... Leaves. Poor leadership and corrup­ tion from without are issues there. But the most impressive of these tales, A Justice, recounts the story of the last and worst of these chieftains, the one called Doom once he becomes the tribal patriarch, but known before as Ikkemotubbe. Other stories in this set...

... of in the communal anonymity of brotherhood, and their misuse of human beings over whom they had power through possession of the land. Carothers McCaslin could no more buy the land from Ikkemotubbe, the Indian who had once owned it, than one of Carothers slaves could, because on the instant when Ikkemotubbe...

... in races against the horses of Ikkemotubbe s young men which he, Compson, was always care­ ful to limit to a quarter or at most three furlongs; and in the next year it was Ikkemotubbe who owned the little mare and Compson owned the solid square mile of land . . . still forested twenty years later, though...

... Buddy s to bequeath to me to re­ pudiate, because it was never Grandfather s to bequeath them to bequeath me to repudiate, because it was never old Ikkemotubbe s to sell Grandfather for bequeathment and repudiation. What Faulkner is attempting here is truly monumental: having created a character who...