Finished Absalom, Absalom!, read If on a winter's night a traveler, started The Crying of Lot 49.

For much of the time I was reading Absalom, Absalom!, it used exhausting language to describe events it mostly failed to make me interested in. That got better once a critical mass of unexpected turns accumulated; my final impression is pretty good.

Demian Veen (from Ada, or Ardor) might even largely be a reference to Thomas Sutpen. In fact, there could be dozens of Faulkner references in Ada I'd entirely missed due to ignorance of Faulkner at the time. I guess I'll reread it later.