Main Title: As I Lay Dying
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Author: Faulkner, William
First Published: 1930
Publisher Used for Citing: Vintage
Type: Fiction
Period: 20th Century

I saw Vardaman rise and go to the window and strike the knife into the fish, the blood gushing, hissing like steam but I could not see.


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