What is 'speed-shit bushwah'?
Source: FOUR PAST MIDNIGHT by Stephen King
"I didn't have no formal art education and I knew that put me down on the count, so to speak,
but I knew that there were artists who made it without all that speed-shit bushwah."
I don't know what 'speed-shit bushwah' is.
And, does 'put me down on the count' mean 'the odds are againt me'?
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"put me down on the count" means your score, or in this case suitability for a job, is lowered.
Bushwah is a way of saying Bourgeois, which is the middle class but in this form is a negative way of talking about behavior of the middle class. IE it's all a load of Bull $h^t that this speaker doesn't take seriously.
While I'm not sure about the 'speed-shit' In this line, I guess it's just an exclamation to emphasize that the speaker doesn't think an arts education is very useful or serious.
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