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I am going to work. It is great working at the library. If any of y’all want, I can get you free books!
— Vanessa Hargraves · Designing Women
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker celebrates working at a library and offers free books as though this were a special benefit they could arrange. The joke lies in presenting an ordinary feature of borrowing from a library as a personal favour, mixing enthusiasm with misplaced pride.
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