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English, 29.01.2021 18:10, CarlsonB

In lines 31-34, the speaker writes, "right then I wished that Danny / had been able to hit it with the ball / and changed its course- / maybe that would have saved it." Surely the speaker knows that his friend couldn't have hit the Hindenburg with a rubber ball and changed its course. So why does he say this? What does he mean?

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