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My name been Dilsey since fore I could remember and it be Dilsey when they’s long forgot me. How will they know it’s Dilsey, when it’s long forgot, Dilsey, Caddy said. It’ll be in the Book, honey, Dilsey said. Writ out. Can you read it, Caddy said. Won’t have to, Dilsey said. They’ll read it for me. All I got to do is say Ise here.
Because Father said clocks slay time. He said time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
Ever since then I have believed that God is not only a gentleman and a sport; He is a Kentuckian too.
They all talked at once, their voices insistent and contradictory and impatient, making of unreality a possibility, then a probability, then an incontrovertible fact, as people will when their desires become words.
they too partaking of that adult trait of being convinced of anything by an assumption of silent superiority.
You will find that even injustice is scarcely worthy of what you believe yourself to be.
listen no good taking it so hard its not your fault kid it would have been some other fellow did you ever have a sister did you no but theyre all bitches
‘Well, bud,’ he said, looking at me, ‘I’ll be damned if you don’t go to a lot of trouble to have your fun. Kidnapping, then fighting. What do you do on your holidays? burn houses?’
‘I’m not going far,’ I said. ‘I’ll just stand here.’ We crossed the river. The bridge, that is, arching slow and high into space, between silence and nothingness where lights – yellow and red and green – trembled in the clear air, repeating themselves.
But I would have seen him and he cannot get another car for an hour because after six o’clock. I took out my watch and listened to it clicking away, not knowing it couldn’t even lie.
‘Ain’t none of who?’ Dilsey said. ‘Lemme tell you some-thin, nigger boy, you got jes es much Compson devilment in you es any of em. Is you right sho you never broke dat window?’
