To support this contention, Blythe and many students cite as a key piece of evidence the narrator's explanation of why Homer did not marry Emily: Then we said, "She will persuade him yet," because Homer himself had remarked--he liked men, and it was known that he drank with the younger men in the Elks' Club--that he was not a marrying man. (126) The comment is not, of course, Faulkner's, nor is it entirely a paraphrase of Homer's original comment, as Blythe suggests it is. ... Then they could hear the invisible watch ticking at the end of the gold chain. (120-121) ...

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Augustine was understood Paul's word "mysterion" to be "sacramentum" and thought of marriage as described by Paul to be a visible sign of invisible union between Christ and his spouse, the church. ... When a man and a woman come together in marriage they do so to fulfill the plan that God has set before them. ...

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