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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
— Orson Welles
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
A joke dressed as medical restraint. The doctor's rule against intimate dinners for four sounds sensible until the exception: fine if three other people are there. So the dinner for four is really one person eating alone, and the intimacy is just cover.
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