One small red chair set apart from a cluster of grey chairs on a dark floor.

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You despise me, don't you?

— Casablanca • 1942

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker asks a question they seem to already suspect the answer to, wondering whether the listener holds them in contempt. The tag question mixes self-awareness with a plea to be contradicted, or perhaps a wary readiness to hear the worst. It reads as someone probing how they are seen.

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