The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) / quote 81 of 254
A pseudonym is not a second self
The banal reality is that the maintenance of different identities does not go deep to the core of Magnanti’s soul, but was simply a necessary means of keeping up some barriers for reasons of confidentiality and privacy. Most obviously, there is nothing philosophically profound about the fact she didn’t use her real name for her sex work: