It’s me, it’s really me!

„... „Ich bin es, ich bin es wirklich!“. Contrary to the implication, it is not really the ‘You’ that is being addressed here, in fact it is the first person - redoubled and concluded with an exclamation mark - that is emphatically reiterated in the sentence. It would seem as if the person were intangible yet describable, „really“ anchored in a not more closely defined ‘reality’...“

Susanne Neuburger, in „I and You“, catalog Georgia Creimer „ Ich bin es, Ich bin es wirklich!“, 1999

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