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--almost before you're half-acquainted with life--

sincere as a bird-call blown on a hunter's whistle,

[This speech should have torrential pace and fury.]

BIG DADDY: Ignorance--of mortality--is a comfort. A man don't have that comfort, he's the only living thing that conceives of death, that knows what it is. The others go without knowing, which is the way that anything living should go, go without knowing, without any knowledge of it, and yet a pig squeals, . . .

BIG DADDY: You stood on the wrong side of the moon, it threw your shadow!

[Brick meets his father's hard, intent, grinning stare with a slow, vague smile that he offers all situations from behind the screen of his liquor.]