(urth) Someday they'll want us.

[Adam Thornton]

On 06/24/2010 08:29 AM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
>
>     *From:* Adam Thornton <mailto:adam at io.com>
>     On 06/24/2010 06:12 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?
>>
>     Did you read the novella standalone, as it appears in _Best Of_,
>     or as part of the collection of three novellas published as _Fifth
>     Head_?
>
> Does it matter?
> I read it as part of the collection, but I don't see what difference 
> it could make.  All the action in the other two linked novellas (as 
> well as all the other action in _Fifth Head_ ) takes place before this 
> time.
>

If you've read the other parts, then you know that cloning isn't the 
only way to get confusion between the plural and singular.

Adam
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