Dear Aaron, actually I was thinking of this term
nowadays but was not able to define it exactly. I will
search and think of it ...will be back...
pelin.
--- Aaron Smuts <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >
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> Subject: Re: Doppelganger
>
>
> i think you need to be a little [actually a lot]
> more precise in what
> you mean by
> the term "doppelganger" . . .
>
> Hi:
>
> Yes, I didn't define the term or list any examples,
> partly because I
> wanted to see what people would count as instances.
>
> This seems like an interesting definition:
>
> "Word of the Day for Sunday October 31, 1999:
> doppelganger \DOPP-ul-gang-er\, noun:
>
> A spiritual or ghostly double or counterpart; esp.,
> an apparitional
> double of a living person; a cowalker.
> To readers of science fiction, the idea of a single
> atom existing
> simultaneously in two states or places is
> reminiscent of the
> supernatural "doppelganger" -- a flesh-and-blood
> duplicate of one's self
> encountered while walking along a street.
> --"Physicists Put Atom in Two Places at Once," New
> York Times, May 28,
> 1996
>
> But my primary interest here is not the machinations
> of science itself
> but the fascinating life and times of its dark
> doppelganger, the mad
> scientist, in all his overreaching glory.
> --David J. Skal, Screams of Reason: Mad Science and
> Modern Culture
>
> Doppelganger is from the German: doppel, double +
> Ganger, goer."
>
>
http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/archive/1999/10/31.html
>
> I am mostly concerned with what would count as a
> doppelganger in the
> strict sense -- "a spiritual or ghostly double or
> counterpart; esp., an
> apparitional double of a living person" or "a
> flesh-and-blood duplicate
> of one's self" -- than I am in a purely symbolic
> manifestation of an
> aspect of a person represented through another
> character.
>
> Aaron
>
>
>
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