He was desperately communicating that he was a hack. Nobody listened.

>>7714734
nabby pls

>>7714728

I think an approach looking for concrete meaning is misguided. Stream of consciousness is based on the way our thoughts actually work, which in actuality, aren't always perfectly coherent, especially under stress. Quentin committed suicide the same day he had this thought.

That being said it's Quentin referring to an independent thought kernel, Father, and revolving associated thoughts and concepts around that sphere. Will you/ I will is clipped remembered dialogue, fathering his father is some freudian bullshit probably having to do with his inability to reconcile his love for caddy and his place in the family. Quentin is in a permanent struggle for dominance, one that he ultimately loses. Not just vs. time, but vs. his father and his sister's suitors. He loses. This thought clip is a reflection of that conflict in the half thought forms that flit through you in every moment. Philoprogenitive, meaning to be more successful in the fathering of offspring, is an extension of this. He wants to be more than his father, when ultimately, he will be nothing.

That's what I think. I read this about a year ago.