SLSL Get Back

jbor jbor at bigpond.com
Tue Dec 3 02:01:38 CST 2002


on 3/12/02 2:09 AM, William Zantzinger at williamzantzinger at yahoo.com wrote:

> "Sometimes I almost wish I was back at City. And
> that's bad." 
> "Why bad?" Picnic said. "I'd rather be back at the
> Academy any day than doing this crap."
> "No," Levine said frowning, "you don't go back. I only
> went back once that I can remember and that was to a
> broad. And that was bad too."
> "Yeah," Picnic said. "You told me. You should have
> gone back. I wish I could. Back to the barracks, even,
> and go to sleep."
> "You can sleep anywhere," Levine said. "I can."
> 
> Page 35 SL/TSR
> 
> Does this make sense to anyone?
> 
> Why does Picnic say, "You should have gone back"?

I might be missing something totally obvious, but the only way I can make
sense of it is as a typo for "You shouldn't have gone back."

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