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“Dear Diary: Today I was pompous and my sister was crazy. Today we were kidnapped by hill folk, never to be seen again. It was the best day ever.”
— Jayne · Firefly
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The diary-style account places insults, kidnapping and cheerful praise in the same sequence. Its final assessment is so far from the events it describes that the supposed enthusiasm becomes absurd. The ordinary form of a daily entry makes that contradiction feel even more pointed.
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