Books · 1930
It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.
— William Faulkner · As I Lay Dying
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An editorial interpretation.
The speaker turns birth and death into stark arithmetic: two people are needed to make someone, while one can die. From that imbalance comes an enormous conclusion about the world's ending. The blunt phrasing makes the reasoning sound both simple and bleak.
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