the parts of this book told from quentin’s perspective are just extraordinary. faulkner does things with language in that section that i can’t even begin to explain to you. even the simplest lines become so heartbreaking.

these are some excerpts that have continually stuck with me after i’ve read this

“There was something terrible in me sometimes at night I could see it grinning at me I could see it through them grinning at me through their faces it’s gone now and I’m sick”
every italicised run-on line in this goddamn book devastated me in one way or another.

“A quarter-hour yet. And then I’ll not be. The peacefullest words. Peacefullest words.”

honestly everything to do with the time motif just absolutely floored me. quentin breaking his watch at the beginning of his chapter, christ!! even that little exchange between caddy and quentin of “what time is it / i don’t know” only faulkner can make a simple line like that hurt so much

the whole second section was by far my favourite part of this novel, but the other three sections definitely also have their moments of ingenuity. just fantastic. now i need to harass every bookstore in a 100km radius to ask if they have absalom absalom in stock LOL