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Life, the Universe and Everything • 1982
My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre, he muttered to himself, "and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes."
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What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker mutters that a doctor has diagnosed a malformed public-duty gland and a natural shortage of moral fibre, and concludes they are therefore excused from saving universes. It is a comic pseudo-medical excuse, dressing reluctance to be heroic as an unavoidable physical condition.
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