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Red: They send you here for life... and that's exactly what they
take.
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Red: And that's how it came to pass that on the second-to-last day
of the job, the convict crew that tarred the plate factory roof in
the spring of '49 wound up sitting in a row at ten o'clock in the
morning drinking icy cold, Bohemia-style beer.... courtesy of the
hardest screw that ever walked a turn at Shawshank State Prison.?
Guard: Drink up while it's cold, Ladies!
Red: The collosal prick even managed to sound magnanimous.
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Red: You could argue he'd done it to curry favor with the guards.
Or, maybe make a few friends among us cons. Me, I think he did it
just to feel normal again, if only for a short while.
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Red: In 1966 Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank Prison. All they
found of him was a muddy set of prison clothes, a bar of soap, and
an old rock hammer damn near worn down to the nub. I remember
thinking it would take a man 600 years to tunnel through the wall
with it. Ol' Andy did it in less than twenty.
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Red: Get busy living... or get busy dying. That's goddamn right.
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