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Wait a minute! Wait. Wait. I'm having a thought. Oh yes. Oh yes. I'm going to have a thought. It's coming. It's coming. ...It's gone.
— Big Boy Caprice ‧ Dick Tracy
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An editorial interpretation.
A comic bit of stalled thinking: the speaker announces a thought is about to arrive, builds up excitement, then loses it. The humor is the buildup followed by nothing, with the speaker as the unwitting butt of the joke.
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