Puzzle Piece Quotation #6

Kloverfield Log: February 17, 2011
Regarding the book, The Sound and The Fury
Quotations of Importance, puzzle pieces revealing the truth

Quotation #6

page 104

"There were about a dozen watches in the window, a dozen different hours and each with the same assertive and contradictory assurance that mine had, without any hands at all.  Contradicting one another.  I could hear mine, ticking away inside my pocket, even though nobody could see it, even though it could tell nothing if anyone could."

The third Quentin philosophy.  He is referring to a jeweller's window where watches are displayed and his own watch which he has broken.  The watch has no hands and no face.  It couldn't tell time if it wanted to, but is steadfastly ticking on like the watches in the window.  The watch does not care that it is useless, but it keeps ticking on.  Hey, I bet this is symbolic!