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wisp

You need to be very careful about using passages from advanced literary works as the basis for definitions. There are usually several layers of meaning involved, with some license taken in order to have the secondary connotations of different words play off of each other in complex ways. They also tend to omit supporting words to avoid diluting the impact of the important words. Such passages start from ordinary usage, but aren't reliabily examples of it. Whether either of us is right about this passage- or neither- you need to have other usage to bsck it up, because a single ambiguous use in a single work isn't enough evidence to create a definition with. Chuck Entz (talk) 21:32, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

And here is another opinion from someone more knowledgable about Faulkner's writing. Chuck Entz (talk) 21:43, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

I see you changed the definition. The new definition fits this single passage, but my version has support in Google Books, too, in passages describing ghosts or mists. It may be possible to merge them, or to add another sense. By the way: in the Faulkner passage, the gun is a phallic symbol, and "wisping thinly" is used to set up an image of weakness and impotence to play against the overt sexual violence about to take place. Like I said, this kind of passage is too ambiguous and complex to base an entire sense on by itself. Chuck Entz (talk) 23:21, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

underlife

You need to be much more careful in your editing. Please look at the changes I have made to this page in detail. Important points are that pages should be lowercase unless they always begin with an uppercase letter (like Rome), and factual matters must always be exact; giving the wrong year for when a book is written (and an incomplete title) is very sloppy. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 02:32, 25 May 2016 (UTC)

Quotations

Please use #*: for the second line of quotations, or put them on one line with {{quote-book}}. DTLHS (talk) 23:53, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

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