Comparisons.

My daughter says Wallander reminds her of me. Mel says Dr House reminds her of me. If I took these things on board I could get quite confused, couldn’t I, although I do recognise a couple of points of similarity between them. They’re both diligently searching for some sort of truth and they both have intense personalities. Whether or not either is like me is for others to say, since I don’t know who I am.

Then again, does anybody? The question ‘who am I?’ can be simple enough to answer at shallower levels, but it’s one of those questions which, if you pursue it far enough, disappears into a black hole in which pragmatic reasoning gets a bit lost.