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Darl

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Although I am fifteen feet ahead of him, anyone watching us from the cotton house can see Jewel's frayed and broken straw hat a full head above my own. (3)

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Darl

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Still staring straight ahead, his pale eyes like wood set into his wooden face, he crosses the floor in four strides with the rigid gravity of a cigar store Indian dressed in patched overalls and endued with life from the hips down, and steps in a single stride through the opposite window and into the path again just as I come around the corner. (4)

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Darl

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Between the shadow spaces they are yellow as gold, like soft gold, bearing on their flanks in smooth undulations the marks of the adze lade: a good carpenter, Cash is. (4)

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Darl

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Addie Bundren could not want a better oe, a better box to lie in. It will give her confidence and comfort. (5)

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Darl

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I go into the house followed by the...Chuck. Chuck. Chuck. of the adze. (5)

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Cora Tull

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So I saved out the eggs and baked yesterday. The cakes turned out right well. (6)

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Cora Tull

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Riches is nothing in the face of the Lord, for He can see into the heart. (7)

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Cora Tull

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It isn't like the cakes cost me anything, as Mr Tull himself realizes that the eggs I saved were over and beyond what we had engaged to sell, so it was like we had found the eggs or they had been given to us. (8)

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Cora Tull

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The Lord can see into the heart. If it is His will that some folks has different ideas of honesty from other folks, it is not my place to question His decree. (8)

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Cora Tull

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If we were deaf we could almost watch her face and hear him, see him. Her face is wasted away so that the bones draw just under the skin in white lines. (8)

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Cora Tull

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Her eyes are like two candles when you watch them gutter down into the sockets of iron candle-sticks. But the eternal and the everlasting salvation and grace is not upon her. (8)

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Cora Tull

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Under the quilt she makes no more of a hump than a rail would, and the only way you can tell she is breathing is by the sound of the mattress shucks. (8)

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Cora Tull

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It's not everybody can eat their mistakes, I can tell him. (9)

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Cora Tull

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Eula watches him as he goes on and passes from sight again toward the back. Her hand rises and touches her beads lightly, and then her hair. When she finds me watching her, her eyes go blank. (9)

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Darl

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When I was a boy I first learned how much better water tastes when it has set a while in a cedar bucket. (10)

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Darl

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Pa's feet are badly splayed, his toes framed and bent and warped, with no toenail at all on his little toes, from working so hard in the wet in homemade shoes when he was a boy. (11)

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Darl

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He flows upward in a stooping swirl like the lash of a whip, his body in midair shaped to the horse. (13)

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Jewel

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It's because he stays out there, right under the window, hammering and sawing on that ******* box. Where she's got to see him. (14)

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Jewel

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I said Good God do you want to see her in it. It's like when he was a little boy and she says if she had some fertilizer she would try to raise from flowers and he taken the bread pan and brought it back from the barn full of dung. (14)

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Jewel

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If it had just ben me when Cash fell off of that church and if it had just been me when pa laid sick with that load of wood fell on him, it would not be happening with every bastard in the county coming in to stare at her because if there is a God what the hell is He for. (15)

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Jewel

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It would just be me and her on a high hill and me rolling the rocks down the hill at their faces, picking them up and throwing them down the hill faces and teeth and all by God until she was quiet and not that ******* adze going One lick less. (15)

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Jewel

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Because I said If you wouldn't keep on sawing and nailing at it until a man can't sleep even and her hands laying on the quilt like two of them roots dug up and tried to wash and you couldn't get them clean. (15)

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Darl

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He was sick once from wiring int he sun when he was twenty-two years old, and he tells people that if he ever sweats, he will die. I suppose he believes it. (17)

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Darl

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Since he lost his teeth his mouth collapses in slow repetition when he dips. The stubble gives his lower face that appearance that old dogs have. (17)

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Darl

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Jewel's eyes look like pale wood in his high-blooded face. He is a head taller than any of the rest of us, always was. (17)

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Darl

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He says it harshly, savagely, but does not say the word. Like a little boy in the dark to flail his courage and suddenly aghast in to silence by his own noise. (18)

