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"Now, that I didn't know," said Reg. "Your past has murkier things in it than I dreamed possible. A quality, I might add, that it shares with this soup."
— Douglas Adams • Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
A dry, absurdist comparison between a mysterious past and a bowl of murky soup. The joke lands through deadpan understatement, treating something ominous as merely unappetizing. It's a playful jab built entirely on that single mismatched comparison.
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