And could you imagine that I am a Belgian, Pieanne?

I will check for the golden coin right now!!! Thank you

Merci, Chere Amie, So you mean 'below the belt' is a sort of low hit, and 'Under the belt' means experience or a kind of 'vécu' as you say. Thank You.

Hello, Would you mind to tell me, if these two expressions are synonyms?

Hello, Miche, Your diagram is very helpful, but I think we should add another element which is Henry's attachment to this abstract conception of pride that makes him go through such a paiful dual feeling of being the lover and the mistress,

Thanks Miche, you are great, if our hypothetical interpretation of the first scentence is true, then how should we understand the second sentence( considering that earlier in the novel, Faulkner elaborates the complex relationship existing between

Hello again, I am not convinced that he is using 'quantity' instead of quality(this is Faulkner), and secondly I believe that, here Faulkner means Henry's pride must depend upon the loss(which is durable and permanent ) of the virginity to find

Hello Miche, Thanks for your effort, but what I don't understand is why the pride is considered as a quantity, and does Faulkner mean that since the pride(false quantity) depends upon the sister's virginity, and would be lost with its loss,

Thank You Young Californian, first, I must say that 'much' in third line is a typo and it is'must', even though Idon't understand how the pride is considered as a quantity, how this quantity incorporates an inability to endure, and how this

Hello everybody This is a passage from Absalom, Absalom by Faulkner, and I have some difficulties to grasp the whole content, would you mind to give me a hand, and help me to understand it: ‘-Henry, the provincial, the clown almost, given to