Solitudes & Multitudes It’s never quite enough to keep just one living thing in your home. Get a dog, a plant, a partner, a child. It simply won’t do to live alone. What will you do with yourself, gaze in the mirror every so often and speak as if there were two of you? As if you could split your mind in half and carry on like that? As if you could imagine a second self somewhere inside you, someone in the same body who might want to be invited to this meeting?