Does anyone read Faulkner for enjoyment?

This article recommends giving Faulkner a second, third, and fourth chance, and also brings up a good question: Did Faulkner mean to torture us?  No, says this author.  Even "difficult" fiction is, at the end of the day, poetry and wisdom offered up for our enjoyment - just perhaps a harder-won enjoyment.

Reading William Faulkner: Closely and repeatedly, ideally

Manifestos!

I had a lot of fun looking up manifestos for your Do Now.  I highly encourage you to read these, you do not want to miss lines like:  "We thought it was dead, my good shark, but I woke it with a single caress of its powerful back, and it was revived running as fast as it could on its fins."

http://www.tcf.ua.edu/Classes/Jbutler/T340/SurManifesto/ManifestoOfSurrealism.htm
http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/T4PM/futurist-manifesto.html
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~jenglish/English104/tzara.html