Original artwork, not a still
I don't mind being one of the few; trouble is we keep getting fewer.
— The Longest Day • 1962
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker accepts belonging to a small group, but worries that its numbers are still falling. The distinction between being few and becoming fewer supplies the dry punchline. What sounds like comfortable minority status turns into concern about an increasingly diminished circle.
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