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I think someone should just take this city and just...just flush it down the fuckin' toilet.
— Travis Bickle • Taxi Driver
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
Travis vents a boiling, self-righteous disgust at the city around him, wanting total erasure rather than reform. It's the voice of someone so consumed by contempt that destruction feels like the only cleansing option left.
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