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tie T get up get up come on now Grandma

ain't morning yet hurry something's a

matter at the house how do you know that

went down here the house is way up there

then you quit talking and put your

clothes on I just know it

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hey you stay here stay right here

you got find man don't you dare come

back here to me do where I look

everywhere if that child in back in this

house for a breakfast she's better off

dead now run run

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waake Mr B up wash him and wash yourself

and don't

make up better get dressed

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L sakes Mr Howard you set up all night

again why don't you go to bed and close

your eyes like everybody else

does bad dream DIY you don't have to be

dreaming to have things go bad Mr Howard

that child Quinton ain't in this house

this is the end of the line

lady I don't get

it you ride to Memphis you ride back

from Memphis Memphis you don't even get

off round trip fair for

nothing well don't give yourself any

trouble about it I just happen to be an

exent

my name is Quenton compson and this is

the little town of Jefferson Mississippi

where I've lived ever since my mother

deserted me the day I came into this

world and left me behind with my two

uncles to grow up any way I

could it ought to be wonderful to be

alive on a day like

this it ought to

be I've been out all night and this

isn't the first time what I'm running

away from is a house where I'm not loved

and not wanted and never have been what

I'm running away from is him his name is

Jason he's been my enemy as long as I

can remember Jason Jason Jason and his

old mother it was an unlucky day for the

cson when they moved into our house and

began spoiling Our Lives they're not

relatives they're Outsiders they've

always been Outsiders and nothing they

can do will ever make them part of my

family well I can stand a lot I guess if

I have to and maybe somehow someday

something will happen to help me

good

morning good morning you ain't been in

this house all night well I'm in it

house and I want my cof cuz I'm parish

and B you let me f myself to death wor

about you why just because I enjoy the

evening hour it's morning go on

Dy Quinton

Quinton what is it Uncle Howard oh now

don't play games with me honey Jason kid

you if he caught you with this you know

that don't you you know something I

don't care if he does because he isn't

even related to me he isn't anything to

me except some kind a Watch Dog besides

he a got eyes in the back of his head

and he's got a sleep at night so he

didn't go catch me I don't want to be

around if he does well that's all right

Uncle Howard just you stay safe and lead

me to my awful fi now you stop that kind

of talking tell me what you've been

doing

I've been

prowling you're ready to believe that

aren't you it's nice to have loving

relatives we look at you what did

anybody think you are not anybody you

are my blood uncle and you're supposed

to Love Me Now what do you love Uncle

Howard besides Jin and tonic

water I'm

sorry I'm sorry

I what's the matter with me something

metal chemical or

something something's got to happen to

me this summer I'm going to

die well I got to take chances in this

life cuz otherwise I might as well be

dead you know something things are going

to be better for me this summer cuz I'm

not going to go on for the rest of my

life being a leftover person in this

world he the other kind yes I'm the

other kind

thank

you thank you for your Aid and comfort

Uncle Howard

you look more like the end of the day

instead of the

starting coffee and cigarettes well

there's anything else on your stomach

will make me something better then I

will but I'm just one person with two

hands I looked I looked but I couldn't

find it I told you to tote wood last

night I told you not to leave this place

till that wood box are full to the top

Grandma I forgot Grandma you

forgot is that coffee I smell is it now

you see you fixed me you fixed me I'm

coming I'm coming as fast as I can so no

but now I don't have wings I want coffee

right now I don't see how she expects

anybody in this place to get sleep she

stands in the hall hauling at folks from

the crack of dawn here take it this

coffee all them steps excuse me better

my old legs on them steps than

yours it's a long walk up them steps to

this room you're getting too old to be a

servant in this house don't you I could

die in this room and nobody would miss

me when Mr comson was alive this would

not be allowed yes and he baby youw all

right but he's with the Lord now and I

got eight people to be fed I have not

slept all the night my feet are like two

sticks of ice I'll bring you a hot water

bottle later I think I'll speak to my

son Jason about you I think I'll tell

him I'm the last person in this house to

receive attention Miss scan why can't

you come downstairs and have breakfast

with all of us it would do you good as a

girl on bayen I worked I beat clothed

with rocks in the river I cooked and

cleaned for honest French fisherman now

I'm an old woman I want my breakfast in

bed you better be getting up or Mr Jason

going to come in here and chase you

out two biscuits with butter and

honey Grandma I'm hungry take your time

you going to be fit

hi honey how you pass the night night's

one time I I'm watching Grandma I sleep

good Lord watches over him then he One

compson the good Lord gives extra

special care to Har Ben Dy why is he

always staring at me that way he looks

at me like he hates me oh he don't hate

you honey but he did love your m a whole

lot and all he knows is today you was

born she left but what does he blame me

for oh I don't know what goes on this

poor

head nobody does

reach and I'll whack it off with the

butcher knife I bet Benny had a piece of

it oh yes he is he already had a big

piece ask him if he a't regardless just

you reach one more time go on Master one

more

time I reckon that's your school costume

is it or maybe today's a holiday

could you P me a H Cup more please D

will that c down and come in here for a

minute what follow put that cup in the

sink and come in here what's you up to

now Jason I'll give you just 10 seconds

to put that cup down and come in here

like I told

you D what time is it when 10 seconds up

you just whistle meantime I think I'll

have me another you let me go you let me

go I'm ra for everyone of you all and a

fine job you've made of it you're call

man Jason if man you be at least I man

enough to keep that flower barrel full

all right I had a call from your

principal if you're absent one more time

