I thought it would be interesting to look at imagery in Quentin's section and compare it with imagery from Alice in Wonderland (bear in mind I've never read the book and only seen the movie once when I was like 7). Alice's journey through wonderland was triggered by her pursuit of the white rabbit, and I think that white rabbit can be paralleled with Quentin's old south. This Old South ideology that Quentin teases himself with is far gone both culturally and personally for Quentin, and even though a big portion of his musings reflect a longing for the Old South, it is unattainable, much like the white rabbit Alice chases. Quentin had a big struggle with time, as evidenced by his destruction of the watch his father passed down to him and his obsession with the idea of time. I think the whole idea that time isn't real, and the style Faulkner uses to portray what goes through Quentin's mind really skews the perception in this chapter, and the seemingly distorted reality is similar in many ways to Wonderland where everything has a sort of grounding in reality but is clearly skewed and unreal and difficult to understand. One scene I remember from the movie is when Alice is falling down the rabbit hole, and forgive me if I don't remember this correctly, but I think as she falls she gets surrounded by images of the real world as they become images of Wonderland (am I mixing this up with the tornado scene from the Wizard of Oz?). Anyway, if that's right, then Quentin's migration from Mississippi to Massachussets is definitely reminiscent of this sort of fall from grace into a haunted wonderland - as the things he leaves behind begin to fall apart and he has to fend for himself in this altered reality. Oh, and I suppose that the creepy cat that follows Alice around is like voices of Quentin's father and mother which manifest themselves inside his head. And I'm not sure what to make of Quentin's obsession with Caddy, because that still freaks me out a little bit.