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I demand to have some booze.
— Withnail · Withnail and I
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
Withnail turns a desire for a drink into a demand, as if wanting alcohol were enough to establish a claim on it. The wording leaves no room for a polite request. That insistence makes the size of his entitlement more striking than the thing he wants.
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