A tilted glass jar containing a golden question mark, resting on plum velvet.

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Brad Stand

How am I not myself?

— I Heart Huckabees  ·  2004

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

The question resists a distinction between the person someone is and the person they are supposed to be. Its wording makes that distinction sound paradoxical: even an allegedly false version still belongs to the same self. The short challenge asks what being oneself could actually exclude.

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