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NL888 Posted 18 years ago
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kapow = divorce?

0 1) kapow = divorce?02br
002) there goes my baby = Beaver and Sue both disappear into distance?02br
003) somebody help me pick up the fnckin pieces = somebody lets me know the fncking pieces of their marriage story?02br
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00To say that Beaver's marriage didn't work would be like saying that the launch of the Challenger space shuttle went a little bit wrong. Joe "Beaver" Clarendon and Laurie Sue Kenopensky make it through eight months and then 01b00kapow02b00,there goes my baby, somebody help me pick up the fnckin pieces.0-
  

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01i001-- Kapow02i00 is onomatopoeia for an explosion, actual or metaphorical.02br
002-- I presume that it is Laurie Sue who disappears.02br
003-- 01i00Somebody help me recuperate from the traumatic stress of the marriage and/or the separation.02i0-
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0Thank you.02br
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00Regarding the 3, the "me" should be Laurie Sue. But why she says "there goes my baby?" 0-
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0 3-- 01i00Somebody help me recuperate from the traumatic stress of the marriage and/or the separation.02i02br
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00 I am very confused by the "me." Who's "me" in that context? Laurie Sue?0-
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0I'd not allovw the thread sink until my confusion turns into a fair clarity.0-
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0Hi,02br
00My guess is that it was Joe who talked about the separation between him and Laurie Sue.02br
01b00" ... kapow, 02b00there goes 01u00my02u00 baby, somebody help 01u00me02u00 ...01b00" 02b00(my baby = Laurie Sue, me = Joe).02br
00Hope that helps,02br
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0As the original poster, only you can help clear it up. Which person is speaking?0-
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0To Hoa Thai,02br
00I feel a bit clearer after reading your guess. But it seems quite strange that Beaver talks himself in third person.See more context as following.02br
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00To Grammar Geek,02br
00Well, the quote is from the first chapter SSDD of Stephen King's DREAMCATCHER. For the purpose of understanding it well enough, I now type out the broade
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0Hi,02br
00Evidently, Laurie Sue was with Joe before she left. Thus, 01i00my baby 02i00and 01i00me02i00 can only be Joe's words.02br
00Why did the author / narrator use 01i00my baby02i00 and 01i00me? 02i00Again, my guess is that he talked for Joe; he became Joe at that moment. That
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0That sounds holding water.02br
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01b00Native English speakers, we need you be here to confirm the point.02b0-
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0 I agree with Hoa Thai.0-
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