Open AccessDoppelgänger
Author(s) -
Miguel Zapata Ferreira
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
encuentros
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2216-135X
pISSN - 1692-5858
DOI - 10.15665/encuent.v17i01.1950
Subject(s) - laughter , tautology (logic) , psychoanalysis , literature , sign (mathematics) , art , philosophy , psychology , computer science , autoepistemic logic , multimodal logic , description logic , programming language , mathematical analysis , mathematics
The Chinese Box. Doppelgänger. The dreamer who is dreamt. Tautology. All those would be appropriate titles. When Professor Sugar told me the story, my first reaction was to try to forget it. I failed. Its memory returned to me like the burning heels of blistering, narrow shoes. I confess that in a somewhat sadistic way, I have laughed at it. Laughter is also a sign of madness. The story is, after all, politically incorrect. For all of this, I decided to write it. This way, I would remember it as fiction, and I would have forgotten it is real.