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You can’t trample infidels when you’re a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.
— Terry Pratchett ‧ Small Gods
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker imagines being a tortoise and admits the plain limits of that shape. Trampling anyone is impossible on such short, slow legs, so any threat collapses into something almost comic. All that's left as a gesture of displeasure is a slow, meaningful stare.
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