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what the hell's a jigawatt?!?

— Marty ‧ Back to the Future

Painterly damaged orange and grey control panel with loose wires and sparks against pale grey.
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A burst of baffled, exasperated disbelief: the speaker has just met an unfamiliar word for a unit of power and demands to know what it means. The stacked punctuation makes the confusion loud and comic, as though the term were absurd rather than merely new.

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