Quotes Norman Mcaig

Question 1

Brooklen cop quotes

Answer 1

“Built like a gorilla but less timid”
“Thick fleshed Steak coloured “
“With two hieroglyphs in his face that mean trouble”
“Should the tissue tear, should he plunge through into violence”

Question 2

Hotel room 12th Floor quotes

Answer 2

“Jumbo sized dentist drill”
“but now midnight has came in from foreign places”
“But midnight is not so easily defeated”

Question 3

Assisi Quotes

Answer 3

“hands in backwards”
“sat slumped”
“clucking contentedly”
“whose eyes wept pus, whose back was higher than his head, whose lopsided mouth”

Question 4

Aunt Julia quotes

Answer 4

“i could not answer her i could not understand her”
“ right hand drew yarn marvellously out the air”
“Aunt julia spoke gaelic very loud and very fast”
“By the time i had learned a little, she lay silenced in the absolute black”

Question 5

Basking Shark Quotes

Answer 5

“to stub an oar on a rock where none should be”
“room sized monster with a matchbox brain”

Question 6

Visiting hour Quote

Answer 6

“the hospital smell”
“i will not feel, i will nit feel, until i have to”