My relationship with Mr. Faulkner did not get off on the best footing. The first book I picked up of his was The Sound and the Fury. I sure wish I had known before I started that Benjy, the narrator of The Sound and the Fury, is intellectually disabled. If I had realized what Faulkner was up to, I might have read more of him from the get-go. But at the time, I was so frustrated trying to make heads or tails of what Benjy was wishing to convey, I threw the book across the room.
