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In bed, Isaac tells McCaslin about the buck, and McCaslin speculates that it represented some form of indomitable, primal energy that grows up out of the earth from all the blood that seeps into it and all the lives it absorbs.
Isaac thinks that McCaslin does not believe him, that he is accusing him of claiming to have seen a ghost ; but McCaslin tells him solemnly that he, too, has seen the buck: Sam took him into that same clearing the day he killed his first deer.

McCaslin and him
* The Mary McCaslin song The Ballad of Weaverville gives a fictional account of the town's name as being that of a gambler, Jim Weaver, who had the town named after him as his final bet, after winning all of the town's gold.
When Isaac is deemed old enough to go on the yearly hunting expeditions with Major de Spain, General Compson, and Isaac's older cousin McCaslin Edmonds, he kills his first buck, and Sam Fathers ritualistically anoints him with its blood.
His father betrays him, just as Carothers McCaslin betrays Turl ( letting him be raised as a slave, leaving him a bequest only after he dies ), and probably for the same reason: the mixed racial status of the child.
McCaslin tries to argue with him, but Isaac remembers looking through the old ledger books of Uncle Buck and Uncle Buddy and piecing together the story of the plantation's slaves, and he refuses the inheritance.

McCaslin and who
Aames and McCaslin had a daughter, Harleigh Jean Upton, who is now an actress, appearing in the series The Missy Files and The Public Life of Sissy Pike.
The most prominent character and unifying voice is that of Isaac McCaslin, " Uncle Ike ", who will live to be an old man ; " uncle to half a county and father to no one.
This story takes place in the childhood of McCaslin Edmonds, who is simply referred to as " the boy " and is understood to be the object of all masculine pronouns.
Uncle Buck and Sophonsiba Beauchamp eventually marry and become the parents of Isaac McCaslin, the central character who serves to unify most of the stories in the novel.
Many generations later ( around 1941 ) Lucas Beauchamp, the son of Tomey's Turl and Tennie, lives and works on the McCaslin plantation, now owned by Carothers " Roth " Edmonds, the grandson of McCaslin Edmonds ( who is Isaac's elder cousin, and Lucas ' as well ).
Just as McCaslin is raised by his uncles and Isaac is raised by McCaslin, Sam Fathers is raised by his mother and a man who is not his father.
But he renounces it in favor of his cousin ( once-removed ) McCaslin Edmonds, who is practically his father.
( One of Isaac's inferences is particularly appalling: Tomey, the slave who Carothers McCaslin took as a lover and the mother of Turl, may also have been Carothers McCaslin's daughter by another slave, Eunice.
It involves a young boy named Lucius Priest ( a distant cousin of the McCaslin / Edmonds family Faulkner wrote about in Go Down, Moses ) who accompanies a family friend named Boon Hogganbeck to Memphis, where Boon hopes to woo a prostitute called " Miss Corrie ".
They discover that Ned McCaslin, a black man who works with Boon at Lucius's grandfather's horse stables, has stowed away with them ( Ned is also a blood cousin of the Priests ).

McCaslin and those
As McCaslin Edmonds notes in theorizing about the spirit-buck, life is always too short for those living it and always diffuses itself into its environment.

tells and him
She tells him of the consequences of his behavior.
But slowly they take over as Alain Delon ( Life, Sept. 15 ), playing a sometimes appealing but always criminal boy, casually tells a rich and foot-loose American that he is going to murder him, then does it even while the American is trying to puzzle out how Delon expects to profit from the act.
Rambert informs Tarrou of his escape plan, but when Tarrou tells him that others in the city, including Dr. Rieux, also have loved ones outside the city whom they are not allowed to see, Rambert becomes sympathetic and changes his mind.
Grand tells Rieux that he married while still in his teens, but overwork and poverty took their toll ( Grand did not receive the career advancement that he had been promised ), and his wife Jeanne left him.
What interests him, he tells Rieux, is how to become a saint, even though he does not believe in God .</ br > Later in the novel, Tarrou tells Rieux, with whom he has become friends, the story of his life.
A popular legend, originating from 12th century chronicles, tells how when he first fled to the Somerset Levels, Alfred was given shelter by a peasant woman who, unaware of his identity, left him to watch some cakes she had left cooking on the fire.
God speaks to Amos, a farmer and herder, and tells him to go to Samaria, the capital of the Northern kingdom.
In the Iliad his father Zeus tells him that he is the god most hateful to him.
A contemporary report tells that Thorkell the Tall attempted to save Ælfheah from the mob about to kill him by offering them everything he owned except for his ship, in exchange for Ælfheah's life ; Thorkell's presence is not mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, however.
Fredrika tells Anne of Henrik's secret love, and the two dash off searching for him.
The clumsy boy cannot complete the task, and Anne tells him that she has feelings for him, too.
The scheming Comptroller Schub, tells her that he has a plan to save her administration, and the town, promising “ It's highly unethical .” He tells her to meet him at the rock on the edge of town.
She tells him the world needs people like him, and Hapgood can't turn himself in.
Hysterium, desperate to keep him out of the house where his master is bathing, tells the old man that his house has become haunted — a story seemingly confirmed by the sound of Senex singing in his bath.
Christine tells Krogstad that she only married her husband because she had no other means to support her sick mother and young siblings, and that she has returned to offer him her love again.
Nora tells Torvald that she is leaving him to live alone so she can find out who she is and what she believes and decide what to do with her life.
Of its four stanzas, Housman tells us that two were ' given ' him ready made ; one was coaxed forth from his subconsciousness an hour or two later ; the remaining one took months of conscious composition.
He came from a Christian family, despite accounts to the contrary, as in his writings he tells more than once of an aunt who taught him some principles of the Christian faith, and a father who did the same, as well as mentioning ( once ) his mother doing the same.
In the episode " Drones ", Beavis mentions something taking place " after Daria killed herself " and Butt-head incredulously tells him that Daria did not die but merely moved to a different city.
Odin rides to Hel and awakens a seeress, who tells him Höðr will kill Baldr but Vali will avenge him ( stanzas 9, 11 ).

