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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><font size="2">"Someday they'll
want us" is </font>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?</font></p>
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I am pretty certain that "the child" with Phaedra is Number 6.
Phaedra *works* at Cave Canem and we know the jobs available there.
"Us" is Mr. Million and all the clones before and after Number 5. As
"Dr. Marsch" has explained, "us" and "me" are equivalent in their
case.<br>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2">A little earlier comes the
sentence "I have written to disclose myself to myself, and I
am writing now because I will, I know, sometime read what I
am now qwriting and wonder". This can be read in two ways;
one in which "myself" and "I" may refer to a clone, and
another which suggests that in writing the narrator has
found a better means of self-examination.</font></p>
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I think it is the former. He knows that he will pass on this
position to another at one point. He must know on some analytical
level that Number 6 will murder him one day.<br>
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