This will probably only make sense to IB people.

On the subject of As I Lay Dying:

brooksmoses: I don't think I've read that one, anyway.
Me: Does the phrase 'My mother is a fish' mean anything to you?
brooksmoses: No.
Me: Then you haven't read it.

(We got to Faulkner through discussing my Huge Tracts of Angst, appropriately enough. :P )