Next thing he knew, he was on the payroll, noticing how every time he entered a room somebody was sure to remark, ostensibly to somebody else, "Gravy, a man could get killed out there!"
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I'm guessing "Gravy" was an exclamation around the time and not the name of every ostensible somebody else in the room. Aside from that Nobel Laureate brain sized realization, I'm at a loss for what this means. Does Lew mean every time he walked into a room at White City Investigations, somebody said that? Or does he mean everywhere he went now, people recognized him as an investigator and, for some odd reason, made this exclamation?
Is it possible the people around him are trying to paint Chicago as more dangerous than it is, the way Fox News propagandizes Portland and Chicago and Baltimore and—welcome to the club, I guess?—Minneapolis? So now that he's a part of White City Investigations, Nate Privett wants to make sure Lew absolutely believes what they're doing is making the city safe? "A man can get killed out there with all those anarchist slash labor unionists running around bombing everything!" is the sentiment Lew's supposed to hear, just like all of our terrible relatives constantly hearing those messages on Facebook.
That actually feels right. Lew is now experiencing what our friends and family in right-wing bubbles experience on Facebook constantly. People on every message board constantly saying, "Gravy, a man could get killed out there!"
"Gravy"
Gravy is the name of my cat:
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