![]() ![]() How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home. And then I must be, or I could not empty myself for sleep in a strange room. This novel follows the stream of consciousness method of writing, and the chapters vary in length too. This book was his fifth novel and was considered to be one of the best during the 20th century literature period. Beyond the unlamped wall I can hear the rain shaping the wagon that is ours, the load that is no longer theirs that felled and sawed it nor yet theirs that bought it and which is not ours either, lie on our wagon though it does, since only the wind and the rain shape it only to Jewel and me, that are not asleep. The American author William Faulkner wrote As I Lay Dying. ![]() He cannot empty himself for sleep because he is not what he is and he is what he is not. Jewel knows he is, because he does not know that he does not know where he is or not. And when you are filled with sleep, you never were. And when you are emptied for sleep you are not. And when you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And before you are emptied for sleep, what are you. ![]() In a strange room you must empty yourself for sleep. ![]()
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