Original artwork, not a still
The Sound and the Fury • 1929
Clocks slay time. Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Faulkner treats ticking clocks as killers of real time. Mechanical counting turns time into dead units, and only when the ticking stops does it feel alive. It's a poetic claim that lived time isn't the same as measured time.
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