Q: What’s the source of “the sound and fury, title of the heavyweight boxing rematch between Evander Holyfield and mike Tyson?
A: It is a direct take from william faulkner’s the sound and the fury (1929), a novel about the decadent Compson family of jefferson, Mississippi. Partly narrated by 30-yrs-old idiot Benjy, It describes his neurotic parents, his nymphomaniac sister caddy and his brother Quentin, who commits suicide tormented by incestuous feelings. But the phrase is not original to Faulkner; he picked it up from Macbeth, one of the shakespheare’s best-loved tragedies:
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frest his hour upon stage
and then is heard no more: it is a tale
told by an idiot, Full of sound and fury.
Signifying nothing.
BIG DEAL?? Did you know that the longest gloved fight on record took place in New Orleans on April 6-7, 1893, between two americans, Andy Bowen and Jack Burke. It lasted 7 hours and 19minutes. At the End of the 110th round, the fight was declared a no-contest ( later changed to draw) because both boxers were too exhausted to continue.
Jack Burke Andy Bowen
WORD WATCH! Kasado : From spanish casado, “married”
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