Act MDCCLXXXIX

What is a person? Well, etymology would tell us that a person comes from Latin roots meaning 'mask.' Sociology (thanks to Erving Goffman in The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life and William Shakespeare) can tell us, not that I necessarily agree, that this signifies that a person is an individual, not necessarily human who has to act differently and play different roles to the audience of all the people they will ever encounter. Every person will put on an act, no matter how slight, for different people.

The entire world is a stage and people are the actors. The Beatles tell us that Eleanor Rigby keeps her faces in a jar by the door, so that when she goes out other people will see her differently.