Two pairs of red and cream cherries with gold stems, surrounded by scattered gold coins.

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Leonard Zelig

I have an interesting case. I’m treating two sets of Siamese twins with split personalities. I’m getting paid by 8 people.

— Zelig  ·  1983

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What it means

Our interpretation.

A comic claim of a busy practice: two pairs of conjoined twins, each with divided personalities, add up to eight paying clients. The arithmetic is the joke: the speaker counts each personality as a separate customer, so one unusual case becomes an unusually profitable one.

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