Faulkner rindo da nossa cara em Los Angeles Faulkner usou essa cena lindíssima de um fósforo aceso no meio da noite mais de uma vez. Acho que a mais famosa é essa aí, de Luz em Agosto [ Light in August ], onde a coisa é quase um motive – volta e meia aparece o personagem principal acendendo um fósforo no meio do escuro: "So Christmas lit the cigarette and snapped the match toward the open door, watching the flame vanish in midair. Then he was listening for the light, trivial sound which the dead match would make when it struck the floor. And then it seemed to him that he heard it. Then it seemed to him, sitting on a cot in a dark room, that he was hearing a myriad sounds of no greater volume-- voices, murmurs, whispers, of trees, darkness, earth, people, his own voice, other voices evocative of names and times and places-- which he had been conscious of all his life without knowing it, which were his life, thinking God perhaps and me not knowing that too . He could see it ...