Peering Over My Shoulder

McMurphy:  ‘“Chief, I’ll be d***** if I ever saw anything so slow!”’ (Kesey 249)

Jack:  ‘“Oh that is nonsense; you are always talking nonsense.”’ (Wilde 42)

Maxine:  “Imagine opening your eyes and seeing something like that first thing in the

                 morning.”’ (Lahiri 128)

McMurphy:  ‘“You know—that old clock up there puts me in mind of the targets at the target range at Fort Riley.”’ (Kesey 104)

Maxine:  ‘“That’s one way of putting it.”’ (Lahiri 135)

Jack:  ‘“May I ask then what you would advise…to do?”’ (Wilde 14)

McMurphy:  ‘“Can’t you even ease down the volume?”’ (Kesey 105)

Jack:  ‘“Well, I don’t see how I could possibly manage to do that.”’ (Wilde 15)

McMurphy:  ‘“do you want to know what I think? I think you are being very selfish.”’ (Kesey 106)

Jack:  ‘“Well, I won’t argue the matter. You always want to argue about things.”’ (Wilde 15)

McMurphy:  [looking at my essay] ‘“Is it a workable idea?”’ (Kesey 111)

Jack:  ‘“Nothing!”’ (Wilde 17)

McMurphy:  ‘“I’m rather enthused about it myself”’ (Kesey 111).

Jack:  ‘“My dear fellow, the sooner you give up that nonsense the better.”’ (Wilde 42)

McMurphy:  ‘“But I tried, though…didn’t I?”’ (Kesey 125)

Maxine:  ‘“Why on earth would they mind?”’ (Lahiri 129)

Jack:  [readdressing my essay] ‘“It pains me very much to have to speak frankly to you… but the fact is that I do not approve at all”’ (Wilde 48).

McMurphy:  ‘“Y’Know I was beginnin’ to think we might never get down to it.”’ (Kesey 273)

Jack:  ‘“I fear there can be no possible doubt about the matter.”’ (Wilde 48)

How I will feel during the AP test!