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J Lin Posted 12 years ago
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What does the last part of this sentence mean?
I told myself it as okay to trust dad,trust the People in Charge, trust the Others not to incinerate the school buses full of children, *trust that trust itself hadn't gone the way of computers and microwavable popcorn and the Hollywood movie where the slimeballs from Planet Xercon are defeated in the final ten minutes.*
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I think that the closing images are meant to suggest that the speaker is afraid that "trust" itself is obsolete, that it has disappeared like many other old-fashioned things. ) Does this help?
- I think that the closing images are meant to suggest that the speaker is afraid that "trust" itself is obsolete, that it has disappeared like many other old-fashioned things.
- ) Does this help?
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I think that the closing images are meant to suggest that the speaker is afraid that "trust" itself is obsolete, that it has disappeared like many other old-fashioned things. (Although I personally would not say that computers are obsolete, nor microwavable popcorn.)
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