The Sound and the Fury Puns

Be careful. This shit rocks hard.

This is a hard one to break up, especially since I want to spend more time on the beginning, more stream-of-consciousness bits than the easier ending half. We are going to start slow with fewer than 20 pages of Benjy’s section on 2/2, and then set you loose on the rest of his section. We’ll speed up a little starting with Jason and Faulkner’s/Dilsey’s sections; there’s a lot to discuss there, but the writing is more straightforward. Because February is awkwardly short, you have extra time to finish Dilsey’s section, and we’ll discuss it all at once.

I will also make a post explaining Benjy a little bit, so those who don’t want to puzzle out the text for themselves can read it with less confusion. Look for that before 2/1.

• 2/2 - Beginning to “What is the matter with you, Luster said,” about page 18
• 2/6 “What is the matter with you, Luster said,” to the end of April 7th, 1928
• 2/9 - June 2, 1910 to “At last I couldn’t see the smoke stack,” around page 113 a little after a dialog section in italics
• 2/13 - “At last I couldn’t see the smoke stack” to “If that hamper is in the way, Mr MacKenzie,” just before lots of italics, around page 147
• 2/16 - “If that hamper is in the way, Mr MacKenzie,” to the end of June 2, 1910
• 2/20 - April 6, 1928 to the letter, “My dear young nephew,” around halfway through the section or about page 223
• 2/23 - The letter through the end of April 6, 1928
• 2/28 - April 8, 1928

I am so excited to discuss this book with you. I'll see you soon!

Well... how's that for an opening line? Lol. Jason is an asshole and a half, well-written but exhausting to read because he's just hateful all the time. I hope you found him easier going than Benjy and Quentin!

A lot of questions are answered here. After Caddy's "fall", the Compson family quickly dominos. She's abandoned by her husband when she has her child, whom she gives to her mother and Jason to raise. (I'm not clear whether Quentin is already dead when she names her daughter after him.) The job offer Jason had, to work with her fiancé at his bank, dries up, and he has to work as a store clerk. Quentin the Elder drowns himself. Jason Sr. dies not long after this (I think) and the family dwindles to Caroline, Jason, Benjy and Quentin the Younger.

Jason is really vicious. He pulls some really abusive crap, like:

• Taking Caddy's money, meant to reimburse him for the risk he's taking in letting her meet baby Quentin, and then driving past her at a gallop while holding the baby up to the window
• Stealing most of the money Caddy sends for teen Quentin to have
• Pocketing the checks Caddy sends as child support, then forging fake checks for Caroline to burn
• Just being absolutely horrible to everyone, Jesus, this guy is the worst

How do you think he got that way? Why does he hate Caddy so much, and why does he meet her in person every few months?

Do you think his mother's favoritism had any part in it? Notice her crying on him when he's a teenager and baby Quentin is brought to the house. She has a husband! Caddy and Quentin don't seem to be the only ones committing figurative incest, do they?

Why do you think Jason's story picks up where it does? We've seen nearly nothing of the family until his late teenage years, after Caddy's fall and Quentin's death.

How is Caddy portrayed in his section? It's interesting how this part is told from Jason's point of view, and he obviously has a low opinion of her, but she comes off as extremely sympathetic anyway (at least to me).

What's going on with Quentin the younger? Why does she need the $50? We've met her as a teenager before, in Benjy's section.

One last thing I wanted to point out is: when she's grabbed by Jason at breakfast, Quentin says she wants her mother (and I assume she means Caddy, who she knows sends her checks; she definitely doesn't run to Caroline). By Jason's account, she's never met her. What's going on there?

How do the other characters react to Jason? He's not nice to a single pers

Congratulations, you got through Benjy’s section! Let’s start with Quentin.

Quentin is Benjy’s opposite. He’s an unreliable narrator, too, but while Benjy reports exactly what happened, Quentin reports things that may or may not have happened, and seems to hide a lot even from himself. Note how he interrupts his own memories sometimes.

