Falcon says simply, “No.”
This expresses a lot about how he feels about the situation they’re in, but it also reminded me of something.
In an episode of a classic radio comedy show Vic ‘n Sade, from the 1930s and 1940s, Vic has come home from his job at the kitchenware plant (to the “small house halfway up in the next block”) for lunch.
Instead of finding lunch on the table, he finds Sade (his wife) and Rush (their son) sitting on the back steps. Lunch isn’t ready, because Sade is making beef punkles, and, as she reminds him, beef punkles take four full hours to get tender.
The three of them chat about other things, with Vic periodically coming back to the fact that lunch still isn’t ready, and Sade reminding him again about how long it takes for beef punkles to get tender.
Finally, he asks if Sade could have started the beef punkles earlier.
“No,” Sade serenely replies.
Falcon’s “No” reminds me of Sade’s, but who is possibly going to understand that now?
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