gift snippet for fragilecat

[lobelia321]

For fragilecat who asked for this:
Radek and Rodney would be sooo nice
for style, i don't really care... but maybe Radek first person :)

I don't really know you, Fragilecat, and the stylistic prompt is kind of vague but here goes. *g* Having now written the snippet, I found that it lent itself to some meta-musings on personhood. :-)





I am the first person of my universe.

I am Radek. I am. I am. I am the first person of my universe. I am the person who is first in my head. Já. Já jsem. Sum ego. And this is not only in grammatical sense.

Is strange to think that for others I am not I. For Rodney I am not I. For Rodney, I am nobody. I am third person stupid engineering guy.

For Rodney, he is the I. He is his own first person. First person in all universe. The eye of his I.

Nothing so aggravating as megalomanic boss. Who gets persons all mixed up. Because, guess what, Rodney? In my head, here, in here, it is me who is the first person and you, you are maybe fourth person, if that. Fifth.

Eighty-ninth.

And the more you put on that face, the lower down you slip. Ninety-first. Ninety-second person on list of people to be saved from sinking Titanic by me, myself.

If he yells once more at my calculations, I am going to contact the union about this.

Well. Will only take eighteen months to get back to earth. Will have to go through complaints procedure, Form F-17, problems with line manager, interpersonal problems of a communicative nature.

First person. Third person.

Second person: You. Ty. Thou. And that is deictic. That changes. That is not fixed. Unlike he, unlike she, unlike they. No I without a you. I am. But I am nobody without you.

You are nobody without me.

Just you remember that, you arrogant annoying man! (Not that one can actually say that, not to one's superior, not really. But think it, yes.)

Or? Perhaps?

There always is?

We. First person plural. We the team. We the people and we the men.

Good enough.

Comments

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Oh, and: Ewan!

[phineasjones.livejournal.com]

ewan!