Think of Quentin’s thought patterns as not necessarily truthful, but things he might be imagining or repeating to himself. “Father I have committed incest” is directly contradicted by him saying he’s a virgin a little bit later (why couldn’t Caddy be the virgin, etc etc), for example. Some of what he thinks is like an imaginary shower conversation, or intrusive thoughts. It can be helpful to look to others’ reactions to know what’s real and what isn’t.

The first thing I want to talk about is Quentin’s relationship to time. Like Benjy, certain things send him into memories. What are those things? And how is his concept of time different from Benjy’s? He seems obsessed with it.

In fact, he seems obsessed with a lot of things, chief among them Caddy. Note how he relates to every woman as a sister, and gets outraged when Shreve talks about “little dirty sluts”. Quentin asks Shreve, “Did you ever have a sister?” Or, you can only talk that way about women because you haven’t had the experience of feeling protective over one.

And maybe there’s a little bit of discomfort there. Certainly Caddy isn’t a sparkling example of chastity! Remember close to the end of Benjy’s section when he’s clutching at her dress and crying and he doesn’t say why? I think Caddy has lost her virginity, which is suuuuuper important to at least two of the men in her family so far. What must Quentin be thinking when Shreve mentions “dirty little sluts”, knowing someone could be thinking of Caddy that way?

There is so much to discuss here, and I’ve been prattling on for ages. Here’s some questions:

1. Quentin has a southern code of honor and a southern philosophy that drives him. It informs his relationship with both blacks and whites at Harvard, and it’ll come up again later, when he meets some Italian immigrants. How is he keeping to that code? Do you think it has anything to do with Caddy?

2. What’s with the incest? Does he actually want to sex up his sister or does he just think that might have been better than losing her virginity to (I suspect) this Dalton Ames guy?

3. Does Caddy seem to appreciate his protectiveness?

4. This is a real questio

So I have to research how Good Friday is relative to The Sound and the Fury, but unfortunately I can’t seem to draw any conclusions. I know Jason’s section takes place on Good Friday and Benjy is somewhat of a Christ figure, but is there any other nods the book does to Good Friday?

I appreciate the advice! Thanks!!

It's on Netflix. It's awesome. 40min album music video. Each song is animated/filmed in it's own fashion. None of them have anything to do with each other. Check it out!

Above is the response by attorney just dictated to a 3 page email from opposing counsel.

My favorite before this one was "Your letter dated 00-00-00 proved what I have known all along. You, Attorney's name, are a perfect asshole."

What's the best way your attorney has told opposing counsel to eff off?

Enjoy your Friday drinks guys and gals!

I didn't really write a review of "Sound & Fury" just wanted to get some of my feelings down about the album while I'm still "high" over it. Thought I would post it here. I'm not a professional and anything I write is generally just my feelings, opinion, or interpretation. Not sure anyone will care about reading it, but thought I would put it out there anyhow.

Sound & Fury

I wrote this one three years ago....also about Sturgill.

Listen To Sturgill Simpson

We desperately need a subreddit to discuss how all the videos(songs) tie together.

I've seen S&F numerous times. I find something new each time I watch it. The whole thing is genius.

You have the whole daughter avenges the dad thing going on. What does the kid torching the village(all said and done) have to do with the whole thing?

I haven't quite figured out how the girl skateboarding collecting things on the ground fits in?(make art not friends)

Same thing with (last man standing) and (mercury in retrograde).

Any ideas on how those fit into story?

I was wondering if any of y’all knew if there was an official source for S&F lyrics? Bought the LP but it didn’t come with a lyric book, and most of the things I’ve seen online don’t seem entirely right.

I like the sound and think it’s a lot of fun. I also appreciate the meta-ness of the folks who dislike it or write bad reviews are playing right into the album’s hand.

I think it’s fair to say that he’s an artist, not a performer, and that’s why his art tends to be polarizing.

U/Ciro_flexo have you given it a listen yet?

If you have any Vein videos from Sound and Fury 2019, upload that shit. No one but ONE person uploaded a short clip of Vein from Sound and Fury 2019. The S&F YouTube page hasn't uploaded a set in months.

-my 3 week old newborn, who is an absolute prodigy with an IQ of 3,000,000,000,000. #LOL #mywhiteasshassolittleofalifeihavetoresorttolyingaboutmychildrenthatidontevenhave