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I hope that after I die, people will say of me: “That guy sure owed me a lot of money.”
— Jack Handey • Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey
Behind the line May contain spoilers.
Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker imagines being remembered by people still waiting to be repaid. That twists a familiar wish for a lasting legacy into a joke about unpaid debts: the lasting impression would be the money others had lost, rather than some admired achievement.
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