"It does not take long. Soon the fine galloping language, the gutless swooning full of sapless trees and dehydrated lusts begins to swim smooth and swift and peaceful. It is better than praying without having to bother to think aloud. It is like listening in a cathedral to a eunuch chanting in a language which he does not even need to not understand."

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About William Faulkner

William Faulkner was an American novelist and short-story writer whose works reshaped modern fiction. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949 for his contribution to the modern American novel.

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