[excerpt] then proceed to scratch the varnish off
“I don’t suppose anybody ever deliberately listens to a watch or a clock. You don’t have to. You can be oblivious to the sound for a long while, then in a second of ticking it can create in the mind unbroken the long diminishing parade of time you didn’t hear.”
- William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
she has languages to spare. Spanish, the tongue of her mother, her mother's mother. English, the language Danielle, Elijah, Dustin, and I taught her down in Jackson. But she speaks bits and pieces of others as well, ones that didn’t make any sense until she told me more about the orphanage, the holding pen for Black Sun’s future soldiers where she spent most of her time after Dustin bargained her off. There she learned curses in Polish, pleasantries in Bengali, vice and virtues in Italian. The tricks and strategies of card games in Chinese.
- William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
she has languages to spare. Spanish, the tongue of her mother, her mother's mother. English, the language Danielle, Elijah, Dustin, and I taught her down in Jackson. But she speaks bits and pieces of others as well, ones that didn’t make any sense until she told me more about the orphanage, the holding pen for Black Sun’s future soldiers where she spent most of her time after Dustin bargained her off. There she learned curses in Polish, pleasantries in Bengali, vice and virtues in Italian. The tricks and strategies of card games in Chinese.