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Cora Tull

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It was the sweetest thing I ever saw. It was like he knew he would never see her again, that Anse Bundren was driving him from his mother's death bed, never to see her in this world again. (21)

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Cora Tull

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I always said Darl was different from those others. I always said he was the only one of them that had his mother's nature, had any natural affection. Not that Jewel, the one she labored so to bear and coddled and petted so and him flinging into tantrums or sulking spells, inventing devilment to devil her until I would have frailed him time and time. (21)

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Cora Tull

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A Bundren through and through, loving nobody, caring for nothing except how to get something with the least amount of work. (22)

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Cora Tull

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I knew she was partial to him, to the same quality in him that let her put up with Anse Bundren when Mr Tull said she ought to poisoned him---for three dollars, denying his dying mother the goodbye kiss. (22)

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Cora Tull

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But thank God it will be the faces of my loved kin, my blood and flesh, for in my husband and children I have been more blessed than most, trials though they have been at times. (22)

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Cora Tull

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She lived, a lonely woman, lonely with her pride, trying to makes folks believe different, hiding the fact that they just suffered her, because she was not cold in the coffin before they were carting her forty miles away to bury her, flouting the will of God to do it. Refusing to let her lie in the same earth with those Bundrens. (23)

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Cora Tull

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I have tried to live right in the sight of God and man, for the honor and comfort of my Christian husband and the love and respect of my Christian children. (23)

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Cora Tull

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Sometimes I lose faith in human nature for a time; I am assailed by doubt. But always the Lord restores my faith and reveals to me His bounteous love for His creatures. (24)

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Dewey Dell

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I said if it don't mean for me to do it the sack will not be full and I will turn up the next row but if the sack is full, I cannot help it...And we picked on toward the secret shade and our eyes would drown together touching on his hands and my hands and I didn't say anything. I said "What are you doing?" and he said "I am picking into your sack." And so it was full when we came to the end of the row and I could not help it. (27)

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Dewey Dell

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He said he knew without the words like he told me that ma is going to die without words, and I knew he knew because if he had said he knew with the words I would not have believed that he had been there and saw us. But he said he did know and I said "Are you going to tell pa are you going to kill him?" without the words I said it and he said "Why?" without the words. (27)

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Vernon Tull

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His folks buries at New Hope, too, not three miles away. But it's just like him to marry a woman born a day's hard ride away and have her die on him. (30)

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Vernon Tull

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It's a hard life on women, for a fact. Some women. (30)

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Vernon Tull

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I mind my mammy lived to be seventy and more. Worked every day, rain or shine; never a sick day since her last chap was born until one day she kind of looked around her and then she went and taken that lace-trimmed night gown she had had forty-five years and never wore out of the chest and put it on and laid down on the bed and pulled the covers up and shut her eyes. "You all will have to look out for pa the best you can," she said. "I'm tired." (30)

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Vernon Tull

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Anse's wrists dangle out of his sleeves: I never see him with a shirt on that looked like it was his in all my life. They all looked like Jewel might have give him his old ones. (32)

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Vernon Tull

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He puts his shoes on, stomping into them, like he does everything, like he is hoping all the time he really cant do it and can quit trying to. (32)

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Vernon Tull

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I tell him again I will help him out if he gets into a tight, with her sick and all. Like most folks around here, I done holp him so much already I cant quit now. (33)

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Pa/Anse

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I told Addie it want any luck living on a road when it come by here, and she said, for the world like a woman, "Get up and move, then." But I told her it want no luck in it, because the Lord put roads for traveling: why He laid them down flat on the earth. (pg 35)

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Pa/Anse

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I am not religious, I reckon. But peace is my heart: I know it is. I have done things but neither better nor worse than them that pretend otherlike, and I know that Old Marster will care for me as for ere a sparrow that falls. (38)

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Darl

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It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end. (39)

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Darl

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"Jewel," I say, "do you know that Addie Bundren is going to die? Addie Bundren is going to die?" (40)

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Peabody

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When Anse finally sent for me of his own accord, I said "He has wore her out at last." And I said a damn good thing, and at first I would not go because there might be something I could do and I would have to haul her back, by God. (41)

