I think that one's not bad in theory but the costume and basket of the
woman says "European peasant" to me and not "1920s US south".
Scans - we want the 1930 edition. Does the 1935 edition also have a 1930
copyright date? If not then we can't use it, and we can't use that
transcription either unless we confirm it matches a 1930 edition. If
everything is fine but there are no scans then just omit them from the
metadata and text.
Spacing, em space is fine, it's not possible to perfectly duplicate
print layout so we just have to get close enough.
On 10/19/25 1:03 AM, Erin wrote:
> I see what you mean. I've been looking for a more interesting horse
> painting, but a non-horse option could be the following at the
> Smithsonian:
https://www.si.edu/object/twilight-after-rain:saam_1913.3.3
> <
https://www.si.edu/object/twilight-after-rain:saam_1913.3.3>; and see
> the mock-up attached.
> The relevance is that the family travels by wagon and encounters serious
> problems due to heavy rainfall. In the painting there is water on the
> road and marks that we could imagine to have been made by wheels. The
> figure approaching the house could represent the woman finally reaching
> her home-town.
>
> If you aren't keen on it, no problem, I'll keep searching.
>
> A couple of other questions:
>
> 1. Concerning scans. I was finally able to get a copy of the Vintage
> edition from the library, and as mentioned in the PD day thread its
> verso page suggests that it's a reprint of the 1935 Chatto & Windus
> edition, which was used by the FP transcribers. These borrowable scans
> at IA <
https://archive.org/details/asilaydying0000unse> are of a New
> York Random House edition that was corrected, according to the verso
> page: "The corrections in this edition are based on a collation, under
> the direction of James B. Meriwether, of the first edition and
> Faulkner’s original manuscript and typescript." Because of this I assume
> we can't link to these scans. If so, do we just omit any link to scans
> in the metadata?
>
> 2. Concerning unconventional spacing, pictured below, in the American
> scans here <
https://archive.org/details/asilaydying0000unse/page/174/
> mode/1up> (and the same in the Vintage print edition). Something similar
> occurred also in The Sound and the Fury. There we used one em space
> throughout and that seemed appropriate; see p. 81 here <https://
>
archive.org/details/soundfury0000will_y1s9/page/81/mode/1up> for an
> example. But one em space doesn't seem to be enough here to replicate
> the proportion of the line that each of these longer spaces takes up.
> Can or should we use more than one em space in these instances?
>
> Screenshot 2025-10-19 at 11.51.14 am.png
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, 16 Oct 2025 at 07:04, Alex Cabal <
al...@standardebooks.org
> <mailto:
al...@standardebooks.org>> wrote:
>
> Although as art, I don't think that horse painting is especially good.
> Is there a better, maybe more dramatic, or at least more interesting
> horse painting you can find?
>
> On 10/15/25 4:03 PM, Alex Cabal wrote:
> > Of those choices I think the horse is the best. We don't do black
> and
> > white covers so the black and white fish is out, and other fish
> would be
> > obscured by the title box.
> >
> > On 10/15/25 1:00 AM, Erin wrote:
> >> I'm currently searching for cover art. The book follows the
> family of
> >> a woman from rural Mississippi as they attempt to transport a
> coffin
> >> containing her body back to her hometown.
> >>
> >> There is an important plot point involving a horse, which
> explains the
> >> cover of the Vintage edition <
https://www.penguin.co.uk/
> books/356600/ <
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/356600/>
> >> as- i-lay-dying-by-william-faulkner/9781446485514>. There is
> also an
> >> important plot point involving a barn. So the artwork "The Earl of
> >> Coventry's Horse" from the DB might work: https://
>
standardebooks.org/ <
https://standardebooks.org/>
> >> artworks/benjamin-marshall/the-earl-of-coventrys-horse
> >>
> >> Another idea is a fish, such as this <
https://www.metmuseum.org/
> art/ <
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/>
> artworks/195635- <
https://www.nga.gov/artworks/195635->
> >> english-cod> painting by William Merritt Chase. One of the most
> famous
> >> things about the book is the chapter that consists of the line "My
> >> mother is a fish.", thought by the youngest child in the family.
> >> Presumably leading up to this, there are scenes involving an actual
> >> fish in earlier chapters.
> >>
> >> What do you think?
> >>
> >> Other obvious options would be wagons or rural Mississippi. I
> haven't
> >> had much luck with those yet but if neither the horse nor fish
> works
> >> I'll keep looking. Coffins don't seem to be a popular subject
> for oil
> >> paintings.
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