Words&Dirt

“One big idea behind finding your model was that when you did, you’d glimpse your future.  Now I don’t mean anyone really thought that if your model turned out to be, say, a guy working at a railway station, that’s what you’d end up doing too.  We all realised it wasn’t that simple.  Nevertheless, we all of us, to varying degrees, believed that when you saw the person you were copied from, you’d get some insight into who you were deep down, and maybe too, you’d see something of what your life held in store.”

––Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro, pg. 139-40