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"... the same old steeplechase to nothing everywhere." As I Lay Dying Samson "... when I walked into the hallway I saw something. It kind of hunkered up when I come in and I thought at first it was it was one of them got left, then I saw what it was. It was a buzzard. It looked around and saw me and went on down the hall, spraddle-legged, with its wings kind of hunkered out, watching me first over one shoulder and then over the other, like an old baldheaded man. When it got outdoors it begun to fly. It had to fly a long time before it ever got up in the air, with it thick and heavy and full of rain like it was." Darl "... as though we had reached the place where the motion of the wasted-world accelerates just before the final precipice." Addie "He did not know that he was dead, then. Sometimes I would lie by him in the dark, hearing the land that was now of my blood and flesh, and I would think: Anse. Why Anse. Why are you Anse. I would think about his name until after a while I could see the word as a shape, a vessel, and I would watch him liquefy and flow into it like cold molasses flowing out of the darkness into the vessel, until the jar stood full and motionless: a significant shape profoundly without life like an empty door frame ..." Jewel "... if there is a God what the hell is he for." Requiem for a Nun: Act 1 Scene 3 "The past is never dead. It's not even past."
Saturday Class World Literature
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