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Instead of us hanging around playing art critic till I get pinched by the Man, how’s about we move away from this eerie-ass piece of work and get on with our increasingly eerie-ass day, how’s that?
— Jayne • Firefly
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker wants to stop examining an unsettling piece of work and move on before being caught by authority. Calling the delay “playing art critic” mocks the activity. Repeating “eerie-ass” extends the complaint from the object itself to the increasingly strange day around it.
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