“Are we ourselves?

   “One of them is asking. One of them thinks this is a rhetorical question: there’s continuity of memory, and that makes a self. A self is whoever remembers being that self.

   “One of them corrects: Continuity of memory filtered through endocrine response.

   “One of them corrects: We all remember being that self, are we are not the same.” *

                                                                                            a triad

How nice he thought being only three twos a company threes a crowd he smiled appreciatively  shehes heshes couldnt resist smiled with him  Whaof my myriad they nodded  they ran circuits percolated collated were subtle ran roughshod sometimes meteoric others tumbled like tumbleweeds stumbled like bums

                                                                              a self is whoever remembers being that self . . . continuity of memory filtered through endocrine response . . . we are not the same

We are he looked across the room inside himself at the myriad he understood they helped maintainworked together with him for his bodys and psychological equilibrium equiltlibrium eustasis  tides

was dumb luck

was fortune

   spidereyed compoundedeyes faceted facile 

                                                    it took him a long timehis childhood to bring together the concerted concert consorts cons thick as thieves  inspiring  aspiring  rarely despairing

and because of them he thoughtindulged Why not rather than Why

are we ourselves

                     only if we know ourself

1430ish,  Thursday, 19  10. 23

1019,  Reggaefriday,  20  10. 23

*pg347  A Memory Called Empire  Arkady Martine

endocrine response  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK278995/

Uriah Heep  Look At Yourself  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMMrazRIdx4