"He writes not of the heart but of the glands"

I haven't read Faulkner in a while -- not, if memory serves, since I had to for a class in college. 

This piece on today's Slate (part of their "Book Blitz" series) has my interest re-piqued, though.  Perhaps it's time to dust off that copy of Absalom, Absalom! looking wistfully at me from my shelf.