--VETE AL DIABLO-- he was saying to the entity following him. She was flexing her fingers like fangs or peace signs with the thumbs curled in. In other words she was making scare quotes around an obscure, or obscene, word. --Do you even know how to read?-- she was saying to him. He tried to sound it out: "G...G...G...GUIL...T...TY." So that when he pronounced the word, he was so pronounced: guilty. And he was found like that in the street facedown in a stinking puddle of his own fluids. When he was told "we're going to call an ambulance" he got up and walked away. It happened almost every night; he had learned about 150, or one hundred filthy, words by then.