you'll have to leave school now suppose

you tell me where you go when you skip

school hide out in the woods with those

slicke headed jelly beans from town is

that what you do like to know when you

well I'll tell you what I do I do

anything and everything well you look at

with your face is painted like a clowns

and your hair and your dress look at you

are you trying to tell me there's

something wrong with my motor dressing

do you want all the salesman in the

county to go around talking about you is

that what you looking for yes it's

better than living here with you hit me

then if nothing but hitting somebody

will do you hit me I'll drive you to

school I'll see that you get there now

go on upstairs and change that

address I want my M oh baby baby don't

call for her she's far away now just

lean on Dy

Jason you Jason ain't you ashamed of

yourself not

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particularly Jason there's no respect

for me in this house uh good morning

Mama I see you are in your usual Good

Humor this morning I the m here the cook

should ask me what to put on the table I

should have the household keys to carry

my purse and I should be the first to be

S coffee in the morning I'm in a hurry

how these come on these Aristocrats from

the day I married their papa from the

day I brought you here they set

themselves against us well they didn't

like it any for the daddy to go out and

bu us and come out with a cage and War

her brat in those days neither one of us

look like much to a fancy Delta family

we still don't I'll tell you how it is

we are too good for them we should go to

New Orlean before long you would find a

rich girl with a big beautiful house I

would have the whole to flooor with my

own little servant around my back and

you my son would have silk shirts sewn

by hand and a fine modern office to go

to in the city you tell them they must

call me Madam to stand up when I come

into a room you tell that Quentin she

must not slam the door when I'm sleeping

you can make them oby where would they

be without

you watch it

Howard or you'll all right off the porch

and kill yourself in plain sight of the

neighbors one at a time

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I see you're not carrying any

books school books know what I'm talking

about I'd like to know what you did with

them if it's any of my business get

in would you care to have me make it my

business well your nurse have already

been frazzled once this morning so I'll

save them and tell you they are reposing

in Mr sel's Pawn Shop in downtown

Jefferson telling me you hocked them you

want to call it that I was in need of a

cold curl permanent wave which I was

unable to obtain on credit because

everybody in this town knows I don't

have one Indian sent of my own course I

haven't got any right to ask I'm just

the one that paid 14465 for them my

mother sends me money for my books you

don't pay for one single thing I'd

rather starve

first you know what I'd do if I thought

your money paid for this what would you

do I would tear it off and throw it

right out in the

street you don't believe me do you want

to see me do it I wouldn't buy a ticket

would you hurry up please you're going

to make me late to that summer school

you're making me go to it isn't every

day I have the pleasure of conversation

with you I'm just making the most for

the Jason conversation is when two

people have something to say to each

other it's all right with you I'll think

my own

P you know something I'm bad and I'm

going to hell and I would rather be in

Hell than any place you

are knowledge is power get out and be

good

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morning dog morning Mr Jason he's up

there waiting for

you

morning why don't you buy yourself a

dollar watch so you're finally here what

kind of a start you have today same as

always up easy out of a nice smooth bed

colored cook waiting downstairs with a

white napkin and ice for your juice a

boil

pushing your chair with a grin showing

all his teeth or you eat on on a veranda

this morning so that you could look out

all over your property what's left of it

that is time out to wash to oh sure sure

compson's are clean folks clean and

broke your stepdaddy drank himself to

death and mine waited around from to do

it that's why I own the store and you

work for me I hope I didn't

inconvenience

you but if it's not all right you know

what you can do I ain't going to do a

thing the compson's name is good for

trade that's right d look try to be on

time Jason you here

sure but if it's not all right you know

what you can

do he you want you want to hear

something dear daddy wish you were here

no good parties when daddy's out of town

I miss my sweet daddy oh I reckon she

does too you know last time I give her

$115 give it to her I never promise a

woman nothing or let them know what I'm

going to give him that's the only way to

manage him see keep keep him guessing

you can't think of no better way to

surprise him give him a bus in the jaw I

never see you going to Memphis for no

relaxation and you don't look for it

around here where do you get it I

wonder you keep wondering Earl

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hello Mr sby good afternoon

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Quinton oh you got a new high

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yeah hey who' that belong to

that that's miss Emily merido ants

brooch and that kind of yellowy one miss

bambo right after a husband died of

drinking in hard

times oh and I like this one that's

sweet it's a love notot har Franklin

just after World War I the match broke

up you know it's a very emotional

business you're in Mr sby all these

precious alums given up in time of

stress you might say that you a dealer

in broken hearts I prefer to be known as

a finance year Well you certainly can

say that all the best families in town

are represented in here one way or

another well we usually don't get them

as young as

you by the way where were you yesterday

now our agreement was when you came in

here to PA these You' be in here to use

them every

day my bones ACH yesterday your

granddaddy read Latin now get to

it what I got to find out I can't find

out in books besides what's good of

botney in my life it don't hurt to

understand the beauties of nature long

with making a living right at this

particular minute I got enough trouble

with nature

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nope I'm afraid I'm have to come back

tomorrow yeah if your bones don't ache

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n

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[Applause]

