“Okay, stand outa the way. Sometimes when I go to exertin’ myself I use up all the air nearby and grown men faint from suffocation. Stand back. There’s liable to be crackin’ cement and flying steel. Get the women and kids someplace safe. Stand back….” “By golly, he might do it,” Cheswick mutters. “Sure, maybe he’ll talk it off the floor,” Fredrickson says. “More likely he’ll acquire a beautiful hernia,” Harding says. “Come now, McMurphy, quit acting like a fool; there’s no man can lift that thing.” “Stand back, sissies, you’re using my oxygen.” McMurphy shifts his feet a few times to get a
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