A tilted glass jar containing a golden question mark, resting on plum velvet.

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Tom Baxter

You make love without fading out?

— The Purple Rose of Cairo • 1985

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker asks whether someone makes love without fading out. The question brings the phrase fading out into an intimate subject, while leaving precisely what that fading means unstated.

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