A wilted palm frond leans over a cracked clay jug on dry earth beneath a bright orange sun.

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Eugene

Man it's hot. It's like Africa hot. Tarzan couldn't take this kind of hot.

— Biloxi Blues  ·  1988

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The complaint escalates from ordinary heat to a comparison with Africa and then to heat even Tarzan supposedly could not bear. The exaggeration conveys discomfort through a familiar fictional figure. Its broad geographical shorthand belongs to the speaker's comic language, not a precise description of a continent.

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