Original artwork, not a still
Face it, we don’t want anyone spelunking in our emotional cores. The echo would kill them.
— Ally McBeal ‧ 1997
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker insists, bluntly, that people prefer nobody probing their deepest feelings, because there is nothing there but hollow space. The joke is that an emotional interior might be so empty that any visitor would be undone by the echo. It's a wry, self-mocking evasion.
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