Cormac McCarthy is known for prose as terse as Coolidge's and punctuation as minimal as a bikini. William Faulkner, on the other hand, took his time to express his thoughts with great verbosity. In this video, comedian Jerry Wayne Longmire plays both writers arguing about the proper density of language in narrative prose.
"The dictionary ought to charge you rent." I'm with McCarthy on this one.
This video is one of Longmire's many parodies of Faulkner, my favorite of which is his Faulknerian reading of his home electric bill. Longmire has also offered 90s rap by Faulkner, a Fourth of July celebration, discount whiskey, responding to a HOA notice, complaining about Comcast customer service, and a complaint about a clogged toilet in a hotel room.
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