I’ve decided to copy my wife's “dog-eared” feature. These posts will contain quotations from books, music, movies, and whatever else I feel like sharing.
The Caine Mutiny
“What makes you think he’d be good for the Caine case?”
“Well, sir, Maryk is a dead pigeon, the way I see it, and Barney goes for that kind of case.” Challee paused. “I guess you’d call him odd in a way. Very odd. I’m used to him. He’s from Albuquerque. Barney is interested as hell in the Indians. You might say he’s nuts on the subject. He specialized in Indian cases after getting out of law school—won a lot of them, too. He was working up a pretty good general practice in Washington, before he joined up—”
“What was he, ROTC?”
“No. V7, then switched to air.”
Breakstone pulled at his nose with thumb and forefinger for several seconds. “Sounds like he might be pinko.”
Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny, pages 349–50.
