“That Christ was not crucified: he was worn…” William Faulkner

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“That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels”

William Faulkner (spoken by Quentin Compson, recalling his father)

The Sound and the Fury, June Second, 1910 (PG #75170)

One of the father's sayings Quentin cannot shake, reducing the Passion to the mechanism of the watch.

Citation: "That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels" — William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury, June Second, 1910 (PG #75170). (id faulkner-the-sound-and-the-fury-q6)

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Quotation from The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner