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Saucers? You mean the kind from up there?
— Paula Trent · Plan 9 from Outer Space
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
Paula checks which meaning of saucers is intended by locating them somewhere above. The everyday object name becomes a way of referring to something less ordinary without naming it directly. Her follow-up question narrows the reference while leaving the phrase up there to carry much of the explanation.
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