(urth) Someday they'll want us.

[Jeff Wilson]

On 6/24/2010 6:12 AM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
> "Someday they'll want us" is the last line of _The Fifth Head of
> Cerberus_, written three years after the narrator's release from prison.
> The subject, clearly, is Phaedria and her child. Who are the "us" of the
> example?
>
> I have sometimes heard the phrase used where "us" means the singular
> "me", but I do not think it fits the narrator's education and speech
> patterns.
>
> The narrator's known family at this time consists of only Mr. Million,
> and David, who lives in another city. Are we to infer that he has
> already created a 'Number 6' clone?

  He may mean all the clones to come, as he is inextricably on the same 
track as Maitre and his predecessors. He's also probably lying to 
himself, but at the same time leaving a written record for his posterity 
to read after they have done away with his generation or otherwise 
failed to learn from his example in his lifetime.

I wonder if this also an ironic commentary on the youth counter-culture 
of the time.

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