When he looked back on his early years, he saw himself to have been a Boy of Ones.  He had one notebook, one pen and pencil, one eraser, one table, one chair, one shelf, one lamp, one small bed, and one little shag rug to stand on.  All he had wanted then for his future was one woman: by pairing up, they would double their possessions, and, in this way, have more, and have also two minds, two intelligences, two spirits, two souls.