Did you ever hear of a mongol child, Skinner? I told you a lie about our Declan. That’s what Declan is. He’s not just shy , our Declan. He’s a mongol. And it’s for him I go on all the civil rights marches. Isn’t that stupid? You and him and everybody else else marching and protesting about sensible things like politics and stuff and me in the middle of you all, marching for Declan. Isn’t that the stupidest thing you ever heard? Sure I could march and protest from here to Dublin and sure what good would it do Declan? Stupid and all as I am I know that much. But I still march- every Sunday. Isn’t that the stupidest thing you ever heard?
That’s what the chairman said when I- you know- when I tried to tell him what I was thinking. He never talks about him; you can’t even look at him. And that day that’s what he said, “You’re a bone stupid bitch. No wonder the kid’s bone stupid too.” The chairman- that’s what he said.