It’s a nasty stewpot of intellectually untenable premises and irresponsible speculation that frequently reads like a “Saturday Night Live” parody of the crackpot right.

Let her awhile be secretly kept in, And publish it that she is dead indeed: Maintain a mourning ostentation;

Funerary feasting remained a central practice, ecclesiastified by Ercanfrida.

Most of the sketches Faulkner published in 1925 appeared in the Sunday magazine section of the New Orleans Times-Picayune.