
Milkman

People in this place did give a fuck.
Anna Burns • Milkman
Not only was he not yet dead, he was well into having stepped up and closed in on foreplay predations.
Anna Burns • Milkman
new play of the latest martyr killed recently in the political problems: Renouncer Hero Milkman, shadowed, set upon, then gunned down in their usual cowardly fashion by that murder squad spawned by a terrorist state.
Anna Burns • Milkman
it came about that of everybody who had heard of the wooing of me by Milkman, third brother-in-law was the only one who, unquestioningly, hadn’t considered it to have taken place.
Anna Burns • Milkman
Not seeing mental wreckage then, seemed one of his downsides. As for the black eye, he did see that.
Anna Burns • Milkman
It was for being a man and coming into the Ladies
Anna Burns • Milkman
Nobody seemed bothered by the guns and I too, glancing at them, wasn’t bothered by them.
Anna Burns • Milkman
But it was a game – more toy soldiers on toy battlefields, more toy trains in the attic, hard men in their teens, hard men in their twenties, hard men in their thirties, in their forties, with the mentality being toys even if it was far from toys these men were playing with.
Anna Burns • Milkman
Thanks to Jason, who was in love with Nigel, her own husband, so not at all interested in that way in real milkman, ma, on hearing of the shooting, was able to reach the hospital first.