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What happened is that um, I kinda got this arcane glimpse of the universe and the best thing I can say about that is... I don't know.
— Reality Bites ‧ 1994
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Troy tries to describe something enormous and mystical that happened to him. He reaches for grand language, an arcane glimpse of the universe, then immediately deflates it by admitting he has no idea what it meant. The gap between the claim and the shrug is the whole joke.
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