tells and write
Hildegard also tells us that Jutta taught her to read and write, but that she was unlearned and therefore incapable of teaching Hildegard Biblical interpretation.
Specifically, the table tells the machine to ( ia ) erase or write a symbol or ( ib ) move the head left or right, and then ( ii ) assume the same or a new state as prescribed, but not both actions ( ia ) and ( ib ) in the same instruction.
His account tells of Isaac Newton's absorption in his studies, how he sometimes forgot his food, or his sleep, or the state of his clothes, and how when he took a walk in his garden he would sometimes rush back to his room with some new thought, not even waiting to sit before beginning to write it down.
The word also appears in Sumerian texts ; for instance, in the lost book, when Enki tells his master scribe ( Edubsar ) to write down all that he says, the text mentions a stylus of electrum with a crystal at the tip that glowed.
She tells how Akhmatova would write out her poem for a visitor on a scrap of paper to be read in a moment, then burnt in her stove.
A three-issue miniseries entitled The Krypton Chronicles, published in 1981, tells of Superman researching his roots when, as Clark Kent, he was assigned to write an article about Superman's family by an assignment editor impressed with the television miniseries Roots.
He tells the young man who once left his post that he will write and tell the boy's parents that he did his duty ; the critically injured young man smiles and passes away peacefully.
The people he tells about this write him off as paranoid, but eventually every machine in his house ( including his car ) turns on him.
He tells us that his friends at Gray's Inn importuned him to write on Latin themes set by them, and there two of his plays were acted.
Jordanes tells us in Getica that he interrupted work on the Romana to write Getica, and then finished Romana.
In 1956 he began to write down his World War II notes for The Longest Day: June 6, 1944 D-Day, which tells the story of the D-Day Invasion of Normandy, published three years later in 1959.
When her parents see her report card, they prompt her to see Mr Neck ( Robert John Burke ), who tells her to write an essay on any history topic.
* The song titled " Shalott " by Emilie Autumn tells the poem from her own perspective, where she quotes the Lady of Shalott as saying " But then, I could have guessed it all along, ' cause now some drama queen is gonna write a song for me.
Hill tells us to write out our definite chief aim, in clear, simple language and read it nightly before retiring.
It tells where to start the read / write operation.
The book The Secrets of Dellschau by Dennis Crenshaw and Pete Navarro tells the story of Dellschau and of the secrets the authors write that he hid within his artwork.
Other attributes have the file's record size ( if fixed for commercial applications ), the block size ( in multiples of records that tells the MCP how many records to read and write in a single physical IO ) and an area size in multiples of blocks, which gives the size of disk areas to be allocated as the file expands.
He is regarded as an expert on poker psychology and behavior and would later go on to write his own seminal book on tells.
Their leader, Nicodemus, tells Mrs. Frisby of the rats ' capture by scientists working for a laboratory located at the National Institute of Mental Health ( NIMH ) and the subsequent experiments that the humans performed on the rats, which increased the rats ' intelligence to the point of being able to read, write, and operate complicated machines, as well as enhancing their longevity and strength.
James T. Kirk tells Edith Keeler that " a hundred years or so from now ", a famous novelist will write a classic using the theme " Let me help " and indicates that he will come from " a planet circling that far left star in Orion's belt.
He then tells MacDonald to write a note to Barker, advising that the moat will be drained to search for evidence.
Holmes also cunningly gets the elder Cunningham to write the word " twelve ", which appears on the scrap of paper recovered from the murder scene, by deliberately making a mistake in an advertisement that Holmes tells Cunningham to publish, and asking him to correct it.
While his girlfriend is out of town in Los Angeles, Pearl sleeps with a coworker and tells her that he is going to write a book about Leland.
" Gummy: The Sixth Roommate " tells the true story of how David dropped out of the film to play the lead part in a Woody Allen movie in Paris that got canceled before production, and Apatow would not write him back into his script.

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