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What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Feigning fury, the speaker asks what punishment suits whoever invented anniversary celebrations, then decides that merely killing that person would be too mild. The exaggeration is the joke: a grumpy, hyperbolic complaint about the obligation to mark yearly milestones.
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