If it could just be a hell beyond that: the clean flame the… - William Faulkner

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If it could just be a hell beyond that: the clean flame the two of us more than dead. Then you will have only me then only me then the two of us amid the pointing and the horror beyond the clean flame… Only you and me amid the pointing and the horror walled by the clean flame.

William Faulkner

The Sound and the Fury · October 1, 1990 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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William Cuthbert Faulkner (September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American novelist and short story writer whose works feature his native state of Mississippi. He was regarded as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century and was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature.

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Birth Name: William Cuthbert Falkner

Native Name: William Cuthbert Faulkner

Alternative Names: William Falkner

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