The Close of April 7th, 1928 and At the Gate of the Path to Eighteen Years Ago

Kloverfield Log: February 12, 2011
Regarding the book, The Sound and The Fury, pages 62-92

Through my traverses of the land of Sounding Fury, I begin to get the feeling that I should be getting anxious, or nervous, or...something other than calm and easy-going, as is my natural nature(I'm sorry. That was awfully redundant).  The time changes are occurring with more frequency and more anxiety.  The content of each scene is becoming more and more emotional and stressful.
There was a curious scene.  Benjy tells of "bright shapes." It seems that upon his ignorance, our eyes into this world are plagued with seizures.  I do not know what else an onslaught of bright shapes would entail.
Oh, the agony! Our dear ignorant, innocent Benjy has started to repeat himself, I am sure.  There is deja-vu all over the place.  Yet, I see nothing of significance in these repeated trips. Are they only there to throw a poor wanderer like me off the trail of truth by throwing out a shiny little repeated scene along the wayside and force one to follow footsteps that lead nowhere? Oh, the melodramatic!
*dun dun dunnnn* A graveyard.  Has there perhaps been foul play? Who is to know?
It appears that Benjy was at one time called Maury.  There has been mentioned an Uncle Maury, who is clearly not our Benjy.  Several flashbacks are dedicated to the family's attempts at telling him his new name.  It is curious.  He never refers to himself by name, only as I.  Does he even see himself as a labeled being?  And on top of that, his mother seems awfully emotional by training him to his name.
Benjy pays attention to details, the most insignificant ones too, it seems, but I am sure they will be important later on.  He particularly mentions smell.  For example, one of the most oftenly repeated statements is "Caddy smelled like trees." Then he mentions that his father, Versh(whom I think is a black servant), and Quentin all smell of rain.
OH! Quentin!!!! I loathe Quentin. Every mention of Quentin has me confused.  There have been mention after mention of Quentin that speaks of...Quentin as a she, as a girl.  Then, all of a sudden, Quentin is a boy.  The back cover and the appendices of the book both say that Quentin is a boy, but there is places where the name Quentin is always paired with the pronouns of she and her.  I don't understand!!! I just want to push Quentin off of a cliff. Or I may be wanting to push Faulkner off a cliff, but either way, it's awfully horribly terribly annoying.
Now that I am off my rant, I have made it through the first third of the land of Sounding Fury.  The first section of the book is simply titled, April Seventh, 1928.  At last there is a clear flashback.  The second leg of my journey is labeled, June Second, 1910.  For a moment I can rest and ponder.  What will June 2nd of eighteen years ago reveal? Will the second leg of my epic journey leave my sanity unscathed?(Yes! I've been looking for a place to put that in.) Only time will tell.

Kloverfield Out.