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Jon

then well I'll give you credit for

no you skip school again and you come

here well I get an hour for lunch don't

I and I don't want to spend it all here

with you did I get a letter today you

got a boyfriend who can

write Jason did I get a letter from my

mother she said last time she'd send me

some money now she promised you would

would you please give it to me I'm going

to if you give me time

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doesn't say how

much but she thinks you've been stealing

from me it says so right

here I know you are keeping the money I

sent her I know that as well as if I

were looking at

you your check Endor it right here you

must think I'm a big fool I want to see

it first I'll save you the trouble it's

$10 Jason you're the biggest lie you've

been stealing from me for years and all

goes in that 10 box you keep up in your

closet tell me what you've got to have

money

for it's it's the money I owe and I got

to pay it I got to pay it today who too

and don't twist your hands while I'm

talking to you I've been charging some

things at the department store a whole

lot of things if you can find anybody

who will charge anything to you in this

St after what I told them I'll eat

it Jason please please please I need

some money I got to have it I'll do

anything you ask if you just give it to

me don't be so quick about saying you'll

do anything your mother's made offers

like that and they got taken up right

and left you're not going to lead her

kind of life not as long as I'm around

to stop it sign

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it the this way I'll keep you close to

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home you wish you hadn't

I give up I give

up that's your music Ben I sure would

like to go see but I ain't going to get

to go I ain't got no quarter sides who

look after you it's always me I'm always

always the one get

up of course we can go over the golf

course and find us ball and sell for a

quarter except who buy

it maybe somebody lost some money around

here then all we got to do is find

it Ben they got a man off that show can

play music on the song

that him that's him he's awful big you

chicken he won't come on through the

gate come

on go ahead go ahead you

chicken Ben Ben Ben I take you for a

ride Ben a ride Ben a ride Ben Ben I

take you for a ride

a ride Ben a ride I'll take it for a

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ride just listen to them horns too Benji

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get AO to

him they got more scare boys loose in

town than we got in this whole show all

right all right what stopping a work

around

here you got a big man here boy he's a

comson that's Mr Benjamin comson comson

is that something that's the most

something thing in this whole

town want to earn a dollar you mean me

you mean a dollar $1 all you have to do

is drive around the square a few times

better well we'll we'll let the big fell

here help

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you no side streets now straight up the

middle I'll give you the dollar as soon

as you get back thank you sir

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all right hold

it if you ever cross that gate with him

again I'll kill you now get the hell on

home

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pleas

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sh

wo well she's all

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yours for

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I wasn't following you no man well I got

a lot better things to do than follow

boys and I M happen to be walking in the

same direction well if you walk in let's

walk what happens if we stop walking

what do you mean what happens well do

you run

away depends on what we stop for well

what do you say you and me go on my

trailer right here sit down relax and

have a

Coke I don't think I'm very thirst to

thank you well you don't have to drink

it do you you can sit down and talk to

me can't you

listen I don't want you to get any wrong

ideas in case you thinking how easy it

is cuz I'm not some pickup in a little

southern town you can talk about after

you go on home listen I wasn't thinking

anything like

that well I guess is in h

minute okay come on

in you crazy if you think I'm scared to

what are you smiling like that

for well I just feel good honey you're

not alive let you feel it you know you

kiding

yourself I'm very

emotional it's got me into a lot of

trouble too it's probably going to get

me into a lot more well you're making

yourself a lot of problems when I'm

hungry I eat when I'm tired I sleep when

I'm I was when I see a

girl well I don't mind asking her

name well I don't think I care to say

look it's it's not that I'm fresh it's

just that I well I like people but when

you come into a small town like this and

if you was a Conny you could take him

for a trap nobody will talk to you I've

been here two days and nobody not even

an old

lady it would bow you half to death if

they did all they can talk about is

their granddaddies in the Civil wall and

their female

disorders and what they going to have

for Sunday dinner they just hate

Outsiders it's cuz everybody's related

to everybody else it's positively

Greek you know like the old tragedy sure

my name is Quenton

compson Quenton Quenton that sounds like

a boy's name it is matter of fact the

boy that had it before me killed himself

for

love he uh blew his head off in his

mama's best

bedroom well I'm named for a fireman in

New York meet Charlie push

it's hot outside hands

cold excuse me for doing that but I just

happen to be awfully nervous why it's

all related to my personal family

background that I'm sure could be of any

interest to you what is your personal

family

background what you want to start with

my crazy grandmother or my keeper or

maybe my mama who went off and left me

the day I was born I mean he want to

know about

you well just ask around I'm well known

in this time I don't have to ask anybody

I picked you right out of a

crowd why cuz I'm so funny

looking no

pretty I'm glad I told you my name

I'll tell you how all this is going to

turn out you and me I'm going to know a

lot more about you than just your name

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Sun see this nice shiny behind yes would

you deliver not for me yes would you

just ask Mr CS the stor there

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I've come

back I'm just going to faint if you st

me like that

Jase I'd like to see son a welcome I'd

like to see son a pleasure I've come a

long

way so it's CAD I've come by

trainers of it

you looks a tall and judging standing

there well that's

better well here we are side by side i'

