I’ve seed de first en de last…. I seed de beginnin, en now I sees de endin.

In this dialect-rendered line, the speaker claims a sweeping, almost prophetic vantage point: having witnessed both “the first” and “the last,” the “beginnin” and the “endin.” The repetition and shift from past (“I’ve seed… I seed…”) to present (“now I sees…”) suggests lived experience accumulating into grim certainty—what was once observed has become an immediate, unfolding conclusion. In Faulkner’s fiction, such utterances often come from marginalized or elderly voices whose testimony compresses personal memory into a larger historical arc, implying that cycles of violence, decline, or fate are not abstract ideas but things seen with one’s own eyes.