“Then Ben wailed again, hopeless and prolonged. It was nothing. Just sound. It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow become vocal for an instant by a conjunction of planets.”

— William Faulkner , book The Sound and the Fury

Source: The Sound and the Fury (1929)

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