/lit/ - Literature

So I just started As I Lay dying, and what the fuck, is all Faulkner's prose this overdone? This is worse than Hemmingway.

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What are you favorite Faulkner quotes? Favorite or least favorite books or characters?

A quote from Absalom, Absalom that changed my life:

>“Maybe nothing ever happens once and is finished. Maybe happen is never once but like ripples maybe on water after the pebble sinks, the ripples moving on, spreading, the pool attached by a narrow umbilical water-cord to the next pool which the first pool feeds, has fed, did feed, let this second pool contain a different temperature of water, a different molecularity of having seen, felt, remembered, reflect in a different tone the infinite unchanging sky, it doesn’t matter: that pebble’s watery echo whose fall it did not even see moves across its surface too at the original ripple-space, to the old ineradicable rhythm...