s to give a pen if know what you're

thinking seeing me Po PL this

again you never could hide anything it's

on your face change change

change cat is changed well I admit it

Tom's been no friend to me

you're

older well I hope I be gracefully that's

all woman can do well easy years

goodness I've wandered near and far I

think I'd make you weak Jason if I tell

you that long sad story no don't don't

worry I won't men don't like toar Tales

of Woe from the lips of

women you're talking too much and too

fast I

know it's so hot and Dusty and the Sun

so glittery think with the evened coming

on turn

cool do live turn cool around here why

are you here you're going to have to

tell me sooner or later Well you

certainly have lost the G lot of

conversation Jas seems to me you and I

have had a lot to say to each other

after all this time I'm waiting for you

to

begin I've come to here

her I want to see my girl my

Quinton yor qu oh God I'm longing to

hear about it every little thing have

you been kind to a Jason have you late

have you been kind have you Kinder than

you I didn't drop a child on the floor

of a servant's cabin I didn't craw out

of bed the next day and disappeared

don't tell me anymore about what I did I

want a bag I'll give you $1,000 if you

let me have a

bag what

I can get it and I know how you can get

it the same way you got a

h thank

you thank you for that

you I reckon there's no secret about how

we feel about one

another I'm

crazy I'm

insane I couldn't take her anywhere I

couldn't even keep

her I know what I'm thinking of but let

me see

it just a minute I won't beg or say

anything or do

anything I'll go on right

away but let me see it a

minute you have my father's name do you

think I'd have to ask him

twice once even you're asking

me will you we don't even know your name

at the house you know that

we don't even talk about you the house

you know

that can I see my daughter

Jason all right you can see

her you you're not fooling with me are

you be right here at

9:00 you'll do it you'll come you

promise don't you trust me no I know you

you I grow up with you I'm sorry I'm

sorry that was a fool thing to

say you promise you'll do it Jason I

wouldn't ask you if there was any other

way that's right caddy there is no other

way look at that ball of fire Ben watch

your gettering down I wonder where do

she go when she go

look at you two like a bear and a monkey

stop that swing and get into

supper come

on where's everybody the ladies is

upstairs where's H he had early you mean

he draged early well anyway sleep I wish

I could go show in town I could if I had

a quarter if you had wings you could fly

to heaven and I don't want to hear

another word about that

show supper's ready that reminds me I've

got a couple of free tickets they gave

me show tickets yeah you fixing to use

them no I'm fixing to burn them to what

you see this ticket sler I sure them you

could have had

them what do you do that

for such you'll

remember never take Ben outside the gate

again as long as they you

live Grandma did you sing serves you

just right you've been told and told

about showing our poor Benji off like

that to the whole town maybe now you'll

know better

why you come and eat I'm waiting for

supper it's ready I done told you excuse

me I didn't hear anybody come down they

ain't coming down they want trays in

their room upstairs so you come on eat

so I can take something up to them are

they sick what did the doctor say it was

not small boxs I hope will you please

come on so I can get done what are you

want to act this way for when you know

how much bother I has anyway as long as

I am buying food for people in this

house they'll have to come down to the

table to eat it now I am waiting for

supper this supper's going to turn right

to B

did you get a good piece of roast

if you didn't I'll try to get you a

better one it's all right what it's all

right will we have some more rice

no

Mama no thank

you I'm glad you all felt well enough to

come down to

supper it's little enough I can do for

you to come to the table no matter how I

feel

well let me guess how you feel outrage

slighted snubbed mared am I getting warm

which one is it

tonight I try my best for your sake to

suffer in silence that's the trouble

with this

family nobody suffers in silence nobody

suffer at all if it weren't for you how

dare you speak to him like that if I had

my way I wouldn't speak to him at all

all I think about is running away from

him you've been running a long time not

to have got off any further in the meal

time what kind of a girl are you always

quarreling it's his fault he won't leave

me alone he's the nearest thing to a

father you ever had it's his bread you

eat it's only right that he should have

obedience from you well let me tell you

one thing whatever I do it's his fault

and if I'm bad it's his fault you know

Jason if just one time just one

time are G

it just once you just try to be human

don't you think I'm human enough for

this

managerie now you see what he calls it a

managerie this is a home Jason where

people

live I wish I were dead I wish we were

all dead don't ever let me hear you say

that again well I'm not going to take it

back cuz I mean it you're not going to

buckle do you he you're going to stand

up and take whatever life hand you

can I go now not yet only you come with

me what are you

doing where are you taking her

out where are you going

nobody ever tells me

anything where are we going

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stop Jason Jason stop Jason

Jas

stop

stop J what was that all

about J who was

she my

God Jason that's my

mother Jason stop the car that's my

mother Jason stop it it's my mother

please

liar liar you asked to see her for a

minute just one minute and you gave me

that oh you gave me dad I ran after you

people came out the street they thought

I'd been an accident they thought I'd

been run

down strangers took pity on me was

somethingone awful happened you because

of this God in blind I said I'd give you

one minute that's one minute more than

you gave her in her lifetime

I know my fa you walked away and you

never looked back not

once you don't dare look back I'll tell

you what you would have

seen aches and pains and fevers and

tears where were

you last night on the street corner

that's as close as you ever got to any

of it what Heen knows I've said all that

to

myself I I suppose I was unfit I

suppose you in your big mother's heart

with strangers taking pity on

you they have people valued

me how do you think I've managed all

these years I've I've never been unloved

or unwanted and they took good care of

you did they yes

I've had devoted

attention I've always repat it in the

best one you have until you couldn't

take it

anymore I can't imagine what you're

talking about it's been a long hard ride

hasn't it K and now you want to get off

well you you're twisting it all up I

never said that and they don't treat you

so good anymore not for a long time

now it was because I stopped pretend I

like there a TR

I just sto

tending I don't have the strength

anymore I thought we'd get to that the

girl's got nothing to do with this

visit well there wasen any other place

to

go any place at

all what did you think you'd find

