SLPAD - 51 - riding with Picnic

[Michael Bailey]

“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,” Pic said. “You told me. You should have gone back.”



The Academy would be where Picnic took his training?

Although he says he went back “to a broad”, Picnic’s had the whole story,
and it sounds like he didn’t really.

But he does seem to have a philosophical tenet of not going back. Not a
budding Proust, then.


As they drive in a landscape alternating between “poor-looking farmland”
and swamp, Levine offers the book to Picnic (when he’s finished), saying,

“It’s pretty good. All about swamps. And this broad that lives in them.”

This prompts a fantasy from Picnic about shacking up in the swamp with a
“broad.”

Like to know where he got that notion (-;

https://youtu.be/FfBwsG8ubFw