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Billy: No, Bobby, no...!
BILLY: Babbybobby. I daresay I owe you an explanation. BOBBY:
There's no need to explain, Billy. BILLY: I want to, Bobby. See, I
never thought at all this day would come when I'd have to explain. I'd
hoped I'd disappear forever to America. And I would've too, if they'd
wanted me there. If they'd wanted me for the filming. But they didn't
want me. A blond lad from Fort Lauderdale they hired instead of me. He
wasn't crippled at all, but the Yank said, "Ah, better to get a normal
fella who can act crippled than a crippled fella who can't fecking act
at all." Except he said it ruder. I thought I'd done alright
for meself with me acting. Hours I practised in me hotel there. And all
for nothing. I gave it a go anyways. I had to give it a go. I
had to get away from this place, Babbybobby, be any means, just like me
mammy and daddy had to get away from this place. Going drowning
meself I'd often think of when I was here, just to . . . just to end
the laughing at me, and the sniping at me, and the life of nothing but
shuffling to the doctor's and shuffling back from the doctor's and
pawing over the same oul books and finding any other way to ***
another day away. Another day of sniggering, or the patting me on the
head like a broken-brained gosawer. The village orphan. The village
cripple, and nothing more. Well, there are plenty round here just as
crippled as me, only it isn't on the outside it shows. But the
thing is, you're not one of them, Babbybobby, nor never were. You've a
kind heart on you. I suppose that's why it was so easy to cod you with
the TB letter, but that's why I was so sorry for codding you at the
time and why I'm just as sorry now.
Especially for codding you with the same thing your Mrs. passed from. Just I thought that would be more effective.
But, in the long run, I thought, or I hoped, that if you had a choice between you being codded a while and me doing away with
meself, once your anger had died down anyways, you'd choose you beingcodded every time.
Was I wrong, Babbybobby? Was I? BOBBY: Aye.
Billy: No, Bobby, no...!
Billy: No, Bobby, no...!
Billy: No, Bobby, no...!