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The Sound and the Fury
Manuscript, page 86 (detail). Transcription follows image.
Detail: Page 86, The Sound and the Fury Ms
William Faulkner Foundation Collection, 1918-1959, Accession #6074 to 6074-d, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections,
University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.   [Item Metadata: THE SOUND AND THE FURY, Autograph manuscript. 140 p. (146 R, 2 V) on 146 l. Slipcase.]

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no you will not do that until you come to believe that even she was not quite worth despair and I said I
will never believe that nobody knows what I know and father said I think you'd better go on up to Cambridge right
away you might go on up into Maine for a month you can afford it if you're careful and I said suppose I realize
what you think I will realize up there next week or next month and father said then you'll remember that for you to
go to Harvard has been your mother's dream ever since you were born and no compson has ever disappointed a
lady <and I said temporary and father said was the saddest word of all there's nothing else in the world it's not
even time until it was> and I said <it will be the best thing for me for all of us and father said> temporary it
will be the best thing for me for all of us and father said every man is the arbiter of his own <[illegible]> values but let no man
prescribe for another's good and I said temporary and father said was the saddest word of all there is nothing else in
the world its not love or despair until its time its not even time until it was