#parallel selves

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Asymmetry

candlemaker

Summary:

“Isn’t that weird?” Sam starts, raising an eyebrow at Bucky’s parallel self. “Sam-“ Bucky tries to interject, looking increasingly distressed – but it’s no use. “I mean, you third wheeling Steve and his wife out here in the middle of nowhere?” Sam finishes, and Bucky can only cover his face with his metal hand and wish the ground would swallow him whole, knowing what is coming as surely as he has ever known anything. “Pal,” the Other Bucky replies with a smirk, holding up his flesh hand to show off a thin silver band while the real Bucky stares resolutely at the ground, “I am his wife.” Or Of all the parallel universes they could have ended up in, Bucky can't think of a worse one than this - one that serves as a constant reminder of everything he's ever wanted, and everything he can't ever have.

[noevio]

If I could go from one passage to the next according to the narrator's thought associations and drifting memories, I could compose in something like the way an abstract painter might choose to place shapes and colours around a canvas. I could place a scene from two days ago right beside one from twenty years earlier, and ask the reader to ponder the relationship between the two. In such a way, I began to think, I might suggest the many layers of self-deception and denial that shrouded any person's view of their own self and of their past.

Nobel Lecture by Kazuo Ishiguro

[radioboy666]

Do our parallel selves in alternate parallel universes count as aliens?

[kidestom]

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