"Who what am I?

I am the sum total of everything

that went before me,

of all I have been seen done,

of everything done-to-me.

 I am everyone everything

whose being-in-the-world

affected was affected by mine.

I am anything that happens

after I've gone

which would not have happened

if I had not come.

Nor am I particularly exceptional

in this matter;

each "I", everyone,

contains a similar multitude.

I repeat for the last time:

to understand me,

you'll have to swallow a world."

- Salman Rushdie -

(art by John U. Abrahamson)