mrghd
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(source: Iceberg Slim – Pimp, The story of my life)
Section of the novel that contains the expression:
“In a voice I could scarcely hear through her parched lips, she whispered: Forgive me Son, forgive me. Mama didn't know. I'm sorry. I stood there watching her last tears rolling down her dead cheeks from the blank eyes. I crushed her to me. I tried to get my final plea past death's grim shield: Oh Mama, nothing has been your fault, believe me, nothing. If you are foolish enough to think so, then I forgive you. I staggered blindly from the hospital. I went to the parking lot. I fell across the car hood and cried my heart out. I stopped crying. I thought Mama had really gotten in the last word this time.”
Background:
After Slim decided to finish with criminal life he travels to his mother and spends some months with her. The old lady is seriously ill. Actually those were her last months and Slim finally has to see how his mother dies. He becomes shocked by this.
What I cannot Interpret is the last sentence of the quotation:
‘I thought Mama had really gotten in the last word this time.’
?
Section of the novel that contains the expression:
“In a voice I could scarcely hear through her parched lips, she whispered: Forgive me Son, forgive me. Mama didn't know. I'm sorry. I stood there watching her last tears rolling down her dead cheeks from the blank eyes. I crushed her to me. I tried to get my final plea past death's grim shield: Oh Mama, nothing has been your fault, believe me, nothing. If you are foolish enough to think so, then I forgive you. I staggered blindly from the hospital. I went to the parking lot. I fell across the car hood and cried my heart out. I stopped crying. I thought Mama had really gotten in the last word this time.”
Background:
After Slim decided to finish with criminal life he travels to his mother and spends some months with her. The old lady is seriously ill. Actually those were her last months and Slim finally has to see how his mother dies. He becomes shocked by this.
What I cannot Interpret is the last sentence of the quotation:
‘I thought Mama had really gotten in the last word this time.’
?