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Hello, I'm David Kern.

I'm Heidi White.

And I'm Tim McIntosh.

And you are listening to Close Reads, a podcast for the incurable reader on which we are discussing William Faulkner's

As I Lay Dying, which is about a lot of incurable people as well. Now that I think about it,

we're going to discuss the final quarter of this book. I guess that means we can talk about

the whole book now. We can talk about the book as one cohesive whole. We've come to the end of Adelae dying and that means we've got lots to

unpack, lots to unpack. We have some plot to unpack. We've got some ants distaste to unpack,

some POV stuff to unpack. And then next week, of course, we're

going to answer your questions. So if you have a question for us that you would like us to

address on the podcast, you can email me. You can send that to David at goldberrybooks.com,

or you can post it over on our Facebook page. That is, of course, facebook.com slash close reads.

And we'll have a thread there where you can leave a comment and we'll get to as many as we

can as we usually do when we get to the end of a book. Tim, right before we actually hit record,

you said, and I quote, I'm saving my raves of this book for when we actually record.

End quote.

That could, of course, mean that you have, like, you want to rave like a mad person,

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