Here is an example of Faulkner's handwriting from the manuscript (the first page of Benjy's section, April 7, 1928, which was originally a short story entitled "Twilight"). Notice the large left margins, which he used - remarkably infrequently - for corrections and additions. Faulkner's biographer, Frederick R. Karl, believes Faulkner's handwriting and personality are consistent with each other. He writes: "[Faulkner] was compulsively neat, careful, and accurate - his handwriting suggests a completely hermetic individual, and the numbering as well as care in his manuscripts and typescripts indicate a person who hates to give anything of himself, very close to what Freud defined as the classic anal personality" (Frederick R. Karl, William Faulkner: American Writer, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, New York: 1989. p. 227-228.). Click the image to see a bigger version.