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I can't put my arms down!!
— Randy ‧ A Christmas Story
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
An exclamation of frustrated helplessness: the speaker's arms are stuck up and won't lower, however hard they try. The doubled exclamation marks give it a panicky, comic urgency, the complaint of someone trapped in an awkward position that has become both absurd and impossible to fix.
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