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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy • 1979
If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker demands, with mock grandeur, that anything more important than their own ego be hunted down and shot immediately. The comic extremity satirises vanity by treating self-importance as absolute, leaving nothing permitted to outrank it.
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