And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water lik…

William Faulkner
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And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of wind, and after a long time they cannot distinguish even bones upon the lonely and inviolate sand. ✨ William Faulkner (2011). FAULKNER READER, p.82, Modern Library
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And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of wind, and after a long time they cannot distinguish even bones upon the lonely and inviolate sand. ✨ William Faulkner (2011). FAULKNER READER, p.82, Modern Library

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