here from me oh God want to come home

again please let me come home she cried

last night she wants a

mother she thinks she needs

one that's a break for

you you're saying

yes he'll give me a full house how can I

lose for how long what does it mean well

how much time are you giv me week two

weeks and a month don't bargain with me

Cy G

home here in this house under the same

roof now because of her and her filthy

Scandal no family of good name has had

foot inside this door for 17 years it's

my sister coming back to her home again

this is my house it was hers long before

it was

yours who are you to talk to me like

that who are you Howard cson a drunker

and a thief that's right a thief how

many times has my son had to make up for

the money you've stolen how many times

have you've been caught with your hands

in the till for money to buy whiskey

till nobody in this town would hire you

to sweep out their floors so you hold

your

tongue let her come then but I'll never

set eyes on

her as long as she's here I'll stay in

my

room even if that room ends up my grave

she's

here she's

here for

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Benji

father my old Dan seems slippy kep

always time

you remember me

Benji you remember

me I've come to the same

har for

aren't you going to come kiss me

I let me

see I guess I kind rushed on you didn't

I but that was what I was waiting for

what was kful probably cracked your ribs

when I feel something I really feel it

I'm glad you feel it for

me

oh how lovely

the look at your face is

like like look move time washed away you

me you

are the most loved and cherished part of

even this is first time I've been able

to tell you

oh I must pour out my whole heart to you

you drown in it control of myself have

all strangers I have to give you time to

get used to me I don't need any

tell sweet

baby I could just eat you up if I'd let

myself I wouldn't mind oh well then I'm

going to take the lead and tell you

right off I think you're just the

pretest thing I ever saw you are I bet

you simply CLE by

bows oh you're talking to your mother

well your secrets are safe with me well

there aren't any well there will be

you're just the beginning of things is

it lucky I turned up just now cuz I get

the most lovely parties and that's what

you need parties to show you all well

this place could certainly do with

little festivity and then clothes now

well that's better make a start Mom I

don't care anything about clothes

clothes and parties are just B of the

trap a girl can't be too young well I'm

a graduate from a School of Hard KN so

you just listen to me security that's

what you're after the the Gil age kind

that comes with a wedding ring and

linens and family

silver mama what is it

honey I want to talk to you what that's

what we're doing we just getting

acquainted fast we

can I mean like that

you got to help

me were you in some kind of

trouble I've been in trouble since the

day you

left well tell me precious tell

me it's Jason he's a devil honey honey I

mean it you know living with him has

done something to me that just scares me

I hate him so much sometimes I feel like

I could kill him quick that's right kill

him

is this what I've come home to we talk

of kills and and mean little quarrels

and bad blood isn't enough this

beautiful old house is fall of pieces is

enough that that horrible woman up there

turn herself against me hiding away in a

room what how much more can a person

Bear

Mama if I was hurt you would help me if

I was bleeding to death you would come

run running well I am Bing to death and

you got to do something what could I

do you can go to him you can just go to

him and tell him to leave me alone just

that much and I'll call it even I want

to be a good mother to you that's been

my dream but I can't think straight when

things pour in on me from all sides Mom

all these years I never hated

you I just held on and held on

waiting for the day when you were going

to come back and you were going to make

it all up to me I said I won't hold

anything against her I said I don't care

if she doesn't love me she doesn't even

have to like me all she has to do is

stand up for

me that's the hardest thing of

all don't I have anything coming from

you now listen

here I'm tired I'm worn out I'm alone

well you're a young girl hooray well

don't think it's nothing being a young

girl my chan is all used up ain't going

to be

anymore hey you tried saying that to

yourself ain't going to be

anymore you passing up one right now to

be something to

me I I'll try I I don't want to lose you

twice

I really will

try now now listen now we'll have to

make a a

plan I'll go to him I'll be very firm

I'll tell him all this is going to stop

after don't I'm your mother I do I do

have something to say of course I have

to be careful well you know Jason he's

just waiting for me made mistake we

don't get me thrown out do we I have to

be very careful I forget it oh no no I'm

going to I want to it's all right Mama

don't think about it

anymore oh

my I look at fright oh my eyes all

puffing oh they so burning am I right

now you look fine

good night Mom

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let me up

yeah come on let me

wow look my folks in there they're

sleeping well they won't stay asleep

surprised to see me no no not a bit you

thought I'd come huh off for come on I'm

going to get up if you don't let me I'll

push you okay push

me come on let me up the sun's in my

face close your eyes I don't want to

what do you think I'll happen to you I

don't know something something good

maybe April

showers well thank you but I don't think

You' to be spending your money on me I

like girls that smell nice I think you

just like girls

period say you got pretty looking feet

you know most people

do you don't like to have yourself

talked about do you kind of makes you

jumpy huh just you buzzing

Ry you huming around my head like a

mosquito or

something you won't kiss me don't you

yeah well why don't you stop paying

compliments and making personal remarks

and

doing who taught you how to kiss

nobody taught me why what's the matter

nothing yes s you didn't like

it well you haven't done much of it have

you how you know cuz you don't do it

right you mean that's a right way and a

wrong way look when I'm kissed I want to

be hung on to I'll forget your nice will

you no and you better not forget it

either look I got theories about how to

live and making love willy-nilly and one

other oh come on no love is something

I'm very strict about you're losing me

baby look Charlie the way I feel about

it love is something that happens later

after you get to know somebody and like

them and trust them and resp well those

are my principles and you can laugh at

them but I don't think they're funny so

you better stop look I can't turn this

off and on

water huh well

come on now

you no thank you I hate hard lick I'd

rather drink gasoline I'm drinking us

being

friends be

friends all right

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I feel like I could set something more

far yeah

me you caring me that's right I'm caring

you way well I better hang on

Han that's all right that's what you

like in

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yeah everywhere I look I see your face

