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That’s funny, that plane’s dustin’ crops where there ain’t no crops.
— Man at Prairie Crossing · North by Northwest
Behind the line May contain spoilers.
Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
An observer points out something odd: a plane is spraying dust over land where nothing grows. The folksy remark, with its dropped letters, sounds casually puzzled, yet the mismatch between the activity and the empty ground hints that something does not add up.
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