Both Uses of
paradox
in
The Sound and the Fury
- …swungaround the curve, the enginepuffing with short, heavyblasts, and they passed smoothlyfrom sight that way, with that quality about them of shabby and timeless patience, of staticserenity: thatblending of childlike and ready incompetence and paradoxical reliability that tends and protects them it loves out of allreason and robs them steadily and evades responsibilityand obligations by means toobarefaced to be called subterfuge even and is taken in theft or evasion with only that…†
Chpt 2
- all stable things had become shadowy paradoxical
Chpt 2 *paradoxical = seeming impossible (at least on first impression) because things that seem true contradict each other
Definition:
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(paradox) a situation or statement that may be true but is surprising or seems impossible because parts of it seem to contradict each other