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Brighton Beach Memoirs · 1984
You don’t get too far talking to Laurie. Sometimes I think the flutter in her heart is really in her brain.
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What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker complains that conversation with Laurie achieves little, then relocates a flutter from her heart to her brain. The comparison turns a bodily description into a mocking judgement about her thinking. Its sharpness lies in treating mental distraction as the real source of the trouble.
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