Vance Fowler Quotes in The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968)
Vance Fowler Quotes:
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Jacob Schpitendavel: Louis Minsky, if you do not now go at once to prevent thy son from bringing my daughter to such ignominy, I shall, as Agnon
[?]
Jacob Schpitendavel: did, raise the finger of righteousness
[raises index finger]
Jacob Schpitendavel: to call down the wrath of heaven.
Vance Fowler: My father, an Episcopal vestryman, used this
[raises pinkie finger]
Vance Fowler: as the finger of righteousness.
Louis Minsky: Bah! And again, Bah! There is no finger of righteousness. This
[raises pinkie and turns it in his ear]
Louis Minsky: is the finger of cleanliness. This
[raises ring finger]
Louis Minsky: is the finger of marital bliss
[points to wedding band]
Louis Minsky: . This
[raises index]
Louis Minsky: is the finger of vengeance. This
[levels middle finger toward Fowler, palm downward]
Louis Minsky: is the finger of meddling in other people's lives
[pokes Fowler in chest with middle finger]
Louis Minsky: . And this
[sticks out thumb]
Louis Minsky: is the finger of transportation. It will get us a taxi to the theater. You speak with the fist of authority, gentlemen, but you do not know your fingers.
-- Vance Fowler -
Jacob Schpitendavel: [raising his index finger] Louis Minsky, if you do not now go at once to prevent thy son from bringing my daughter to such ignominy, I shall, as Agnon did, raise the finger of righteousness to call down the wrath of the heavens.
Vance Fowler: [raising his pinky finger] My father, an Episcopal vestryman, used this as the finger of righteousness.
Louis Minsky: [to Fowler, then to Schpitendavel] Bah! And again, Bah! There is no finger of righteousness.
Louis Minsky: [raising his pinky finger and turning it in his ear] This is the finger of cleanliness.
Louis Minsky: [pointing to his ring finger] This is the finger of marital bliss.
Louis Minsky: [raising his index finger] This is the finger of vengeance.
Louis Minsky: [leveling his middle finger, poking Fowler in the chest] This is the finger of meddling in other people's lives.
Louis Minsky: [sticking up his thumb, then forming his hand into a fist] And this is the finger of transportation. It will get us a taxi to the theater. You speak with the fist of authority, gentlemen, but you do not know your fingers.
-- Vance Fowler
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