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It wasn't lies. It was just... bullshit.
— Elwood · The Blues Brothers
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
Elwood rejects one label for what he said and substitutes another that hardly sounds more respectable. The pause gives the distinction a moment of importance before the coarse replacement arrives. His defence depends on treating two kinds of unreliable speech as meaningfully different.
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