“You got so much more out of those Victrola records than I thought you did,” she said, talking about the records from which they’d tried to learn French. “Didn’t learn a damn thing from those records,” said Futz. “Any language is just noises people make with their mouths. Somebody makes a noise at me, and I make a noise back at him.” “Nobody understood the noises I made the whole time,” said Marie. “That’s because you weren’t really talking about anything,” said Futz.
