

A book that for some of you seems to be becoming increasingly more appealing and for others

of you seems to be curing you of that incurable love of reading.

So we're going to dig into the second quarter of the book or so.

We're going to finish right about the time

they're trying to cross the river we get the chapter on jewel and the horse that's kind of the end

of this section so a lot has happened a lot of complicated images are dropped into these passages

lots to talk about.

Before we do that, though, Tim, I've got an important question for you.

Heidi, all, if you'd like to address this question as well, you may.

But let's just give Tim to the floor on this first.

Tim, this Sunday is Super Bowl Sunday.

Yes, it is.

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