A brass telephone handset with a looped coiled cord resting on a yellow cushion against grey.

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Emo Philips

People come up to me and say, "Emo, do people really come up to you?"

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The question folds back on the very encounter in which it is asked. Someone approaches the speaker to ask whether people approach him, supplying an answer through their own action. The repetition turns an ordinary conversational opening into a small logical joke.

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