sure Works quick on you doesn't it

that's cuz I never had hard liquor

before

e

e e

really

home it's so silly I keep expecting

someone to knock on on the door and

present me with a bill hotels are such

awful things you leave a silk stock in

your PW of and you go where you

forgotten I love solid things I love

this house and all the

compsons the strong ones and the weak

ones course they belong to me they my

history ancient history oh there speaks

to thoughtless young why honey but

that's what's so wonderful well why you

go go look in your Granddaddy's Bible

you'll find the names of compsons there

turning yellow I think goes back back to

the dawn of

time well they stop a little short of

Adam oh they're making fun of us

Jason you tell them I am a latecomer why

do I have to remind all you people of

what we were well this was the most

gracious house in the county well you be

my daddy's day when a guest came used to

find the hallway clock stopped and it

would stay stopped until the day left

time would halt you the Happy Days of

his

visit now when you going to hold the

clock for me Jason my job is to keep

things running around here at my back I

hear times Wing your chariot hurrying

near don't I Jason what is

that it's for Miss carine she said she

just wants something light for supper

I'm CET Jason she's almost said eyes on

me that's why she won't come down she

never did like me she thought I put on

airs you thought I put on ears too Jason

I haven't forgotten

you what a fun little boy you were you

hardly spoke an English tone you were so

shy with those big black

eyes follow me around watch me all the

time I was watching to see which Fork

you used well I'm not going to be put

off by any such statement as that I know

when a boy is dazzled you mean he was in

love with you

yes as a matter of fact he

was but life is is full little iron as I

find the boy who came so shy with his

house now owns the house the boy who was

so respectful to his all now feeds us

all daddy turn over his grave you drink

to my it makes you

fanciful so we're real crude around here

are we well things are different they

are different all right somebody works

for a living now somebody sweats 10

hours a day to keep a roof over your

head maybe you think a Provident guard

will keep you of County relief because

your name is compson well look down the

road mes Mansion has Hast scking out of

its Windows Mr budro had the woodwork

brought in from England in 1833

but that doesn't keep chickens from

roosting in the living room where he

used to entertain

Colonels

well there are no chickens roosting in

this house it's a downright shame we

don't have 20 guests in the East Wing

anymore but the plumbing

Works maybe this wouldn't have been good

enough for Daddy compson it'll do for

me you have no respect for my father's

memory I don't know why

not she was preserved well enough in

something like 10,000 bottles of whiskey

no you have no

respect I got respect man is the kind

that pays bills and what about pride and

honor the day I got into this house it

was filled up with lawyers from Jackson

ready to carut the furniture away your

proud and honorable father set upstairs

in the bedroom with his bare feet

hanging out of his night shirt while a

servant filled up his glass because his

hands were shaking so he couldn't pour

it out for himself so that about takes

care of Pride and honor well you weren't

meant to live in this kind of a world

well that's life if you can't try the

horse you're on you'll have to get off

and walk now let me set the record

straight he gave me the name and I took

it and I took on all that went with it

so I'm going to put this family back on

its feet and once I've done that you can

bring old be Street and bedam in here

and two of them can sleep in my bed and

another one can have my place at the

table but until then hang on to me

compsons I'm all you've got

oh cross you

smile help

M the biggest hypocrite I ever saw you

don't like them and they don't like you

don't let each other know it that's

called Society well M mouth is what I

call it trying to make them forget

something it isn't easy this little Comm

has a long memory my shameful birth

Alexander Hamilton was illegitimate and

nobody tried to wash his face in public

she didn't live in Jefferson

Mississippi Jason I'm so hot my

underclothes are sticking to

me couldn't we stop at while as drugstor

and get some chocolate chip ice cream

we're going to Mrs M mansfields for

tea PA smells of dog and her cake taste

of soda and I'm getting sick and tired

of spending every Sunday this way you're

going to live in this stwn and you're

going to be accepted this St it's one

thing I'm going to do for you whether

you like it or not thank you very much

for nothing whatsoever and don't forget

to ask after her asthma Asma everybody

knows she gets that weed and drinking

too much bourbon she does drink it out

of a prescription bottle no sprawling

and no

smoking I in this town for 70 years I

was here before they had Pavements or

taxes or Mayes or Alder I've seen them

rise and I seen them fall I tell you the

compsons are in the dust and you aren't

going to raise him up by sweating and

working in that General Store and you

get your step brother off that porch and

put him to work and marry yourself some

healthy Stu mama takes a real interest

in you we all do but I'm going to scold

you Jason you don't come here often

enough well I'm afraid I wouldn't be

very good company I'm something of a

solitary Miss hey oh but that's wrong

that's that's hiding your light under a

busher you ought to get married Jason

I'm telling you Mrs Mansfield my

stepfather used to say a man is the sum

of his

misfortunes I think I'll go along just

adding mine up

mama has advice for everyone the only

problem she hasn't solved is

me how's that old Weise of yours Miss

Manfield

oh you sitting up to me in an ice cream

