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Man it's hot. It's like Africa hot. Tarzan couldn't take this kind of hot.
— Eugene · Biloxi Blues
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Our reading
An editorial 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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