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- From: cliftonr@netcom.com (Pope Clifton)
- Subject: Doppelganger (Was: My Good Deed)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.031517.22506@netcom.com>
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- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 03:15:17 GMT
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- John R. Schutz (john@csrnxt1.ae.utexas.edu) wrote:
- : cliftonr@netcom.com (Pope Clifton) writes:
- :
- : >4) My doppelganger did it; naturally he would have the same handwriting
- :
- : This is the second, and last, time I wish to hear or see the word
- : doppelganger.
-
- Doppelganger! Let that be a warning to you. Moreover, "doppelganger"
- sounds much more literary than "evil twin."
-
- That said, here is another little story to explain my reference, without
- further use of the offending word.
-
- Years ago, when I was going to the U. of Chicago, occasionally some of
- my friends would tell me, "Oh, I saw you last night at such-and-such."
- When I protested that I was home studying (for instance) on the evening
- in question, they would insist that they had seen me from a distance on
- campus. When pressed, they would sometimes concede that perhaps it was
- just someone who looked identical to me.
-
- The activities I was "seen" in were invariably those I would have
- considered interesting or appropriate: taking in the Doc Films showing
- of "Reefer Madness" and "Bambi vs. Godzilla"; visibly stoned or giggly
- at some official campus activity; appearing at a political rally; or the
- like. My physical double apparently had tastes very similar to mine.
-
- I began to seriously worry that I was suffering from fugue states or
- blackouts, one day when I was walking down 57th St.* past O'Gara's and
- Staver's. A stunningly beautiful young woman walked past me, gave me a
- big smile, said "Hello, Clifton", and walked on. I was certain I had
- never met her. Since I was at that time both lonely and sexually
- frustrated, in no "relationship", meeting her was not the kind of thing
- which I would have readily forgotten. I never ran into her again.
-
- I brooded about this for years. As you can tell, I still drag it out
- and brood about it occasionally.
-
- None of this was ever explained.
-
- -- Clifton
-
- * It's been years. If the street with O'Gara's and the Medici was/is
- another street than 57th, I'm sure some pedant can correct me.
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