On Duplicity
Dec. 23rd, 2007 04:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Goodness. There are an awful lot of mes out there. And not just, you know. Future mes, being impertinent and horribly disrespectful to their elders, or past mes that likely think I'M being impertinent and horribly disrespectful to them, but ...
Other MEs. As in, you know. Me. This face, this body. Alternate universes, alternate time-streams.
How utterly fascinating. A part of me would really like to sit down with them for a cuppa, ask them what it's like, being me, where they're from. What stays the same, what changes. Who they travel with. What they face.
But paradox is never a pleasant thing to bear for long, and not simply in the way of physicality. I also know, somehow, that if I were to talk to them, or indulge myself in finding out what they do, what they know, who they are ..... they are not me. And yet they are me. So all I would really end out doing would be sitting 'round, questioning myself. In senses both metaphorical and literal.
No, no.
Best not to wonder what I'm up to.
... also, you know, are they my elders? I'm never sure if Elders is the right term. Because really, I'M older, but they came before...
Oh, enough, my head's spinning!
Other MEs. As in, you know. Me. This face, this body. Alternate universes, alternate time-streams.
How utterly fascinating. A part of me would really like to sit down with them for a cuppa, ask them what it's like, being me, where they're from. What stays the same, what changes. Who they travel with. What they face.
But paradox is never a pleasant thing to bear for long, and not simply in the way of physicality. I also know, somehow, that if I were to talk to them, or indulge myself in finding out what they do, what they know, who they are ..... they are not me. And yet they are me. So all I would really end out doing would be sitting 'round, questioning myself. In senses both metaphorical and literal.
No, no.
Best not to wonder what I'm up to.
... also, you know, are they my elders? I'm never sure if Elders is the right term. Because really, I'M older, but they came before...
Oh, enough, my head's spinning!