"The Best of All Talking," Faulkner's The Bear Patterns of Manhood

Faulkner's famous story explores the paradox of a young man growing up in the "doomed wilderness," bred to virtues that modern life seems to render superfluous.  Yet in the "talk" of the hunt, the enduring story of the men who pursued the legendary bear year after year, Faulkner calls our attention to one of the ways those virtues might be preserved for our times.