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This opera is as lousy as it is brilliant!
— Robot Devil ‧ Futurama
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker judges an opera to be as terrible as it is brilliant. The two verdicts sit side by side with no attempt to reconcile them, suggesting a work whose excess and flaws are inseparable from its dazzling ambition, and the speaker seems to relish both.
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