Multiplier Effect

Jude turned his words over a few times in her head. "Is this like a Shirley Maclaine-Dianetics thing?" she asked. "Past lives, reincarnations, like that?"

"Not at all," he told her. "More like a case of multiple personalities."

"Oh, that." As if he'd said warts, heartburn, athlete's foot.

"You don't understand," Urquhart objected. "I keep slipping out of myself. I keep turning into someone else."

"Don't you just hate when that happens."

Urquhart looked at her skeptically. "You don't seem to take this problem seriously. Young shithead."