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Oh no! Not today, not to Gil! I could feel that sale. I was in the zone!
— Gil · The Simpsons
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
A seller laments a lost deal with wounded self-pity. The speaker insists they could feel the sale coming and were working at peak form, so losing it feels like a personal injustice. The comedy lies in the grand sense of destiny attached to an ordinary transaction.
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