_:vb6831544 . _:vb6831544 "1871, George MacDonald, \u201C[At the Back of the North Wind] Out in the Storm\u201D, in Harry Thurston Peck, Frank R[ichard] Stockton, Julian Hawthorne, editors, Masterpieces of the World\u2019s Literature, Ancient and Modern: The Great Authors of the World with Their Master Productions, volume XIV, New York, N.Y.: American Literary Society, published 1899, pages 7514\u20137515:"@en . _:vb6831545 . _:vb6831543 . _:vb6831544 "\u201CQuite easily. Here you are taking care of a poor little boy with one arm, and there you are sinking a ship with the other. It can\u2019t be like you.\u201D \u201CAh, but which is me? I can\u2019t be two mes, you know.\u201D \u201CNo. Nobody can be two mes.\u201D \u201CWell, which me is me?\u201D \u201CNow I must think. There looks to be two.\u201D \u201CYes. That\u2019s the very point\u2014You can\u2019t be knowing the thing you don\u2019t know, can you?\u201D \u201CNo.\u201D \u201CWhich me do you know?\u201D \u201CThe kindest, goodest, best me in the world,\u201D answered Diamond, clinging to North Wind. [\u2026] \u201CDo you know the other me as well?\u201D \u201CNo. I can\u2019t. I shouldn\u2019t like to.\u201D \u201CThere it is. You don\u2019t know the other me. You are sure of one of them?\u201D \u201CYes.\u201D \u201CAnd you are sure there can\u2019t be two mes?\u201D \u201CYes.\u201D \u201CThen the me you don\u2019t know must be the same as the me you do know\u2014else there would be two mes?\u201D \u201CYes.\u201D \u201CThen the other me you don\u2019t know must be as kind as the me you do know?\u201D"@en . _:vb6831545 "The question seems unanswerable, because if those same atoms were to be collected as they leave my body as waste in the normal process of metabolism, and in a year when my body contained all new atoms, those old atoms which were me a year ago were reformed into an exact replica of me down to the last thought and cell, would there be two mes?"@en . . _:vb6831543 "The self or personality of the speaker, especially their authentic self."@en . _:vb6831546 "1990, Bei Dao [pseudonym; Zhao Zhenkai], translated by Bonnie S. McDougall and Susette Ternent Cooke, Waves, New York, N.Y.: New Directions Publishing, \u2192ISBN, page 158:"@en . "1" . _:vb6831546 "\u201CIn these last few days I keep feeling that I\u2019m changing, changing into something I don\u2019t quite recognize myself.\u201D / \u201CYou\u2019ve become more like yourself.\u201D / \u201CCould there be two mes?\u201D / \u201CPerhaps more than two.\u201D / \u201CIt gets worse and worse. So which me do you actually love ?\u201D / \u201CAll of them.\u201D / \u201CYou\u2019re being slippery.\u201D Her lips curled slyly. \u201CIn fact you only love the me in your mind\u2019s eye, and that me doesn\u2019t exist, right?\u201D / \u201CNo, that\u2019s the combination of all the yous.\u201D / She laughed. \u201CIt\u2019s just as complicated as a mathematical calculation, if you end up with the three-headed, six-armed me, could you stand that?\u201D"@en . . _:vb6831545 "1948 January, Rog Phillips [pseudonym; Roger Phillip Graham], \u201CHate\u201D, in Amazing Stories, volume 22, number 1, Chicago, Ill.: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, page 69, column 2:"@en . _:vb6831546 .