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Cassandra, I know I don't have his looks, I know I don't have his car, and I know that sometimes when I eat I get this clicking sound in the back of my jaw...
— Wayne ‧ Wayne's World
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker compares himself unfavourably with another man, then adds an oddly specific complaint about his own clicking jaw. The list moves from looks and a car to an awkward detail about eating. That change of scale gives the self-deprecating admission its comic force.
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