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Tuesday, January 30, 2007

"Flem Snopes is running Tuscaloosa."

Here's a man after UD's own heart -- a literate and witty columnist in Mississippi who knows how to think about Saban and Alabama:

There is a reason that you pay attention to serious fiction writers. Sometimes they are ahead of the curve and like John on the Isle of Patmos, where he penned Revelation, they warn us in poetic and dramatic ways of ills to come. Mississippi, last in almost everything to do with money, is pretty much first in the written word and one William Faulkner saw this thing coming. In a number of novels he talked of the Snopes clan, a greedy breed of rapacious and oveweening- gain- at- all -cost folks come to power after the civil war. In Faulkner's imagination, they were the ones who would do anything to win, fairness and honor be especially damned.

Flem Snopes is running Tuscaloosa.