from the ANSWER
Funny. I don't see me here in the
Rocket lounge. Real launch tanks of marstini don't lie.
What do you say when you get a call
from yourself? The holo guy looked just like me. The ID said: 'Paul
Dvorak unknown loc'. From the future? If this is me from the future
why holocall? What are the charges like on a call I haven't made to
myself yet? Since suit is paying I accept my crisper self image into
the contact cone.
“Paul.”
“Paul.” Do I call myself 'Paul'
like this thinking?
”You're me”
“I'm you?”
“From the future?”
“No.” “The past then?” “No.”
“So...I've been cloned again?” Darn DNA scattered all over the
place!
“Just shut up and listen to what I've
got to say...”
“Who the hell are you? If you are me
how come I don't know what I'm about to tell me?” Suit says the
call comes from my sleeve holo company lami. How can I holo call
myself? Does this cost me double? Looped up somehow? I would think me
from the future would remember how drunk I am right now.
“Listen! There is no time! No time
right now! “
“What time is it there? Here?” Suit
says 14:25. Is this a call to someone else that's time lagged? Have I
got a lagged line now? Pings me fat bandwidth...
“No! It's now everywhere! You are me
now. I'm you and you're me. Now listen!”
“Why should I listen to me? I'm not a
good judge of my character. I wouldn't believe anything I'd tell
myself. I'm often right about being wrong. Like now cause I'm usually
always right. If I'm me and so are you then you would know that I
would never take any advice that I would give to anybody much less
myself.”
“It's too late? Listen! Shut up and
listen! It's too late now!”
“That's what I'm trying to tell me?
That it's too late? Too late for what? Why didn't I tell me earlier?”
But I couldn't tell me anything more. I
was gone with a sparkling 'blip'. Alone again in a bar full of drunks
who weren't paying any attention.
“Paul.” Suit got something to say.
“Yes Carla?”
“What was that about?”
...so the smartest, richest pants in
the whole solsys is asking me now for answers...
