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Tom Baxter's come down off the screen and he's running around New Jersey! ...Nobody knows how it happened, but he's done it.
— Gil's Agent ‧ The Purple Rose of Cairo
Behind the line May contain spoilers.
Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
This is an announcement of something impossible: a character has apparently stepped out of the screen into the real world. The speaker sounds baffled, unable to explain how it happened even while confirming it did. Disbelief and plain fact collide in the same breathless report.
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