People · 1929
A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired, but then time is your misfortune.
— William Faulkner • The Sound and the Fury
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
A gloomy view of identity: a person is just the total of what has gone wrong for them. The speaker then twists it, since you'd expect misfortune to run out of energy, yet time itself is the misfortune, and time never tires or stops.
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