Maybe my hero William Faulkner just ain’t what America wants. Seems like Oprah’s touch is back. Publishers Weekly is reporting that Vintage announced 85,000 copies of James Frey’s A Million Little Pieces since Oprah’s endorsement was announced 4 days ago.
Maybe if Faulkner had been cutting up lines “on a bevel” instead of coffins, he would have gone over better.
From “As I Lay Sniffing” –
CASH
Except.
A line of blow is not square like a crosstie.
Animal magnetism.
The animal magnetism of a line of blow makes the stress come slanting, so the sides and edges of a line are made on the bevel.
You can see by an old coke-besmirched CD case that the coke sinks down on the bevel.
While on the surface of a mirror it sinks by the center, the stress being up-and-down.
So I chopped it on the bevel.
It makes a neater line.