And we'd sit in the dry leaves that whispered a little with the slow r…

William Faulkner
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And we'd sit in the dry leaves that whispered a little with the slow respiration of our waiting and with the slow breathing of the earth and the windless october, the rank smell of the lantern fouling the brittle air, listening to the dog and the echo of louis' voice dying away ✨ William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury, W. W. Norton & Company
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