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  • The boys joking about the Major buggering his mother/grandmother/dog before breakfast.
  • The discussion of love and sex:
    "Do you believe in love, Hank dear?"
    "I believe in a good screw."
  • This exchange:
    Garraty: What if they all hiss and boo and throw canteens at him, or something?
    Stebbins: Are you going to hiss and boo and throw your canteen?
    Garraty: No.
    Stebbins: Neither will anyone else. You'll see.
  • The response of one Walker to the guards setting up a beach umbrella for themselves: "You sonsabitches! My Prize is gonna be your public castration!"
    Narration: The soldiers did not look exactly struck to the heart with terror at the thought.
  • Abraham's essay on why he'd be a good candidate for the Long Walk:
    "I feel qualified to participate in the Long Walk because I am one useless S.O.B. and the world would be better off without me, unless I happened to win, in which case I would buy a Van Go to put in every room of my manshun and order up sixty high-class horrs and not bother anybody." ... and then I put in parenthesis, (I would give all my sixty high-class horrs old-age pensions, too.)"
  • Olson isn't exactly impressed by Barkovitch's "Plan," which involves Barkovitch getting three warnings right off the bat, forcing him to walk at full speed for three hours, and meaning that any slip-ups in the first hour will get him killed.
    “Your Plan and the stuff that comes out of my asshole bear a suspicious resemblance to each other."

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