A small sphere of exposed brass gears wears a copper paper crown on a plum velvet cushion.

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Professor Foot

MIT wanted me, you know. Wanted me to rule the world for them.

— Help! ‧ 1965

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Our interpretation.

Foot is bragging in an over-the-top way: a famous technical university supposedly wanted the speaker, and not merely as a student but to run the world on its behalf. The humour is the puffed-up self-importance, hard to take entirely seriously.

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