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What does "Nor do" mean in this context?
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What does "Nor do" mean in this context?
"`Alive and kicking. She lives with my sister and her husband and their two small children. Very much alive. Nor do - rest assured that I do not delude myself that the low percentage of rebuffs is due to any overwhelming allure on my part. This is not how an activity like this works."
What does "Nor do" mean in this context?
"`Alive and kicking. She lives with my sister and her husband and their two small children. Very much alive. Nor do - rest assured that I do not delude myself that the low percentage of rebuffs is due to any overwhelming allure on my part. This is not how an activity like this works."
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The only way I can make sense of this is to insert an "I" after "Nor do" and a dash after "rest assured that I do not". So the sentence could read "Nor do I - rest assured that I do not - delude myself that the low percentage of rebuffs is due to any overwhelming allure on my part".
It's a quote from David Foster Wallace's short story "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men". This use of the em dash seems to be some kind of literary effect that eludes me. Here are some other examples:
- The only real [finger flexion] talent I profess is the ability to gauge them, screen them, so that by the — such that a preponderance of the third dates are, if you will, [finger flexion] hens rather than [finger flexion] cocks.
- That is not what this is about. I know what this is about. The — and force is not what this is about.
- What would you do with a million dollars? meant to elicit information about their personality in possible deliberation as to a fourth date. And so on and so forth. Or rather whether it is in fact a serious proposal. Even as — they are looking at you because they are trying to read you.
- The only real [finger flexion] talent I profess is the ability to gauge them, screen them, so that by the — such that a preponderance of the third dates are, if you will, [finger flexion] hens rather than [finger flexion] cocks.
- That is not what this is about. I know what this is about. The — and force is not what this is about.
- What would you do with a million dollars? meant to elicit information about their personality in possible deliberation as to a fourth date. And so on and so forth. Or rather whether it is in fact a serious proposal. Even as — they are looking at you because they are trying to read you.
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