apropos of nothing …

Here’s a great line from a self-helpy book I’m reading (A Year by the Sea: Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman):

As if she knows what I’m thinking she says, “That’s the way they want us – predictable and appropriate. Trouble is, we end up being apropos of nothing.”

Thank you, Mom, for raising me to be neither predictable nor appropriate!!

4 Responses to “apropos of nothing …”

  1. So I’m a little confused – in the quote, who is the “they”, and who is the “we”?

  2. Joan says:

    They is “the man” or the establishment, baby.

    capiche?

    1940s slang, from It. capisci? “do you understand?” (also coppish, kabish, capeesh, etc.).

  3. “Excuse me – are you trying to say “capiche”? Because, if you are, don’t say it – it hurts my ears when you say it”. — Steve Martin in _My Blue Heaven_ :)

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