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Stop him? Me? It's more than my job's worth to stop him once he gets like this. He's out to rule the world, if he can get a government grant.
— Algernon ‧ Help!
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An editorial interpretation.
The speaker says stopping this man would put their job at risk, then jokes that his world-conquering ambitions depend on winning a government grant. Grand tyranny is paired with humdrum bureaucratic funding, and the deadpan exaggeration makes both the man and the speaker's reluctance sound absurd.
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