Original artwork, not a still
This is a ...sort of...corpse...in an open, oaken, oblong coffin...with a silk lining....It's a dead body, Pats.
— Absolutely Fabulous · 1992
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The description circles around a corpse with pauses and elaborate details about its coffin, then lands on the plain phrase dead body. The change in vocabulary makes the ending bluntly comic. Neither the polished wood nor the silk lining alters what is being described.
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