- "We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?"

Question

- "We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?"

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Answer 1

"We need to be bothered once in a while. How long has it been since you were really bothered?"

In this shortened quote, the rhetorical question is used in the form of "How long has it been since you were really bothered?" The anaphora (repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses) is seen in the repetition of "We need" at the start of each sentence.