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I forbid. I forbid you to go. I'm forbidding! Is that what you do when I'm forbidding?
— Larry Lipton • Manhattan Murder Mystery
Behind the line May contain spoilers.
Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
A comic spiral of authority coming apart. The speaker keeps forbidding, then starts naming the act itself, and finally asks whether the listener is complying. The repetition wears the word thin and shows the forbidding has little power.
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