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We’re gonna explode? I don’t wanna explode!

— Jayne • Serenity

Three miniature houses stand on a low blue mound beside a small black spherical bomb with a curved fuse.
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An editorial interpretation.

Jayne first repeats the possibility of an explosion as a question, then states the most immediate objection to it. The second sentence adds no elaborate reasoning because the danger hardly needs explaining. The repetition makes self-preservation the whole and plainly expressed response.

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