Subject: doppelganger
From: Scottie Bowman (rbowman@indigo.ie)
Date: Wed Nov 01 2000 - 14:54:26 GMT
No, D., no relation.
However.
When my mother in law embarked (with my encouragement)
on her second (& evidently very happy marriage) at the age
I myself have now reached (God help me), she arrived as
a new (if not exactly blushing) bride in Toronto - where she
was at once plunged into acute & distressing feelings of unreality.
On every side, through radio & television outlets, in public
placards, on the lips of all her new acquaintances, came whispering
once again, inescapably, the name of her favourite son in law.
Only not, this time, in his familiar drunken, aesthetic, sociopathic
guise - but transfigured now as the McCavity of Sport. It was only
with great difficulty that her new groom persuaded her to stay.
I'm amazed he's still at it. And how I envy that: 'rigorous &
enigmatic.'
It's the exact self-image that lurks hopelessly inside every gabby old
dotard.
Scottie B.
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