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Peabody

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I thought maybe they have the same sort of fool ethics in heaven they have in the Medical College and that it was maybe Vernon Tull sending for me again, getting me there in the nick of time, as Vernon always does things, getting the most for Anse's money like he does for his own. (41)

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Peabody

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Anse has not been in town in twelve years. And how his mother ever got up there to bear him, he being his mother's son. (42)

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Peabody

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I'll be damned if I can see why I dont quit. A man seventy years old, weighing two hundred and odd pounds, being hauled up and down a damn mountain on a rope. (43)

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Peabody

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I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely a function of the mind and that of the minds of the ones who suffer the bereavement. (43-44)

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Peabody

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I have seen it before in women. Seen them drive from the room them coming with sympathy and pity, with actual help, and clinging to some trifling animal to whom they never were more than pack-horses. (45)

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Peabody

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That's what they mean by the love that passeth understanding: that pride, that furious desire to hide that abject nakedness which we bring here with us, carry with us into operating rooms, carry stubbornly and furiously with us into the earth again. (45-46

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Darl

answer

He looks up at the gaunt face framed by the window in the twilight. It is a composite picture of all time since he was a child. (48)

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Darl

answer

She looks at Vardaman; her eyes, the life in them, rushing suddenly upon them; the two flames glare up for a steady instant. Then they go out as though someone had leaned down and blown upon them. (48)

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Darl

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From behind pa's leg Vardaman peers, his mouth full open and all color draining from his face into his mouth, as though he has by some means fleshed his own teeth in himself, sucking. (49)

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Darl

answer

Pa leans above the bed in the twilight, his humped silhouette partaking of that owl-like quality of awry-feathered, disgruntled outrage within which lurks a wisdom too profound or too inert for even thought. (49)

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Darl

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The sound of the saw is steady, competent, unhurried, stirring the dying light so that at each stroke her face seems to wake a little into an expression of listening and of waiting, as though she were counting the strokes. (50)

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Darl

answer

I am I and you are you and I know it and you dont know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me and Darl (51)

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Darl

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Pa breathes with a quiet, rasping sound, mouthing the snuff against his gums. "God's will be done," he says. "Now I can get them teeth." (52)

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Darl

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Jewel, I say, she is dead, Jewel. Addie Bundren is dead (52)

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Vardaman

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I can hear the bed and her face and them and I can feel the floor shake when he walks on it that came and did it. That came and did it when she was all right but he came and did it. (54)

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Vardaman

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"Cooked and et. Cooked and et." (57)

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Dewey Dell

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It's like everything in the world for me is inside a tub full of guts, so that you wonder how there can be any room in it for anything else very important. (58)

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Darl

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He takes up the saw again; again it moves up and down, in and out of that unhurried imperviousness as a piston moves in the oil; soaked, scrawny, tireless, with the lean light body of a boy or an old man. (77)

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Dewey Dell

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But I know it is there because God gave women a sign when something has happened bad. (58)

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Dewey Dell

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It's because I am alone. If I could just feel it, it would be different, because I would not be alone. (59)

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Vardaman

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I got shut up in the crib the new door it was too heavy for me it went shut I couldn't breathe because the rat was breathing up all the air. (65)

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Vardaman

answer

God made me. I did not said to God to made me in the country. If He can make the train, why cant He make them all in the town because flour and sugar and coffee. (66)

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Vardaman

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Are you going to nail her up in it, Cash? (65)

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Vernon Tull

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When folks wants a fellow, it's best to wait till they sends for him, I've found. (69)

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Vernon Tull

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He looked like a drownded puppy, in them overalls, without no hat, splashed up to his knees where he had walked them four miles in the mud. (69)

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Vernon Tull

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I be durn if it didn't give me the creeps, even when I didn't know yet. (70)

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Vernon Tull

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Now and then a fellow gets to thinking. About all the sorrow and afflictions in this world; how it's liable to strike anywhere, like lightning. (71)

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Vernon Tull

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For the Lord aimed for him to do and not to spend too much time thinking, because his brain it's like a piece of machinery: it wont stand a whole lot of racking. (71)

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Vernon Tull

answer

And the next morning they found him in his shirt tail, laying asleep on the floor like a felled steer, and the top of the box bored clean full of holes and Cash's new auger broke off in the last one. When they taken the lid off they found that two of them had bored on into her face. (73)

