sink or swim, pig-butt.
quoyle, this is your father. calling you. dicky's machine is full. your home one's broke. well. it's time for your mother and i to go.
instructions about the undertaker. the cremation. on the dining room table.
you'll have to make your own way. i did. nobody gave me nuthin'. other men woulda give up, turned to bums. i sweated, wheeled barrows of sand, went without so you and yer brother could have advantages. not that you did much with your chances.
hasn't been much of a life. tell dicky and my sister agnis hamm. her number's on the dining room ta.