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<P>"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?</P>
<P>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.</P>
<P>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?</P>
<P>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.</P>
<P>Anyway, I was wondering what people think.</P>
<P>- Gerry Quinn</P>
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