Spoof of Bush wins Faux Faulkner contest

[ckramer]

A scathing parody that likens President Bush to the "idiot" in William Faulkner's novel The Sound and the Fury has won this year's Faulkner write-alike contest — and touched off a literary spat.

The story portrays President Bush in the role of Benjy, the mentally challenged son — or, as Faulkner himself said, the "idiot" — in his 1929 novel about the wreckage of a Southern family.

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Apple said it was also a lucky coincidence that "Condi" sounds like "Caddy," Benjy's beloved sister. Just as Benjy has an olfactory memory of Caddy (she smelled like trees), the spoofed Bush thinks of Condi: "She smelled like the Xeroxed copies of the information packets they give me each day."


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