"So we beat on, boats against the current"

He felt no surprise. Time, the spaces of light and dark, had long since lost orderliness. It would be either one now, seemingly at in instant, between two movements of the eyelids, without warning. He could never know when he would pass from one to the other, when he would find that he had been asleep without remembering having laid down, or find himself walking without remembering having waked. Sometimes it would seem to him that a night of sleep, in hay, in a ditch, beneath an abandoned roof, would be followed immediately by another night without interval of day, without light between to see to flee by; that a day would be followed by another day filled with fleeing and urgency, without any night between or any interval for rest, as if the sun had not set but instead had turned in the sky before reaching the horizon and retraced its way. When he went to sleep walking or even kneeling in the act of drinking from a spring he could never know if his eyes would open next upon sunlight or upon stars.

—William Faulkner, Light in August