Spoof of Bush Wins Faux Faulkner Contest

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/faux_faulkner;_ylt=AvyySpVaI93mjg_Yyt.Ksaes0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3ODdxdHBhBHNlYwM5NjQ-


A scathing parody that likens
President Bush to the "idiot" in William Faulkner's novel "The Sound and the Fury" has won this year's Faulkner write-alike contest — and touched off a literary spat.

Organizers of the Faux Faulkner competition are accusing Hemispheres, the United Airlines magazine that has sponsored the contest for six years, of playing politics by not putting Sam Apple's "The Administration and the Fury" in its print edition — only on its Web site.

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Apple, a 29-year-old writer for Nerve magazine in New York, planned to be in Oxford this weekend to read his parody aloud at the 32nd annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference at the University of Mississippi.

Hemispheres editor Randy Johnson said politics played no role in the handling of Apple's winning entry. The magazine published "The Administration and the Fury" only online, he said, because Hemispheres is trying to bring more attention to its Web site. Plus, he said, Apple's parody already had been published earlier this year in the online magazine Slate.
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the article ends with:

Apple said it was also a lucky coincidence that "Condi" sounds like "Caddy," Benjy's beloved sister. Just as Benjy has an olfactory memory of Caddy (she smelled like trees), the spoofed Bush thinks of Condi: "She smelled like the Xeroxed copies of the information packets they give me each day."

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1. Link to Parody

http://hemispheresmagazine.com/fiction/2005/faulkner.htm