fpw Wrote:[SIZE="3"]Even I don't know. I never gave him one.[/SIZE]
Paul, I think you gave a little away. Jack is of Irish heritage. On page 302 of the paperback GATEWAYS, Jack's father says, "You don't know how many nights I've lain awake and imagined my hands around his throat, squeezing the life out of him." I have =never= heard any except the Irish use the phrase, "squeezing the life..." My foster-father would take me, when I was little, to his Irish bar in Greenpoint. And the patrons would make much of me: "Tha's yer soon, John? A foine lad!" And I'd take sips from their drafts. Cool to be with the big guys! And one afternoon, a foight broke out. Daddy and his friends got up and shielded me from the fighters. But I peeked around. Two big men, and one says to the other, "Gamme yer bes' two, and then Oi'll get me hands on yer neck and squeeze the fookin' loife outta ya." And I've heard that phrase again from Irish folk. Never from anyone else. Am I roight? (That =you're= a fictioneer of Irish heritage is besoides tha point...
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