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CASH
I MADE IT ON THE BEVEL.
1. There is more surface for the nails to grip.
2. There is twice the gripping-surface to each seam.
3. The water will have to seep into it on a slant.
Water moves easiest up and down or straight
across.
4. In a house people are upright two-thirds of the
time. So the seams and joints are made up-and-
down. Because the stress is up-and-down.
5. In a bed where people lie down all the time, the
joints and seams are made sideways, because the
stress is sideways.
6. Except.
7. A body is not square like a cross-tie.
8. Animal magnetism.
9. The animal magnetism of a dead body makes the
stress come slanting, so the seams and joints of a
coffin are made on the bevel.
10. You can see by an old grave that the earth sinks
down on the bevel.
11. While in a natural hole it sinks by the centre, the
stress being up-and-down.
12. So I made it on the bevel.
13. It makes a neater job.

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Sound and the Fury & As I Lay Dying. Contributors: William Faulkner - author. Publisher: Modern Library. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1946. Page Number: 397.
    
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