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Coleman said, "I never again want to hear that self-admiring voice of
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yours or see your smug, fucking, lily-white face," and the
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question becomes why-- and we see Nelson ask it the next
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page--why "white," why does "lily-white" become the
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insult that he hurls at Nelson?
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And formally, even though there's a little bit of an interlude here
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about Athena College and Coleman's rage,
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this is the moment when we launch into the tale of Coleman's childhood,
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and we learn for the first time what kind of family he comes from,
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and what the history of his passing has been, how he made that decision
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to abandon his family of birth.
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So, speech can be revealing, but only in those moments when it is