#Light in August

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

[The Hotel room :: Photography by Esperanza Manzanera (Spain)]

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“It is because so much happens. Too much happens. That's it. Man performs, engenders, so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything. That's it. That's what is so terrible. That he can bear anything, anything.” ― William Faulkner, Light in August

[dk-thrive]

It is because so much happens. Too much happens. That's it. Man performs, engenders, so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything. That's it. That's what is so terrible. That he can bear anything, anything.

― William Faulkner, Light in August (Vintage; October 1, 1990) (via Alive on All Channels)

[deathshallbenomore]

mr faulkner would do numbers on tumblr dot com

[desdasiwrites]

He just thought quietly, 'So this is love. I see, I was wrong about it too', thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.

– William Faulkner, Light in August

[cinematic-literature]

Gosford Park (2001) by Robert Altman

Book title: Light in August (1932) by William Faulkner

[literatureaesthetic]

finallly finished 'the waves' (review to come), gonna start 'light in august' by william faulkner next!!

[wolfstarhaven]

hellooo I have a lost fic I was hoping you could help me find !! Sirius visits Remus in the Summer, he tries to teach Remus French, and they drive a car together? Also, I think they at one point listened to the Pet Sounds record. Hopefully this is alright, thank you so much!!!! Have a lovely week :)

Hi anon🌸 The fic you’re looking for is this beautiful classic:

Light in August, by orestesfasting (21k)

Summer, 1977. With the full moon approaching, Sirius heads up to the Lupins' countryside cottage to make himself useful. Or to make a complete and utter arse out of himself, because really, that's all he can seem to do around Remus these days.

xx

[dafoehoe]

“All the men in the village worked in the mill or for it. It was cutting pine. It had been there seven years and in seven years more it would destroy all the timber within its reach. Then some of the machinery and most of the men who ran it and existed because of and for it would be loaded onto freight cars and moved away. But some of the machinery would be left, since new pieces could always be bought on the installment plan—gaunt, staring, motionless wheels rising from mounds of brick rubble and ragged weeds with a quality profoundly astonishing, and gutted boilers lifting their rusting and unsmoking stacks with an air stubborn, baffled and bemused upon a stumppocked scene of profound and peaceful desolation, unplowed, untitled, gutting slowly into red and choked ravines beneath the long quiet rains of autumn and the galloping fury of vernal equinoxes. Then the hamlet which at its best day had borne no name listed on Postoffice Department annals would not now even be remembered by the hookwormridden heirs at large who pulled the buildings down and burned them in cookstoves and winter grates.”

William Faulkner, Light in August

Joanna Newsom, Emily and Leaving the City

[theblackestofsuns]

Light In August (1932)

William Faulkner

Vintage International

[swartzmark]

[harrison-abbott]

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

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“It is because so much happens. Too much happens. That's it. Man performs, engenders, so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything. That's it. That's what is so terrible. That he can bear anything, anything.”

― William Faulkner, Light in August

[wednesdaysfullofwoe]

[deathshallbenomore]

Light in August - W. Faulkner

[fairydrowning]

"The day was beautiful, warm and clear. It was the end of August."

– Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

[itsunsafeinsidemyhead]

I am currently reading some books for my literature exam in January, so I just need to wine about it somewhere

so.....

GOSH WHY IS IT SO FRICKING CONFUSING (I KNOW EXATLY WHY, THEY EXPLAINED IT AT LECTURES BUT STILL DAMN)

DEAR WILLIAM FOULKNER

YOU REALLY DIDN'T THOUGHT ABOUT ALL THE STUDENTS WHO WILL SUFFER AT THE FUTURE

And I mean, I don't even read it in English but in my native language, and goddammit, I thought I knew my native language. TURNS OUT I DON'T

Light in August shortens my life for 10 years with every 10 pages

Please send help, I've read like

6 books out of 19, and I have only one month left till the exam. I WAS BUSY DURING THE TERM, I HAVE WORK, KAY?

Thank you for listening