A thin stem with blue paper flowers and red thorns rises from a terracotta pot beside hovering tweezers.

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Donkey

Blue flower, red thorns, blue flower, red thorns - this would be so much easier if I wasn't color blind!

— Shrek ‧ 2001

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker repeats the distinguishing colours of a flower and its thorns, then admits being colour blind. The difficulty is built into the instructions: the very feature needed for recognition is hard to use. The repeated description gives way to an exasperated explanation of the problem.

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