Quotation about “making a disgrace”
July 21, 2018 6:01 AM Subscribe
This is not about a famous quote, but a line in a book I read which popped into my head this week, and I hope someone else remembers it too.
What I recall: the narrator – whom I think is male – is describing a brief encounter with an older woman. As I recall, the woman is black and would have a Caribbean accent, because that's how I remember the line. The woman is protesting something somewhere, solo, and says to the narrator something like "I've been here making a disgrace since ten o'clock this morning!"
The phrase "making a disgrace" was what came back to me, as I was telling someone I felt like making a disgrace on Twitter about something, and realized I had no idea where the line had come from, except it was from a book.
The book is more likely to be British than American, 20th century, but beyond that I can't specify.
What I recall: the narrator – whom I think is male – is describing a brief encounter with an older woman. As I recall, the woman is black and would have a Caribbean accent, because that's how I remember the line. The woman is protesting something somewhere, solo, and says to the narrator something like "I've been here making a disgrace since ten o'clock this morning!"
The phrase "making a disgrace" was what came back to me, as I was telling someone I felt like making a disgrace on Twitter about something, and realized I had no idea where the line had come from, except it was from a book.
The book is more likely to be British than American, 20th century, but beyond that I can't specify.
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posted by Grandysaur at 10:06 PM on July 21, 2018