PA this is the

day there are many different sides to my

nature if men feel certainly think so

she's in love with you good and proper

she's downright Afflicted oh she is good

and proper you ought to make my love

her no thank you I'll go on being my own

har self if it's all the same to you

oh you're making a mess of that I like

it

melty you getting de and sympathy from

Miss Mansfield today too all that advice

to the love long poor unmarried

Jason why you up got married Jason don't

be pushy well I W know I got all the

women in my life I can take care of

right

now you know I wonder about you

you you've been on my man quite a bit

lately that's a new and flattering

attention well I mean you know the way

you always sming and feeling that can't

be cuz you always mad at me have

I well the point is what other feelings

do you have that's what I'd like to know

this childish

curiosity I'm no child then you to know

without asking well I

don't oh man is no different different

from a

woman same hopes same appetite same

desire same blind

Alle

oh might well say

oh you know some

H I think you're afraid of your own

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feelings you'd be afraid of them too

you know this first time we ever

talked it's the first time you weren't

just terrible Jason telling me to go to

school or

something I guess I forget that you're

still a young

man

comparatively and funny thing is I guess

some human creature could even be in

love with

you there's hope for me

yet course I can't imagine you being in

love C

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you let's go waiting how

how know what I'm mind to

do you listening

mhm I want to go

waiting and get my feet

cold we us to Old Time children me yeah

I get my drawers all

mudy D see fuss at me

oh I love this

place and I hate

it well how can you say

that why we grew up on this River

Bank this used to be my

Haven yeah I

know I watched

you

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h

all come to have Jason take me home he's

gone shots this

morning I ready to drop want to arrest

yourself Miss comson have a

chair keep I'm My Own

Bo come and go on my own time

well the sea

salw used to be a clever out here didn't

you you weren't so well off as you want

now well some rise up and some go the

other way that's a

story bath

oil I holding great but know water

around here is so hard I can't stand on

my skin I know what I'm going to do

about all these packages of course CU

I'm so silly and sweetest little boy

offer to take me home but he kept

staring at me and he was a stranger and

I so hot in

here for

something you want to I already got what

I

want what are you talking about I'm just

telling you even if the name is compson

after to close him time to roll a same

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Charlie get up

I'll kill him I'll kill him if he thinks

he can around the woods with you I don't

belong to you what's his name Charlie

Bush say it again Charlie Bush again

Charlie Bush I can feel your pulse jump

every time you say it and what are you

going to do about it slow it down this

is one time you're not going to get your

way no matter what you do to me you

don't know what I could do to you well I

don't care cuz I'm not afraid of you

anymore he made me feel like a woman

anybody could make you You Feel Like a

Woman

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you

see anybody

from now on I'm going to lock you in

that night and let you out in the

morning from now on I'm going to watch

you

here's nice little

tray where

you just going to sit

there you're just not going to say

anything you're

fool you're a little

fool you think you're going to come out

of this with Wedding Bells don't

you you think that boy is going to carry

you off to Never Never Land defend you

the whole

world was such a

child Jason knew what what he was doing

all

right lock you

up I wish someone would lock me up

Mr Snopes had a l to say about

you what are you

telling what lies he tell

you I suppose it's it's no good me ten

you the were lies

no no of course not you'll never believe

me why

bother I know you the Lord and Master

this little par of Del and everyone

trembles at the side of

you but you alone

Jason you're

alone you go into your room at night and

close the door

and if you died in there no one i' care

I would even know you'd been on

Earth I've reached out to

people sometimes some few wonderful

times they've reached out to me I've had

that I've suffered for it not suffer for

it again before I Chang places with

you very brave

caddy you mean having told told you the

truth I I've lost my bed and board well

I've lost

it God will help me through the winter

I'll get the spring I have

before you're not leaving

K this is home

and we'll keep it together all of

us because you're the only family I've

got for

all

you might as well listen to me because

I'm going to sit right here and I'm not

going to leave just go away will I'm not

going look I was scared you know it I

couldn't get out of there faster I

didn't even care what happened to charie

listen to me now you listen to me I'm no

little paper doll I don't need you to

fight fights for me I need you to stand

up for me you let yourself a real hero

you let me decide that for myself listen

you better hear a few things first what

you saw tonight was a real me without

any of the tremin when the going gets

tough I

run do you love

me Charlie do you love

me cuz if you say yes I'm going to

believe you

jie I'm going to go away with you right

now tonight I got exactly $6 I could

take it for long right in that that's

all right I know where there some money

it's all TI of a little box I only hope

it didn't

Confederate Charlie you wait for me no

running away this time

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Benji Ben Ben you talking me Ben

