Here
is an example of Faulkner's handwriting from the manuscript (the first page of
Quentin's section, June 2, 1910). 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.