““His voice just stops, exactly like when the needle is lifted from a phonograph record by the hand of someone who is not listening to the record. [...] She speaks the same dead, level tone: two bodiless voices in monotonous strophe and anistrophe: to bodiless voices recounting dreamily something performed in a region without dimension by people without blood [...] Two of them are also motionless, the woman with that stonevisaged patience of a waiting rock, the old man with a spent quality like the charred wick of a candle from which the flame has been violently blown away.””
![“His voice just stops, exactly like when the needle is lifted from a phonograph record by the hand of someone who is not listening to the record. [...] She speaks the same dead, level tone: two bodiless voices in monotonous strophe and anistrophe: to bodiless voices recounting dreamily something…” quote by William Faulkner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/759/william-faulkner-306_metafiction_his-voice-just-stops-exactly-like-when-t_3072658.jpg)
![“I believe that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of [man’s] puny inexhaustible voice, still talking. William Faulkner” quote by Mary Karr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2e9/mary-karr-3335_quote_i-believe-that-when-the-last-ding-dong-o_1832282.jpg)
