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Demons after money. Whatever happened to the still-beating heart of a virgin? No one has any standards anymore.
— Giles • Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker wryly laments that demons now chase money, missing the old grisly tradition of ritual sacrifice, the still-beating heart of a virgin. The complaint treats monstrous ritual as a standard that has slipped, so ordinary greed reads as a disappointing lack of ambition.
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