"Okay, kid," Walker said, "This is it." And it was the absurdity of the phrase - nobody said "This is it"… — Richard Yates
"Okay, kid," Walker said, "This is it."
And it was the absurdity of the phrase - nobody said "This is it" except in the movies, unless they were phoney bastards like Loomis - that roused Prentice to his first real anger of the morning. He wanted to smash and break the head of anyone stupid enough to say a thing like that; he wanted to kill all the posturing fraudulence in the world, and it was all here before him in this big, dumb, bobbing face.
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