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    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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      2 days ago

      I’m not sure what the Faulkner is in reference to. The quote is from Shakespeare’s Macbeth, who, on realizing he has lost everything in his life, is saying that life is meaningless.

      • nymnympseudonym@piefed.socialEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        The Sound and The Fury is one of Faulkner’s classics. A must-read and you will probably cry.

        Yes the line comes from Shakespere So does “Brave new world”, but nobody gets confused over that novel’s authorship

        • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          2 days ago

          yes good point well made

          but if the quote was

          ‘Oh wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! Oh brave new world, That has such people in’t.’

          I hope I could be forgiven for not spotting the Huxley reference

      • noodles@slrpnk.net
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        2 days ago

        The Sound and the Fury is a Faulkner novel? It’s been too long though and IDK if it quotes Macbeth past the title.