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Mrs. Dai Bread Two
Nogood Boyo is a lazy, mischievous fisherman. He dreams of “nothing” and has dirty thoughts about Mrs. Dai Bread Two in a wet corset. He claims that he “want[s] to be good Boyo, but no one’ll let [him].” At the end of the novel, he fools around with Lily Smalls in the wash-house.
Nogood Boyo Quotes in Under Milk Wood
The Under Milk Wood quotes below are all either spoken by Nogood Boyo or refer to Nogood Boyo. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Under Milk Wood
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SECOND VOICE. Fishermen grumble to their nets. Nogood Boyo goes out in the dinghy Zanzibar, ships the oars, drifts slowly in the dab–filled bay, and, lying on his back in the unbaled water, among crabs’ legs and tangled lines, looks up at the spring sky.
NOGOOD BOYO. (Softly, lazily) I don’t know who’s up there and I don’t care.
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I want to be a good Boyo, but nobody’ll let me.
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Nogood Boyo Quotes in Under Milk Wood
The Under Milk Wood quotes below are all either spoken by Nogood Boyo or refer to Nogood Boyo. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Under Milk Wood
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SECOND VOICE. Fishermen grumble to their nets. Nogood Boyo goes out in the dinghy Zanzibar, ships the oars, drifts slowly in the dab–filled bay, and, lying on his back in the unbaled water, among crabs’ legs and tangled lines, looks up at the spring sky.
NOGOOD BOYO. (Softly, lazily) I don’t know who’s up there and I don’t care.
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I want to be a good Boyo, but nobody’ll let me.
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