He begins to understand that, much like conjoined twins sharing a single body, he is driven by a fused antithetical pair of brains. In a marvelous self-swallowing paradox the author/character Paul Lowry, a montage artist of autobiographical works, discovers that he himself is a composite. He creates the Brothers Paul, his own biographical protagonists which he believes, with some small amount of tinkering, could have the potential to mirror the human mind.