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So much time and so little to do. Wait a minute. Strike that. Reverse it.
— Willy Wonka • Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Behind the line May contain spoilers.
Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
Wonka begins with an abundance of time and a shortage of tasks, then catches the reversal himself. The correction supplies the pressure that the opening briefly denied. His mistake becomes the joke, giving haste a verbal form without needing to list everything waiting to be done.
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