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e-flux • The Word Made Fresh: Mystical Encounter and the New Weird Divine - Journal #92
A standard trope in the genre is a nagging uncertainty about whether the double is real at all. Is this actually an identical stranger, or are they a long-lost twin?
Naomi Klein • Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
But it is not known whether the principle obscurely described in the specification was applicable in any way to the invisible agency employed in Psycho.The punch line was that the article was signed "John Algernon Clarke." So the author claimed he was mystified by his own creation and couldn't properly determine whether his own patent was
... See moreTeller Jim Steinmeyer • Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear
“I’ll need to see two forms of identification, Officer”—he broke off and squinted at the form—“Leffington? Erwin Leffington?” He looked up for the first time.
Scott Hawkins • The Library at Mount Char
Several theorists have commented on UFOs in relation to cultural stress and transformation. Carl Jung discussed “transformations of the collective psyche” on the very first page of the “Introductory” section of Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies (1958). Carl Raschke, a religious scholar at the University of Denver wrote an es
... See moreGeorge P. Hansen • The Trickster and the Paranormal
a doppelgänger, a supernatural copy of a living person whose manifestation usually meant imminent death for the original.
Warren Ellis • Gun Machine
OF COURSE, Meg’s wasn’t the only haunted house in the city that never rests. There was a house I once knew well, on Holland Avenue. If you could wrench off the front and peer in at the resulting dollhouse, you would see the stacked stories.