Meditações - the mausoleum of all hope and desire

It was Grandfather's and when Father gave it to me he said I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire; it's rather excruciatingly apt that you will use it to gain the reducto absurdum of all human experience which can fit your individual needs no better than it fitted his or his father's.

A personagem Quentin, sobre o seu relógio, em O Som e a Fúria, de William Faulkner