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In the heat of battle, my father wove a tapestry of obsenity that as far as we know, is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan.
— Ralphie · A Christmas Story

Behind the line May contain spoilers.
Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
A comic exaggeration turns a father's angry outburst into a mythic, almost cosmic event, imagining the profanity as a physical object still lingering over a specific place. The humor comes from treating a fleeting tantrum as monumental and eternal.
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