An open book and pale quill sit beside small brass scales and an ink pot beneath a golden beam of light.

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Wanda

Let me correct you on a few things. Aristotle was not Belgian. The central message of Buddhism is not “Every Man for Himself”. And the London Underground is not a political movement. Those are all mistakes, Otto. I looked ’em up.

— A Fish Called Wanda ‧ 1988

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Our interpretation.

The speaker briskly corrects three absurd claims in turn: Aristotle's nationality, the message of Buddhism, and the nature of the London Underground. Calling them mistakes and adding that they checked gives the correction a crisp, mockingly superior edge, as if the listener's errors were laughably easy to fix.

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