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Vernon Tull

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It aint right. I be durn if it is. Because He said Suffer little children to come unto Me don't make it right, neither. (73)

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Vernon Tull

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I reckon if there's ere a man or woman anywhere that He could turn it all over to and go away with His mind at rest, it would be Cora. And I reckon she would make a few changes, no matter how He was running it. (74)

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Darl

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It is light, yet they move slowly; empty, yet they carry it carefully; lifeless, yet they move with hushed precautionary words to one another, speaking of it as though, complete, it now slumbered lightly alive, waiting to come awake. (80)

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Darl

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In a strange room you must empty yourself for sleep. And before you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep, you are not. And when you are filled with sleep, you never were. (80)

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Darl

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How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home. (81)

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Cash

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I made it on the bevel. (82)

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Vardaman

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My mother is a fish. (84)

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Vernon Tull

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They had laid her in it reversed. (88)

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Vernon Tull

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If it takes wet boards for folks to fall, it's fixing to be lots of falling before this spell is done. (90)

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Vernon Tull

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Whitfield begins. His voice is bigger than him. It's like they are not the same. (91)

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Vernon Tull

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In the thick air it's like their voices come out of the air, flowing together and on in the sad, comforting tunes. (91)

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Darl

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I cannot love my mother because I have no mother. Jewel's mother is a horse. (95)

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Darl

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In his face the blood goes in waves. In between them his flesh is greenish looking, about that smooth, thick, pale green of cow's cud; his face suffocated, furious, his lip lifted upon his teeth. (97)

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Pa/Anse

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I told him not to bring that horse out of respect for his dead ma, because it wouldn't look right, him prancing along on a durn circus animal and her wanting us all to be in the wagon with her that sprung from her flesh and blood, but we hadn't no more than passed Tull's lane when Darl begun to laugh. (105)

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Darl

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We go on, with a motion so soporific, so dreamlike as to be uninferant of progress, as though time and not space were decreasing between us and it. (108)

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Pa/Anse

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Nowhere in this sinful world can a honest, hardworking man profit. (110)

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Pa/Anse

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Every man will be equal there and it will be taken from them that have and give to them that have not by the Lord. (110)

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Pa/Anse

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I am the chosen of the Lord, for who He loveth, so doeth He chastiseth. But I be durn if He don't take some curious ways to show it, seem like. (111)

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Samson

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I aint much for meddling. Let every man run his own business to suit himself, I say. (114)

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Samson

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I notice how it takes a lazy man, a man that hates moving, to get set on moving once he does get started off, the same as he was set on staying still, like it aint the moving he hates so much as the starting and stopping. (114)

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Samson

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If her eyes had been pistols, I wouldn't be talking now. (115)

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Samson

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Because I got just as much respect for the dead as ere a man, but you've got to respect the dead themselves, and a woman that's been dead in a box four days, the best way to respect her is to get her into the ground as quick as you can. (116)

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Samson

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A man can't tell nothing about them. I lived with the sam one fifteen years and I be durn if I can. (117)

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Samson

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I can't think of his name: Rafe's twin; that one it was. (112)

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Dewey Dell

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I heard that my mother is dead. I wish I had time to let her die. I wish I had time to wish I had. It is because in the wild and outraged earth too soon too soon too soon. (120)

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Dewey Dell

answer

That's what they mean by the womb of time: the agony and despair of spreading bones, the hard girdle in which lie the outraged entrails of events (121)

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Dewey Dell

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I rose and took the knife from the streaming fish still hissing and I killed Darl. (121)

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Dewey Dell

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There may be something from her nightmare on pg 121.

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Dewey Dell

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I believe in God, God. God, I believe in God. (122)

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Vernon Tull

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He was looking at it like he had believed all the time that folks had been lying to him about it being gone, but like he was hoping all the time it really was. (123)

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Vernon Tull

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He looks at me. He don't say nothing; just looks at me with them queer eyes of hisn that makes folks talk...Like somehow you was looking at yourself and your doings outen his eyes. (125)

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Vernon Tull

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"My mule aint going into that water." (127)

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