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My grandfather’s mind worked like mine—bing, bing, bing.
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The speaker compares their grandfather’s thinking to their own, describing both minds as producing ideas quickly and suddenly. “Bing, bing, bing” sounds like a series of instant mental sparks, so the line expresses a lively resemblance between the two ways of thinking.
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