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Mostly Harmless · 1992
It wasn’t his job to worry about that, though. It was his job to do his job, which was to do his job. If that led to a certain narrowness of vision and circularity of thought then it wasn’t his job to worry about such things.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The narration satirizes someone who hides inside a job description: his task is doing his task, and any resulting tunnel vision or looping logic is, conveniently, not his concern. The joke is that the reasoning chases its own tail while claiming no responsibility.
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