word of the day, and a little extra
May. 25th, 2001 09:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scottobeardop·pel·gäng·er or dop·pel·gang·er \DOPP-ul-gang-er\, noun:
A spiritual or ghostly double or counterpart; esp., an apparitional double of a living person; a cowalker. (A phantasmic or ``astral'' body deemed to be separable from the physical body and capable of acting independently.), especially one that haunts its fleshly counterpart.
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[German a double: doppel, double (from French double); see double + Gänger, goer (from Gang, a going) (from Middle High German ganc) (from Old High German).]
You find yourself standing ankle-deep in the surf of a vast, green-blue ocean.
A candy-striped lighthouse stands on the edge of a finger of rock to your left. On your right, the gold-white sand of the beach follows a gentle curve and fades off in the distance. Behind you are your shoes, a large beach blanket and a picnic basket. Sitting on the blanket is a cluster of dainty creatures. They eat tiny, wedge-shaped sandwiches, occasionally sipping from a bone china teacup. One of them, a pale skinned beauty with thick red hair and a black lace parasol watches you and smiles.
"Won't you join us?"
Where your eyes don't go
a filthy scarecrow waves its broomstick arms
and does a parody of each unconscious thing you do.
When you turn to look its gone
but behind your back its wearing
your confused expression
where your eyes don't go.
--- They Might Be Giants
A spiritual or ghostly double or counterpart; esp., an apparitional double of a living person; a cowalker. (A phantasmic or ``astral'' body deemed to be separable from the physical body and capable of acting independently.), especially one that haunts its fleshly counterpart.
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[German a double: doppel, double (from French double); see double + Gänger, goer (from Gang, a going) (from Middle High German ganc) (from Old High German).]
You find yourself standing ankle-deep in the surf of a vast, green-blue ocean.
A candy-striped lighthouse stands on the edge of a finger of rock to your left. On your right, the gold-white sand of the beach follows a gentle curve and fades off in the distance. Behind you are your shoes, a large beach blanket and a picnic basket. Sitting on the blanket is a cluster of dainty creatures. They eat tiny, wedge-shaped sandwiches, occasionally sipping from a bone china teacup. One of them, a pale skinned beauty with thick red hair and a black lace parasol watches you and smiles.
"Won't you join us?"
Where your eyes don't go
a filthy scarecrow waves its broomstick arms
and does a parody of each unconscious thing you do.
When you turn to look its gone
but behind your back its wearing
your confused expression
where your eyes don't go.
--- They Might Be Giants
Re:
Date: 2001-05-25 02:43 pm (UTC)It's from the Rod Serling/Jack Webb school of narration. :)
You've just waded knee deep into....
...The Twilight Zone.