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"Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders. Knows remembers believes a corridor in a big long garbled cold echoing building of dark red brick sootbleakened by more chimneys than its own, set in a grassless cinderstrewnpacked compound surrounded by smoking factory purlieus and enclosed by a ten foot steel-and-wire fence like a penitentiary or a zoo,
— Sep 03, 2025 03:57PM
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Phi
is on page 243 of 507
I truly think I might like this even better than The Sound and The Fury
— Sep 14, 2025 07:49PM
Phi
is on page 222 of 507
Interesting portrayal of the Burdens because even their sentiments which were anti-slavery and pro-human rights had the rationalization of religious fanaticism and racism
— Sep 10, 2025 04:36PM
Phi
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"She trotted clumsily, an animal impeded by that which distinguished her from animals: her heels, her clothes, her smallness."
— Sep 08, 2025 03:44PM
Phi
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"To another they must have looked like two monks met during the hour of contemplation in a garden path."
— Sep 08, 2025 03:34PM
Phi
is on page 126 of 507
I do think Faulkner is the kind of author that makes me feel like 'Ah he's great... so great... and so many authors I've read before have shadows parts of him in them. And I'm glad I read him now instead of sooner because I might not have been able to appreciate him.'
— Sep 07, 2025 09:17PM
Phi
is on page 126 of 507
"Perhaps he expected to be punished upon his return, for what, what crime exactly, he did not expect to know, since he had already learned that, though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too."
— Sep 05, 2025 04:26PM
