Want me to tell ya what'll happen? They'll take ya to the booby hatch. They'll tie ya up with a collar, like a dog.

“Want me to tell ya what’ll happen? They’ll take ya to the booby hatch. They’ll tie ya up with a collar, like a dog.”

– John Steinbeck

Of Mice and Men, Chapter 4. Crooks suggests to Lennie that if George doesn’t come back from town life would be catastrophic for Lennie. He would be confined to a psychiatric hospital, where he would suffer cruel and degrading treatments.

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