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On second thought Camelot's a silly place.
— Arthur · Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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An editorial interpretation.
The phrase “on second thought” introduces a quick reversal, and the judgment that follows is bluntly ordinary. Camelot is dismissed as silly, with no elaborate explanation. That casual verdict gives the line its comic economy, shrinking a grand-sounding place to something hardly worth taking seriously.
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