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writer William Faulkner died of a heart attack in Mississippi at age sixty-four. “The first fact of the day,” wrote William Styron in an account of Faulkner’s funeral in Oxford, Mississippi, “aside from that final fact of a death which has so diminished us, is the heat, and it is a heat which is like a small mean death itself, as if one were being smothered to extinction in a damp woolen overcoat.” Styron described Oxford that day as a city drowned in “a heat so desolating to the body and spirit as to have the quality of a half-remembered dream, until one realizes that it has, indeed, been ...more
The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
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