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Remove head from sphinctor and drive!

— Kat · 10 Things I Hate About You

Painterly teal and ochre car seats with a steering wheel on a muted teal surface.
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The speaker turns an impatient demand to drive into a crude rebuke. An impossible bodily instruction stands in for telling someone to stop behaving foolishly and attend to what they are doing. The force of the insult comes from that abrupt collision of vulgar exaggeration and practical command.

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