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Welcome to downtown Coolsville! Population: us.
— Hogarth Hughes · The Iron Giant
Behind the line May contain spoilers.
Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker invents a place called Coolsville and welcomes someone into it. Declaring its population to be us makes the group sound like a little world of its own. The playful announcement claims that space without explaining whether the tone is sincere or ironic.
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