By William Faulkner
“I provide the mausoleum of all desire and wish. . . . I provide it to you no longer that you could be keep in mind time, yet that you just may possibly overlook it from time to time for a second and never spend all your breath attempting to triumph over it. simply because no conflict is ever gained he stated. they aren't even fought. the sector in basic terms finds to guy his personal folly and depression, and victory is an phantasm of philosophers and fools.” —from The Sound and the Fury
The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson relatives, that includes one of the most memorable characters in literature: appealing, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quentin; Jason, the brutal cynic; and Dilsey, their black servant. Their lives fragmented and harrowed by means of heritage and legacy, the character’s voices and activities mesh to create what's arguably Faulkner’s masterpiece and one of the best novels of the 20 th century.
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Everybody in the outfit did. Even the officers. It was something to do, I guess. ' She moved slightly, rubbing her breast against his upper arm. Kelly settled down to a steady cruising speed of eighteen knots as he worked his way out of Baltimore harbor. The Italian freighter was the only merchant ship in view, and the seas were flat, with one-foot ripples. He kept to the main shipping channel all the way out into the Chesapeake Bay. ' she asked as they turned south. 'Yeah. There's a fridge in the kitchenette - it's in the-' 'I saw it.
It's from one of the places I've been,' he said. ' She understood. ' Kelly nodded matter-of-factly. They were out of the yacht basin now, and he advanced the throttles yet again. ' 'Nothing to talk to a lady about,' Kelly replied, looking around from a half-standing position. ' she asked. It caught him short, but he was getting used to it by now. He'd also found that talking to a girl, no matter what the subject, was something that he needed to do. For the first time he answered her smile with one of his own.
That' was a thunderstorm, a towering mass of cumulonimbus clouds that reached eight or ten miles skyward. 'Looks like we're going to get some rain,' he told her as he took the beer from her hand. ' 'Well, not here, it doesn't,' Kelly replied, looking around the boat to make sure that there was no loose gear. Below, he knew, everything was in its proper place, because it always was, ennui or not. Then he switched on his marine radio. He caught a weather forecast at once, one that ended with the usual warning.