Faulkner — The Sound and the Fury
Book page: faulkner-sound-fury
From: Quotes batch 5
Edition: Jonathan Cape (1929 / Vintage Classics)
On Consciousness and Time
“I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire… 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.” (p. 76)
On Identity and Memory
“Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting.” (p. 1 - Benjy’s fragmented cognition)