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I reckon she won't be climbing down that

no more

Jason is it true you taking Ben away Tak

him to that Asylum and Jackson no he'll

be happier that way with others like him

Jason I want to take that child B to

church first I want him to receive God's

blessing before he goes well don't talk

to me about

it take him

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Grandma why don't you stop that

cry I've seen the first and I seen the

last never you mind you seen the first

and last words never mind I seen the

beginning now I see

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the you ready that's one more

minute does he know what he's

by knows lots more than folks

thing you know this day was coming he

would have told you this time was coming

if he could talk that wasn't the first

time time it happened it'll happen again

you'll kill somebody and you know what

will happen after

that I also

know day was born his mother put him in

my

arms I raised him up I watched

him I've done my

crime and

finished taking

Jason my old fell let's go downstairs

for

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you're

Benjamin the last

bone sold him to Egypt

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bring no luck in this house

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what are you going to do when you catch

her I've got to find her first you

better think first what you're going to

do before you leave here A whole lot of

your life's mixed up with that child I

know what do you know old woman I know

you Jason and I ain't took in by the man

hauling around this house I remember a

little boy who used to hide in my

kitchen even in my life to me you ain't

so much different now from what you was

then I've just been robbed

Jason be careful or you're going to lose

a whole lot more on your money for

where's Mr Jess going grandma that's

some more of your business ain't it what

happened to miss Quinton

Grandma nothing's happened to her I bet

she gone and he after her I bet he catch

her you know what I bet I bet he kill

her knock her in the head and kill her

hush up luster hush

is there a Charlie Bush around here in

that trailer

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well we're finally all caught up with

each other so you're the one yeah that's

right I'm the one I ain't going to run

away this time Jason leave us alone if

you'll just leave us alone maybe for

once in my life I'll have a chance to be

happy all right I'll help you arrange it

son there's $3,000 in that

suitcase so what I just stated the fact

maybe you haven't had time to count it

Jason it's my money it's money was sent

to me by my mother to support me and

money you stole from me and now I'm

going to get some good out of it you can

take this girl get in the car and no one

will lay a hand on you or you can take

the

suitcase but not both

Charlie one or the other but not

both well answer him Charlie what are

you going to

do you haven't said what you're going to

do

Charlie you know damn well I'm going to

take the money

come on

home I want to be alone with him for a

minute you know I lost call when you see

one

when you look back at this remember it

didn't take me 2 seconds to make up my

mind I told you I was no good I told you

not the count of me didn't I I guess we

can't help being what we are

Charlie look honey he's gone we still

got the money all we got to do is hop in

my car take you to a big fancy hotel buy

a solid go W me you get married I show

you the time of life Quin you go by

yourself Charlie cuz I don't like you

anymore you see eventually you would

have come to the end of the money but I

would have gone on forever

besides I would have been too much woman

for you anyway

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you came near to losing your money every

I stolen s of it so I

did what were you going to do with it

Jason you don't have any Pleasures you

don't know how to enjoy yourself what we

going to spend it on on

you

no and no intention of having another

needy compson loose in the

world I made up my mind that wouldn't

happen twice in this

family so I've been living off

you

frugally all

right you know Jason you were right

about Charlie

but if it hadn't been him it would have

been somebody just like him cuz I was

ready for a Charlie Bush I grew up in a

big hurry because of

him but the big important thing is I

need somebody I got to find some love

for myself

somewhere now I won't go Shinning down

trees and I I won't run away at night

and I won't even bother to tell lies cuz

I've decided that's not

dignified but I'll keep on looking

that's absolutely certain Jason I'll

never stop looking cuz that's what my

life is all

about I'm a grown woman Jason and I need

what any grown woman needs and that's

respect and affection in case you don't

know so you're all grown

up yes I

am they stuck your way in the back room

when you were born with the blads down

every time you opened your mouth they

were afraid you'd yelling right out of

Jefferson's Society you were C's mistake

and there wed no part of

you but I took you out I put you on the

front porch I walked you down the

streets I sent you to the public schools

I red down their throats and I rounded

down

yours I raised you I fed you I put books

in your hands I thought you whatever

rail mors you have I put iron in your

backbone you're the first comson and 50

years who's gotten up off her knees and

now I can stand up to anybody even

me

girls they're not anything at

all and all of a sudden they're

everything yes Jason You Raised Me fed

me you put the books in my hands and all

the other things you're congratulating

yourself about but oh my friend you're

not done with me yet not by a long shot

Jason

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