Pretty hard to square with other points of the story, not to mention Heinlein’s sequence of working titles. He misses everyone that he used to believe were distinct from him, since he feels no sense of companionship from people that are probably just himself. The headache powder lets him sleep, but when he’s asleep he’s not conscious, and thus everyone else “goes away” (like the world “goes away” when you close your eyes). Yes, at the end of the story, the unmarried mother has begun to believe that he’s the only person who really exists - because many people he’s encountered in his life turned out to be him after all. What does he miss, if no one else exists? The illusion that other people are real? I don’t understand the whole rationale, I guess… his existence stems from an impossible time-loop paradox, so surely he should be more confused about his own origin, rather than the rest of the world’s. Here he is saying the reader does not exist? Just himself? There isn’t anybody but me – Jane – alone in the dark. What is your interpretation of this? Does the main character believe he is the only real person who exists in the universe? Why would a headache powder make everyone go away? He then further confuses things by saying
I know where I came from – but where did all you zombies come from? I felt a headache coming on, but a headache powder is one thing I do not take. I understand the entire timeline of events, but I don’t understand the protagonist’s lamentations at the very end, where he says:
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