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Her breakthrough comes as breakthroughs often do: by long and prepared accident.
The Overstory
Richard Powers
A person who has a doppelganger, Freud wrote, “may identify himself with another and so become unsure of his true self.”3 He wasn’t right about everything, but he was right about that.
The problem, however, was that this idea of culture went rather too deep. It seemed to suggest that actual social differences — being a woman rather than a man, or a landowner rather than a window cleaner — didn’t really matter. And this was rather more convenient for men and landowners than it was for women and window cleaners. As long as culture brought us together in spirit, we could remain the mutually hostile, vastly unequal people we actually were. Culture seemed to make all the difference, and yet to make no difference at all.
Britain Is Stronger Divided
Terry Eagleton
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