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This study closely reads and analyzes William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying utilizing Gilles Deleuze’s critical and philosophical concepts— event, sense, paradoxes. Gilles Deleuze’s Logic of Sense explicates how events emerge and bring forth series which on the surface abuts sense that, corresponding with events, coexists with nonsense. According to Deleuze, sense and nonsense are in the same realm of meaning albeit extending in opposite directions. This paper in the first section summarizes and exemplifies Delezue’s logic of event and sense as well as Stoic philosophy and ethics. With this theoretical and philosophical scaffoldings, the paper delineates paradox of death and life in Addie’s narrative; Addie’s paradox and its implication of Stoic ethics resonate with Darl’s paradoxical speculation on being and Stoic ethics of absolute acceptance of the fate. Darl’s philosophical speculation also connotes paradoxical concomitance of sense and nonsense. The paper then explores more obscure paradoxes in Vaderman’s nonsensical analogy of mother and fish. Vaderman, implicating paradoxes in Addie’s narrative and Darl’s ethics, reveals the true meaning of univocity of being in chaos. In the final section, the paper implicates further studies on other literary works utilizing Deleuze’s idea of sense and nonsense.