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Would we feel the same way about Faulkner’s “Intruder in the Dust” if it were called, as he once considered, “Malpractice in the Dust”?

He begins with “Intruder in the Dust” and one character’s striking reverie about the moments before the ill-fated charge that led to the Confederate defeat at Gettysburg.

Just a few years before a New York editor rejected Go Set A Watchman, William Faulkner, from the neighboring state of Mississippi, published Intruder in the Dust, another tale of a black man unjustly accused of murder who is saved by a couple of courageous whites who discover the real killer.

To explain the evolution of his thinking since then, Deeds first quoted a passage from William Faulkner’s “Intruder in the Dust.”

“The American really loves nothing but his automobile,” Gavin Stevens says in Faulkner’s Intruder in the Dust.