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I've always wanted to make love to an angry welder. I've dreamed of nothing else since I was a small boy.
— Michael Brody • Jaws: The Revenge
Behind the line May contain spoilers.
Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker claims an unusually specific sexual wish and exaggerates its importance by describing it as a lifelong dream. The insistence on having wanted nothing else stretches the confession into comic excess. One reading hears teasing hyperbole in the extravagant precision of this supposed ambition.
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