Oh. Okay. That clearly hadn't been the right thing to say, there.

"You know," he ventured, "I think you maybe don't... get the difference between how shit worked in the slums and... stuff."

Stuff? Stuff.

"It was each person for themselves, and if you got somethin' that felt good one night, then, shit, that's better'n how you been livin' otherwise, yo. Hell, yeah, I would'a hit it again, and those girls did come down, lookin' to get it hit."