Then Ben wailed again, hopeless and prolonged. It was nothing. Just so…

William Faulkner
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Then Ben wailed again, hopeless and prolonged. It was nothing. Just sound. It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow become vocal for an instant by a conjunction of planets. ✨ William Faulkner (2016). The Sound and the Fury (Third International Edition) (Norton Critical Editions), p.142, W. W. Norton & Company
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