Post by Salzmank on Aug 26, 2017 0:22:41 GMT
Feologild Oakes , MCDemuth , hi224 , mecano04 , theravenking , JHA Durant, wanton87, et al.
I knew most of the cases Feologild referenced, but I hadn't heard of the Kentucky meat shower (though apparently Fort referred to it in The Book of the Damned) or even poor Émilie Sagée. I'm interested in the latter case both because of my general interest in the doppelgänger phenomenon and because I recently read one of Helen McCloy's best novels, Through a Glass, Darkly ('50).
The McCloy novel is remarkably similar to the Sagée story; I believe (I don't have the book in front of me) that McCloy references the story, but the similarity is so unbelievably close. McCloy develops a rational solution to the doppelgänger problem,
I knew most of the cases Feologild referenced, but I hadn't heard of the Kentucky meat shower (though apparently Fort referred to it in The Book of the Damned) or even poor Émilie Sagée. I'm interested in the latter case both because of my general interest in the doppelgänger phenomenon and because I recently read one of Helen McCloy's best novels, Through a Glass, Darkly ('50).
The McCloy novel is remarkably similar to the Sagée story; I believe (I don't have the book in front of me) that McCloy references the story, but the similarity is so unbelievably close. McCloy develops a rational solution to the doppelgänger problem,
but we are left wondering,
à la Carr's The Burning Court,
if the rational solution is actually true.