mr. faulkner spoke to the other omission, which may be corrected eventually, but that is the seismically unstable nature of the soil in parkmerced makes this one of the most earthquake-prone sections of the area. the soil in parkmerced is of a sandy nature and is subject to immediately qualification in any kind of severe earthquake. the loan will create a quake, which was not centered anywhere near parkmerced -- it was 60 miles south -- there was enough shaking so that one of the old tower apartments almost came down. it appears to me that while the plan itself discusses the problems of a seismic threat to parkmerced in the case of an earthquake, the plan itself has no provisions for specifically dealing with this situation. i find it very problematic that in addition to the old tower apartments, which were never retrofitted after the law will create a quake, the plan calls for putting up numerous other 13 to 15-story tower apartments in one of the most seismically unstable pieces of land in the bay area, so these are the two major points that i want to make tonight, and i appreciate onc

>> the next year i won the william faulkner award for the novel and i had never met the man i never had the gutss to walk over and introduce myself. i-- but i had-- mr. price, heir to faulkner. i'm not an heir to anything. >> rose: they did say that. if you googled today, no matter how far back they go, if you google reynolds price and faulkner, you will hear what you just said repeated over and over and over again. >> as the years have gone on, the decades have gone on, and i've now published 38 books, i hear it less, this reynolds price southern writer -- >> also because you've ranged far, too. >> yeah, and people can now be sort of praiseful about it, "distinguished author blood pressure" all right. but i still very much prefer to be just thought of as a good or bad writer and an american writer. >> rose: reynolds price, a great friend, dead at age 77. we shall miss him.