"What worries me, Billy," she said — I could hear the change in her voice — "is how your mother is going to take this." " - Meaning and context.">
Ch. 29
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"What worries me, Billy," she said — I could hear the change in her voice — "is how your mother is going to take this."

— Ken Kesey

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets ""What worries me, Billy," she said — I could hear the change in her voice — "is how your mother is going to take this." " in the context of "Ch. 29" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Ken Kesey

About Ken Kesey

Kenneth Elton Kesey (17 September 1935 – 10 November 2001) was an American writer, most famous for his novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and as a cultural icon whom some consider a link between the "beat generation" of the 1950s and the "hippies" of the 1960s as a founding member of the Merry Pranksters.