Friday, August 21, 2009
The Sound and the Fury - Favorite Lines
"First published in 1929, Faulkner created his "heart's darling," the beautiful and tragic Caddy Compson, whose story Faulkner told through separate monologues by her three brothers--the idiot Benjy, the neurotic suicidal Quentin and the monstrous Jason." --Google Books
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"I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it." (Father to Quentin, on presenting him with a graduation watch, p. 95)
ReplyDelete". . . her neat grey face her hair tight and sparse from her neat grey skull, spectacles in neat grey rims riding approaching like something on a wire, like a cash box in a store. She looked like a librarian. Something among dusty shelves of ordered certitudes long divorced from reality, desiccating peacefully, as if a breath of that air which sees injustice done." (Quentin, p.144)
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