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The evening I saw "The Sound and the Fury (April Seventh, 1928)," the theatre company Elevator Repair Service's rendition of the first section of William Faulkner's 1929 masterpiece (at the New York Theatre Workshop), about a third of the audience left during intermission. I found this oddly gratifying, but not for the reasons that my less than enchanted fellow-theatregoers might imagine. Yes, the show, at two and a half hours, is too long. And, yes,it can, at times, be boring. But how marvellous it is to see that Faulkner's radicalism as an artist--his themes and his experimental techniques, which trounce any persistent belief you may have that the world makes sense and ...