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I don't mind being one of the few; trouble is we keep getting fewer.
— Flight Officer David Campbell • The Longest Day
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker accepts belonging to a small group, but worries that its numbers are still falling. The distinction between being few and becoming fewer supplies the dry punchline. What sounds like comfortable minority status turns into concern about an increasingly diminished circle.
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