Rab McLaughlin (a.k.a. Second Prize or Secks for short) is a member of Rent Boy’s friend group. Like Begbie, Second Prize doesn’t use heroin, but he drinks so much that his own struggles with addiction are similar to a heroin user’s. After a brief but promising career in soccer, Second Prize got deeper and deeper into drinking. He often picks and loses fights in pubs, which is how he got the nickname Second Prize, and his nickname perhaps also signifies his lower standing within the friend group. Second Prize represents how heroin is not the only thing controlling the lives of the characters and how other addictions can be just as damaging.
Second Prize Quotes in Trainspotting
The Trainspotting quotes below are all either spoken by Second Prize or refer to Second Prize . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Blowing It
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He wis ma felly. Ye eywis think it’ll be different, thit ye kin change. Thum, thit ye kin make a difference.
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Second Prize Quotes in Trainspotting
The Trainspotting quotes below are all either spoken by Second Prize or refer to Second Prize . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Blowing It
Quotes
He wis ma felly. Ye eywis think it’ll be different, thit ye kin change. Thum, thit ye kin make a difference.
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