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[[A figure with a hat is talking to another figure.]]
Hat: ... No, but see, it's a movie
about
movies.
Figure: Sounds like masturbatory navel-gazing.
Hat: No, it's about blurring the line between metaphor and reality.
Hat: You just don't know much about art.
Figure: I know
all
about blurring the line between metaphor and reality. I'm the goddamn
Michael Jordan
of blurring the line between metaphor and reality.
[[The figure walks away.]]
Hat: ... huh?
[[A basketball flies into the panel and knocks the figure's hat off.]]
{{Title text: People into masturbatory navel-gazing have a lot to learn about masturbation.}}
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