"... and Faulkner were Dunhill men."
This is one of the problems with these things I think, the pigeonhole can be roughly on target of course but it also doesn't really tell the whole story --- most pipemen have a variety of pipes from different brands, just like most of us do. Yes, Faulkner is known to have smoked Dunhills as many pictures indicate, but I think it was the case that he smoked British pipes in general, one account of a young man at the U. of Miss. in the late 50's hung out with him and recounts that he never saw Faulkner smoking a Dunhill, but only Comoy's.
Likewise, he weren't afeared of "lesser" brands either,
here's a Digby that he owned:
http://www.pbagalleries.com/view-auctions/catalog/id/47/lot/10679/Tobacco-pipe-owned-and-smoked-by-William-Faulkner
The pictured pipe in this article doesn't appear to have a White Spot,
and it appears very much loved:
http://www.ecu.edu/cs-admin/news/southernwriters.cfm#.V0s8SJErLIW
Same with his specific tobacco of choice, you can't really pin it down, he liked: Dunhill 965 and My Mixture A10528, Balkan Sobranie, St. Bruno, Prince Albert...and even home-blending as stated here:
W.F. claimed that his favorite tobacco was "blended for me by Dunhill in London when I was about 19 or 20 years old and I've been smoking it ever since" - John Falkner points out that "Bill liked variety in his pipe tobacco. He would blend it differently at times to get a new taste and every time he would go into a pipe shop he'd buy several selections of ready-mixed tobacco. He would smoke from one can and then another, like a man trying different foods at each meal."
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His favorite typewriters:
Royal KHM
Remington Noiseless desktop
1930s Underwood portable
A favorite quote of mine...
“...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.”
― William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury
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