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On 06/24/2010 08:29 AM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
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<font face="Arial" size="2">On 06/24/2010 06:12 AM, Gerry Quinn
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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?</font></font></p>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">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_?</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Does it matter?</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">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.</font></div>
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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.<br>
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Adam<br>
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