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- 1064 That got him really mad. He shook his big stupid finger in my face. "Holden, God
1065 damn it, I'm warning you, now. For the last time. If you don't keep your yap shut, I'm
1066 gonna--"
1067 "Why should I?" I said--I was practically yelling. "That's just the trouble with all
1068 you morons. You never want to discuss anything. That's the way you can always tell a
1069 moron. They never want to discuss anything intellig--"
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1070 Then he really let one go at me, and the next thing I knew I was on the goddam
1071 floor again. I don't remember if he knocked me out or not, but I don't think so. It's pretty
1072 hard to knock a guy out, except in the goddam movies. But my nose was bleeding all
1073 over the place. When I looked up old Stradlater was standing practically right on top of
1074 me. He had his goddam toilet kit under his arm. "Why the hell don'tcha shut up when I
1075 tellya to?" he said. He sounded pretty nervous. He probably was scared he'd fractured my
1076 skull or something when I hit the floor. It's too bad I didn't. "You asked for it, God damn
1077 it," he said. Boy, did he look worried.
1078 I didn't even bother to get up. I just lay there in the floor for a while, and kept
1079 calling him a moron sonuvabitch. I was so mad, I was practically bawling.
1080 "Listen. Go wash your face," Stradlater said. "Ya hear me?"
1081 I told him to go wash his own moron face--which was a pretty childish thing to
1082 say, but I was mad as hell. I told him to stop off on the way to the can and give Mrs.
1083 Schmidt the time. Mrs. Schmidt was the janitor's wife. She was around sixty-five.
1084 I kept sitting there on the floor till I heard old Stradlater close the door and go
1085 down the corridor to the can. Then I got up. I couldn't find my goddam hunting hat
1086 anywhere. Finally I found it. It was under the bed. I put it on, and turned the old peak
1087 around to the back, the way I liked it, and then I went over and took a look at my stupid
1088 face in the mirror. You never saw such gore in your life. I had blood all over my mouth
1089 and chin and even on my pajamas and bath robe. It partly scared me and it partly
1090 fascinated me. All that blood and all sort of made me look tough. I'd only been in about
1091 two fights in my life, and I lost both of them. I'm not too tough. I'm a pacifist, if you want
1092 to know the truth.
1093 I had a feeling old Ackley'd probably heard all the racket and was awake. So I
1094 went through the shower curtains into his room, just to see what the hell he was doing. I
1095 hardly ever went over to his room. It always had a funny stink in it, because he was so
1096 crumby in his personal habits.
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