A small blue jacket hangs beside an open wooden doorway, stacked paper cups and an orange.

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Last Chance To See · 1990

Douglas Adams

Here the man in blue crimplene accosted us once more but we patiently explained to him that he could fuck off.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The narrator describes another approach from the man in blue crimplene, followed by an emphatic profane dismissal. Calling that dismissal a patient explanation supplies the comic mismatch. The manners suggested by the narration sit very neatly against the rudeness of what was actually said.

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