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We’ve been going about this all wrong! This Mr. Stay-Puft isn’t so bad. He’s a sailor, he’s in New York; we get this guy laid, we won’t have any trouble!
— Peter Venkman • Ghostbusters
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker proposes solving trouble through sex, reasoning from the claim that the person involved is a sailor in New York. The sudden declaration that everyone has approached things wrongly gives this crude solution an air of insight. Humour comes from its confident, drastically simplified reasoning.
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