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THE PURPOSE OF THIS NOTE IS TO IDENTIFY AND COMMENT ON A MOTIONpicture-related joke in the second chapter of William Faulkner’s Light in August. The joke, an allusion to the film comedian Joe E. Brown, occurs midway through the conversation between Byron Bunch and Lena Grove in which Byron, already in love with Lena, “though he does not yet know it” (Faulkner 55), inadvertently reveals that her runaway betrayer, Lucas Burch, has taken on the assumed name of Joe Brown. When Lena asks whether Joe Christmas’s “partner [is] named Joe too,” Byron responds with sidelong but telling skepticism:
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Founded in 1948, the Mississippi Quarterly is a refereed, scholarly journal dedicated to the life and culture of the American South, past and present. The journal is published quarterly by the College of Arts and Sciences of Mississippi State University.
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