“So I says to him, I says, “That’s what I’m talking about. That’s exactly what I just said, and I told you this not one minute ago.” So he says to me, he says, “What are you talking about?” He says, “What? What does that even mean? What is this conversation about? Why are we talking about this? What are we even saying anymore?” So I says to him, I says, “I’m talking exactly about what we’re talking about, how I was telling you about this a minute ago, and I was telling you that this, what we’re talking about, is what we’re talking about. I’m talking about us talking about what we’re talking about, and what we’re talking about is and has been talking about us talking about what we’re talking about.” Then his head blew up, so I paid for our cappuccinos and went to the Aster.”
— Christian Fredrickson, What We Talk About When We Talk About What We’re Talking About
