Passage: "Hey," Stradlater said. "Wanna do me a big favor?" "What?" I said. Not too enthusiastic. He was always asking you to do him a big favor. You take a very handsome guy, or a guy that thinks he's a real hot-shot, and they're always asking you to do them a big favor. Just because they're crazy about themself, they think you're crazy about them, too, and that you're just dying to do them a favor. It's sort of funny, in a way.
Passage: "Then this girl gets killed, because she's always speeding. That story just about killed me. What I like best is a book that's a least funny once in a while...What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you feel like it." (22)
Passage: "You remember I said before that Ackley was a slob in his personal habits? Well, so was Stradlater, but in a different way. Stradlater was more of a secret slob. He always looked all right, Stradlater, but for instance, you should've seen the razor he shaved himself with. It was always rusty as hell and full of lather and hairs and crap. He never cleaned it out or anything. He always looked good when he was finished fixing himself up, but he was a secret slob anyway, if you knew him the way I did." Pg 31
He put my goddamn paper down then and looked at me like he'd just beaten hell out of me in ping-pong or something. I don't think i’ll ever forgive him for reading me that crap out loud. I wouldn't've read it out loud to him if he'd written it--- I really would’nt. In the first place, i’d only written that damn note so that he wouldn’t feel too bad about flunking me. (15)
Passage: "Oh, I have only a few qualms, all right. Sure...but not too many. Not yet anyway. I guess it hasn't really hit me yet. It takes things a while to hit me. All I'm doing right now is thinking about going home Wednesday. I'm a moron."
"Do you feel absolutely no concern for your future, boy?... Oh I feel some concern for my future all right. Sure. Sure I do." I thought about it for a minute. "But not too much, I guess. Not too much, I guess... You will," old Spencer said "You will, boy. You will when it's too late." (20)
"Well, you could see he really felt pretty lousy about flunking me. So I shot the bull for a while. I told him I was a real moron, and all that stuff. I told him how I would've done exactly the same thing if I'd been in his place, and how most people didn't appreciate how tough it is being a teacher." (Page 12-13)
"Well, you could see he really felt pretty lousy about flunking me. So I shot the bull for a while. I told him I was a real moron, and all that stuff. I told him how I would've done exactly the same thing if I'd been in his place, and how most people didn't appreciate how tough it is being a teacher." (Page 12-13)
I got bored sitting on that washbowl after a while, so I backed up a few feet and started doing this tap dance, just for the hell of it. I was just amusing myself. I cant really tap dance or anything, but it was a stone floor in the can, and it was good for tap dancing. I started imitating one of those guys in the movies. In one of those musicals. I hate the movies like poison, but I get a bang imitating them. Old Stradlater watched me in the mirror while he was shaving. All I need's an audience. I'm an exhibitionist.
Just thought it was an interesting passage. A bit of lightheartedness :)
Passage: "Hey," Stradlater said. "Wanna do me a big favor?" "What?" I said. Not too enthusiastic. He was always asking you to do him a big favor. You take a very handsome guy, or a guy that thinks he's a real hot-shot, and they're always asking you to do them a big favor. Just because they're crazy about themself, they think you're crazy about them, too, and that you're just dying to do them a favor. It's sort of funny, in a way.
ReplyDeletePassage: "Then this girl gets killed, because she's always speeding. That story just about killed me. What I like best is a book that's a least funny once in a while...What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you feel like it." (22)
ReplyDeletePassage: "You remember I said before that Ackley was a slob in his personal habits? Well, so was Stradlater, but in a different way. Stradlater was more of a secret slob. He always looked all right, Stradlater, but for instance, you should've seen the razor he shaved himself with. It was always rusty as hell and full of lather and hairs and crap. He never cleaned it out or anything. He always looked good when he was finished fixing himself up, but he was a secret slob anyway, if you knew him the way I did." Pg 31
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ReplyDeleteHe put my goddamn paper down then and looked at me like he'd just beaten hell out of me in ping-pong or something. I don't think i’ll ever forgive him for reading me that crap out loud. I wouldn't've read it out loud to him if he'd written it--- I really would’nt. In the first place, i’d only written that damn note so that he wouldn’t feel too bad about flunking me. (15)
Passage: "Oh, I have only a few qualms, all right. Sure...but not too many. Not yet anyway. I guess it hasn't really hit me yet. It takes things a while to hit me. All I'm doing right now is thinking about going home Wednesday. I'm a moron."
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ReplyDelete"Do you feel absolutely no concern for your future, boy?... Oh I feel some concern for my future all right. Sure. Sure I do." I thought about it for a minute. "But not too much, I guess. Not too much, I guess... You will," old Spencer said "You will, boy. You will when it's too late." (20)
ReplyDelete"Well, you could see he really felt pretty lousy about flunking me. So I shot the bull for a while. I told him I was a real moron, and all that stuff. I told him how I would've done exactly the same thing if I'd been in his place, and how most people didn't appreciate how tough it is being a teacher." (Page 12-13)
ReplyDelete"Well, you could see he really felt pretty lousy about flunking me. So I shot the bull for a while. I told him I was a real moron, and all that stuff. I told him how I would've done exactly the same thing if I'd been in his place, and how most people didn't appreciate how tough it is being a teacher." (Page 12-13)
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ReplyDeleteI got bored sitting on that washbowl after a while, so I backed up a few feet and started doing this tap dance, just for the hell of it. I was just amusing myself. I cant really tap dance or anything, but it was a stone floor in the can, and it was good for tap dancing. I started imitating one of those guys in the movies. In one of those musicals. I hate the movies like poison, but I get a bang imitating them. Old Stradlater watched me in the mirror while he was shaving. All I need's an audience. I'm an exhibitionist.
Just thought it was an interesting passage. A bit of lightheartedness :)