As I Lay Dying

by William Faulkner

“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.”

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. It’s not that I wouldn’t and will not it’s that it is too soon too soon too soon.

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.