Quentin chapter: June second, 1910

From the beginning, I can tell Quentin is going crazy, and has been for a while now (title is 18 years before Benji's).  I can also get a sense for how much Quentin looks up to his Father, which seems to be a sort of poison.  I was very confused and slightly disturbed by the repeated phrase "I have committed incest I said".  I later put the pieces together and figured out it was triggered by his Father.  I don't think his Father's intention was to make him crazy with telling him about time and virginity, but it definitely unhinged him.  For example, Quentin narrates, "He said it was men invented virginity not women.  Father said it's like death: only a state in which the others are left and I said, But to believe it doesn't matter and he said, That's what's so sad about anything"(50).  This so obviously leads Quentin to telling his father he committed incest (referring to Caddy) so she doesn't lose her virginity to Dalton Ames and marry him.  

From an outsider's perspective looking in…what the heck is going on? What kind of deprivation is this kid going through to says such disturbing things just so his family can be together? Quentin seems to be more crazy to me than Benji, at least Benji doesn't understand his state of mental illness.  I'm interested in the reasons behind the triggers, other than those of the clock and blood.

I didn't think this chapter was going to be as difficult as the previous to read, but as the chapter progressed, his punctuation lessened, as so did my ability to understand from who's perspective he was speaking.  When he spoke of the past, he often used something another character had said, farther confusing me… sometimes I caught it from memory, but really Faulkner! Who can remember every line of every character without constantly flipping through! Ugh I hope it gets easier.