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Maybe he had larynx damage, or a destroyed trachea; maybe he'd been hit in the throat by a chunk of granite. How could a man like him know what to say about Owen Meany? He called Owen's parents monstrous, while he I thought he was excessively proud of himself-and that he treated his parents harshly. He had no known contact with the British Gravesend, although that is surely where the name of our town came from.

I began to scheme-not at all in the manner of an eleven-year-old, but in the manner of an older, horny boy. But how could the role be denied Mary Beth Baird now that it had been offered? Mary Beth Baird was a wholesome lump of a girl, shy and clumsy and plain. The Christ is born- miraculously, to be sure; but even more miraculous are the demands he succeeds in making I realized that a part of the reason why Owen had wanted to come to Sawyer Depot was to give himself an opportunity to impress Hester's parents.