“Now I want you to tell me just one thing more. Why do you hate the South?”

— William Faulkner, book Absalom, Absalom!

"I dont hate it," Quentin said, quickly, at once, immediately; "I dont hate it," he said. I dont hate it he thought, panting in the cold air, the iron New England dark: I dont. I dont! I dont hate it! I dont hate it!

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Absalom, Absalom! (1936)

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