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We’re not gonna die. We can’t die, Bendis. You know why? Because we are so very pretty. We are just too pretty for God to let us die.
— Mal · Firefly
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker offers wildly cheerful reassurance to Bendis: death is impossible because they are too good-looking. Vanity is recast as a survival strategy, with divine favour supposedly reserved for the attractive. The bravado is absurd and comic, a bold claim made when survival seems to be in doubt.
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