Quentin relates this section on the day of his suicide on a June day in 1910. He wakes in his room at Harvard, between seven and eight o'clock, hearing the ticking of his grandfather's watch which was given to him by his father, "not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it."
Quentin is obsessed with time and trying to hide from it. He turns his watch face down on the dresser, but from the sun's rays coming through the shutter he can tell the time, so he turns his back to them, and listens to his friend Shreve moving around in the room next door. As soon as he cannot see the time, he.....
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