Sentence:  Faulkner 's total works today , and in fact those of his works which existed in 1946 when Mr. Cowley made his <WSD>comment</WSD> , or in 1939 , when Mr. O' Donnell wrote his essay , reveal no such simple attitude toward the South . 
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