"Before"@en . . "\"Before\" is a short story by Gael Baudino written deliberately in a style similar to William Faulkner's: the foreword to the story says, \"the sometimes strange syntax and editorial elisions are intentional in this homage to Faulkner.\" It concerns Greta Harlow, a young woman living in a Lee's Corners, a small town in fictional Oktibushubee County. She is raped and impregnated by Jimmy White, son of a prominent and wealthy businessman. An elderly wealthy woman, Mrs."@en . . . . . .