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The Salmon of Doubt · 2002
The hotel shop only had two decent books, and I’d written both of them.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The complaint about a hotel's book selection turns into a boast: the only two decent books, in the speaker's judgment, are his own. Its humour comes from presenting that sweeping self-praise as an unfortunate limitation of the shop.
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