As I Lay Dying was a tour de force, William Faulkner claims: " I simply imagined a group of people and subjected them to the simple universal natural catastrophes, which are flood and fire with a simple natural motive to give direction to their progress." This 1930 novel is anything but... read more
An account of the Bundren family's trip accross Mississippi to bury Addie, their wife and mother. It is told by various narrators point of view including the Addie.
“My mother is a fish.”Vardaman Bundren
“'It's Cash and Jewel and Varadaman and Dewey Del', pa says kind of hangdog and proud too, with this teeth and all, even if he wouldn't look at us. 'Meet Mrs Bundren', he says.”Cash and Anse Bundren
“‘”Concrete,” I said. “God Amighty, why didn’t Anse carry you to the nearest sawmill and stick your leg in the saw? That would have cured it. Then you all could have stuck his head into the saw and cured a whole family…”Peabody
“"May God's will be done, now I can get them teeth."”Anse
It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.Highlighted by 81 Kindle customers
I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.Highlighted by 72 Kindle customers
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. The nihilists say it is the end; the fundamentalists, the beginning; when in reality it is no more than a single tenant or family moving out of a tenement or a town.Highlighted by 70 Kindle customers
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. I dont know what I am. I dont know if I am or not.Highlighted by 63 Kindle customers
people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.Highlighted by 62 Kindle customers
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 the stopping.Highlighted by 61 Kindle customers
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.Highlighted by 57 Kindle customers
Sometimes I aint so sho who’s got ere a right to say when a man is crazy and when he aint. Sometimes I think it aint none of us pure crazy and aint none of us pure sane until the balance of us talks him that-a-way. It’s like it aint so much what a fellow does, but it’s the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.Highlighted by 56 Kindle customers
“It’s like a man that’s let everything slide all his life to get set on something that will make the most trouble for everybody he knows.”Highlighted by 51 Kindle customers
That’s the one trouble with this country: everything, weather, all, hangs on too long. Like our rivers, our land: opaque, slow, violent; shaping and creating the life of man in its implacable and brooding image.Highlighted by 50 Kindle customers
Darl
Cora
Darl
Jewel
Darl
Cora
Dewey Dell
Tull
Anse
Darl
Peabody
Darl
Vardaman
Dewey Dell
Vardaman
Tull
Darl
Cash
Vardaman
Tull
Darl
Cash
Darl
Vardaman
Darl
Anse
Darl
Anse
Samson
Dewey Dell
Tull
Darl
Tull
Darl
Vardaman
Tull
Darl
Cash
Cora
Addie
Whitfield
Darl
Armstid
Vardaman
Moseley
Darl
Vardaman
Darl
Vardaman
Darl
Vardaman
Darl
Cash
Peabody
MacGowen
Vardaman
Darl
Dewey Dell
Cash
Suitable for young adults, often read in high school literature courses; but, it is not a light read. Best read with a discussion group or class.
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