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The Blind Assassin • 2000
Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The passage advises against imagining a woman while she is absent, then undercuts that advice by proposing to invent her once she arrives. The joke exposes a habit of projection: even her actual presence may become material for a story about her rather than a chance to know her.
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