quote from Behan
I’ve just finished reading Borstal Boy by Brendan Behan. Here is a good quote about the troubles of a particular prison governor:
>…the PO looked at the governor who looked up slowly and said:
“You - er - heard that - er, Behan? That charge that the officer has just read?”
>’I did, sir,’ said I, with my hands at the seams of my trousers and looking manly, admitting my fault to to this tired old consul, weary from his labours among the lesser breeds, admininistering the King’s justice equal and fairly to wild Irish and turbulant Pathan, teaching fair play to the wily Arab and a sense of sportsmanship to the smooth Confucian. In my ballocks, said I in my own mind, you George-Arliss-headed fughpig, dull scruffy old creeping Jesus, gone past the Bengal Lancer act to where you started, like a got-up gentleman with a Curragh cap. Bejasus, any decent horse would drop dead from the shame if he managed to get up on it’s back. ‘I did, sir.’
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