"All the time he’d spent, supposedly “preparing himself” to be a Copy, his greatest source of resolve had been to focus on the outlook for the man who’d remain flesh-and-blood. He’d told himself that he was rehearsing “making do with vicarious freedom” – and no doubt he had been genuinely struggling to do just that … but he’d also been taking secret comfort in the knowledge that he would “remain” on the outside – that his future, then, still included a version with absolutely nothing to fear. And as long as he’d clung to that happy truth, he’d never really swallowed the fate of the Copy at all. People reacted badly to waking up as Copies."
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