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Can I ask you a personal question"? Of all the rhetorical questions in the world, that is the one which irritates me most with its simultaneous gesture towards and denial of the trespass that is about to follow.

Kamila Shamsie
Denial, World, Gestures
Kamila Shamsie (2005). “Broken Verses”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Can I ask you a personal question? Of all the rhetorical questions in the world, that is the one which irritates me most with its simultaneous gesture towards and denial of the trespass that is about to follow.