> Never let nobody talk you into shaking another man's
jolt.
>
So the meaning of "jolt" has been sorted out as meaning "a
jail sentence". But surely the key word in the sentence above
has to be "shaking". Yeah, we'd all shake if given a jolt of
electricity or a jail term, but the author has to have been
aware of other implications when he chose this word over
"taking". It's this suggestion of jail house sex and the
evocation of homophobia that takes the entire paragraph
beyond just being good snappy dialogue.
It points to what I think is the defining practical advice of
good noir fiction: the world not is as it seems.
Kerry Schooley
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