William Faulkner quote about face from As I Lay Dying - He is looking down at her peaceful, rigid face fading into the dusk as though darkness were a precursor of the ultimate earth, until at last the face seems to float detached upon it, lightly as the reflection of a dead leaf.
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“ He is looking down at her peaceful, rigid face fading into the dusk as though darkness were a precursor of the ultimate earth, until at last the face seems to float detached upon it, lightly as the reflection of a dead leaf. ”
 William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying (1930). copy citation

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Author William Faulkner
Source As I Lay Dying
Topic face looking
Date 1930
Language English
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William Faulkner quote about face from As I Lay Dying - He is looking down at her peaceful, rigid face fading into the dusk as though darkness were a precursor of the ultimate earth, until at last the face seems to float detached upon it, lightly as the reflection of a dead leaf.
William Faulkner quote about face from As I Lay Dying - He is looking down at her peaceful, rigid face fading into the dusk as though darkness were a precursor of the ultimate earth, until at last the face seems to float detached upon it, lightly as the reflection of a dead leaf.