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We're on a mission from God.
— Elwood Blues • The Blues Brothers
Behind the line May contain spoilers.
Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker announces that they are acting on a divine assignment, presenting their errand as sacred and therefore beyond question. Said so plainly, the claim works as a deadpan justification for whatever they are doing, lending grand purpose and comic self-assurance to what may be ordinary business.
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