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If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.
— Douglas Adams • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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An editorial interpretation.
The speaker demands, with mock grandeur, that anything more important than their own ego be hunted down and shot immediately. The comic extremity satirises vanity by treating self-importance as absolute, leaving nothing permitted to outrank it.
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