"It´s nice to visit the city where the subconscious was invented."
He looked at me darkly. "Miss Dunn, the subconscious was not invented. It was discovered."
"Oh. Sorry. I hadn´t given it much thought. I´ve always thought we had our day-to-day personality and then we also have this big rat´s nest inside of us called our subconscious."
"What makes you think of it as a rat´s nest?"
"Well, if our subconscious was attractive, we wouldn´t have to bury it down deep inside ourselves. It´d be just another feature on our face, like our nose." I could see Herr Bayer thought I might be joking, but I wasn´t. "People talk about the subconscious like it´s the South Pole and it required vast amounts of technology and determination to finally reach the place. How do we know there aren´t five or six hidden layers of personality? Or sixty-two?"
"I think maybe four."
"What would you call them?"
"Miss Dunn, you already know that - your public self, your private self and your secret self."
"That´s only three."
"The fourth is the dark self - the one that drives the car; the one that has the map; the one that is greedy or trusting or filled with hate. It´s so strong it defies speaking."
Menues were given to us, and I snapped out of what felt like a trance. "How did we get here so quickly?"
"I think you were driving the car, Miss Dunn."

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