“Now and then a fellow gets to thinking about it. Not often, though. Which is a good thing. For the Lord aimed for him to do and not to spend too much time thinking, because his brain it’s like a piece of machinery: it won’t stand a whole lot of racking. It’s best when it all runs along the same, doing the day’s work and not no one part used no more than needful.”
William Faulkner, the best of Faulkner, The Reprint Society, London, 1955, p. 38.
I got to thinking about what it is to be an individual. That’s a long time ago that I got to thinking about that. Most of the time I can shake it but then suddenly it is right back here to shake me. Like now.
It takes being a person to be scared not to be the person you’d like to be.
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May 1, 2012
Posted by Guido Nius |
Tuesday Quought | As I Lay Dying, Faulkner, self, tones |
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