The Wild Silence

From Faulkner’s Appendix to The Sound and the Fury:

QUENTIN III.... But who loved death above all, who loved only death, loved and lived in a deliberate and almost perverted anticipation of death as a lover loves and deliberately refrains from the waiting friendly tender incredible body of his beloved, until he can no longer bear not the refraining but the restraint and so flings, hurls himself, relinquishing, drowning.

From the Silver Jews’ American Water (buy here):

• The Silver Jews, “The Wild Kindness”