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Doppelganger stories often feature reflections or projections that break away from their original and take on a dangerous life of their own. In Hans Christian Andersen’s 1847 fairy tale “The Shadow,” a man’s shadow becomes animate, displacing and then replacing him.
We have to climb, because climbing is what this bit is about. It’s an atmosphere, a thought, not an activity. It’s not like real climbing. Things work differently here. Once you’ve started it’s almost as if you’re crawling along a flat surface, though you still feel as if you’re going upwards.’
Only Forward
Michael Marshall Smith
Pastiche is, like parody, the imitation of a peculiar or unique, idiosyncratic style, the wearing of a linguistic mask, speech in a dead language.
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