William Faulkner's THE WILD PALMS AND THE OLD MAN

This is from The Wild Palms. It is near the beginning of the book and describes a party in the French Quarter of New Orleans in 1925. This party would have taken place in Pirates Alley in the house where William Spratling and William Faulkner lived in 1925. That building is now the location of the Faulkner Book House a bookstore specializing in Faulkner and Spratling and other Southern writers.
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