1. William Faulkner, Mosquitoes (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927), pp. 106-7.

2. Eudora Welty, "Place in Fiction," The Eye of the Story (New York: Random House, 1978), pp. 119-19; Malcolm Cowley, "Introduction," The Potable Faulkner (1946; New York: Viking, 1951), p. 5.

3. William T. Ruzicka, Faulkner's Fictive Architecture: The Meaning of Place in the Yoknapatawpha Novels (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1987), p. 2. This short, insightful analysis by a literary scholar focuses on the neoclassical architecture in Faulkner's novels. Besides my own work, Ruzicka's is virtually the only other study that treats the subject at all.

4. Joel Williamson, William Faulkner and Southern History (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), P. 413.

5. Hayden White, "The Fictions of Factual Representation," Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978), p. 122; Erik H. Erikson, "Psychological Reality and Historical Actuality," Insight and Responsibility: Lectures on the Ethical Implications of Psychoanalytic Insight (New York: W. W. Norton, 1964), p. 159.

6. Faulkner, "Monk," Knight's Gambit (1949; New York: Vintage Books, 1978), p. 39; Faulkner, The Town (1957; New York: Vintage Books, 1961), p. 88.

7. Elizabeth M. Kerr, Yoknapatawpha: Faulkner's "Little Postage Stamp of Native Soil " (New York: Fordham University Press, 1969), p. 11, quoting Faulkner from Frederick L. Gwynn and Joseph Blotner, eds., Faulkner in the University (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1959), p. 84.

8. Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space (Boston: Beacon Press, 1969), p. 8; Faulkner, Sartoris (1929; New York: Signet, 1957), p. 74.

9. Conversation with Patricia Brown Young, Oxford, Mississippi, May 8, 1995; for a slightly different version, see Magee Brown, "Hunt Breakfast, Faulkner Style," in James w. Webb and A. Wigfall Green, eds., William Faulkner of Oxford (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1965), pp. 122-23.