I don't recall ever being visually mistaken for anybody.... but people at my work keep mixing me up with another guy who works there; don't know how, cos I'm 6ft and dark, he's 5'3" and grey; I have a goatee, he is clean-shaven!! Go figure!!




Haven't read any of those books, Grumble, but "Doppelganger" is from old German, and literally means "Double-goer".

It's been used in psychiatry for years, in realtion to a syndrome called "Cap d'Grath"... which is when the sufferer believes that a person (usually a close family relative) is a Doppelganger, and the 'real' person has been spirited away, or killed. Very distressing for the patient, as you can imagine!

DM

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The selfish, they're all standing in line
Faithing and hoping to buy themselves time
Me, I figure as each breath goes by
I only own my mind