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I don't get that close to the glass until I'm on the floor.

— Bob · Lost in Translation

Painterly clear drinking glass lying on its side beside a crumpled teal cloth on a dark floor.
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The speaker makes approaching the glass depend on already being on the floor. That oddly specific condition gives the line a dry comic shape. The isolated words leave the situation unclear, but their humor comes from linking closeness to an unexpectedly low physical position.

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