Odd, though, all these dealings of mine with myself. First I’ve agreed a principle withmyself, now I

Odd, though, all these dealings of mine with myself. First I’ve agreed a principle withmyself, now I’m making out a case to myself, and debating my own feelings andintentions with myself. Who is this self, this phantom internal partner, with whom I’mentering into all these arrangements? (I ask myself.)
----Michael Frayn, Headlong