Subject: Re: twins From: statman@oak.circa.ufl.edu (Charles D. Kincaid) Date: 1990-12-06, 07:32 Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks In article , carey@cs.uiuc.edu (John Carey) writes: > >It disturbed me that they glossed over the resolution of Maddy's murder > >so quickly. Mostly, the obvious resemblance was barely mentioned. > > > >Now, I seem to remember a discussion once of themes involving twins > >and look-alikes, and one of the variations was where the twins were > >identical but nobody seemed to recognize the resemblance. > > > >can anyone think of such a movie, book, TV show, where this plot > >device is used? > > > > > > > >-- > >John Carey > >University of Illinois > >Dept. of Computer Science > >carey@a.cs.uiuc.edu {uu-net,pur-ee,convex,...}!uiucdcs!carey The high-quality, disturbing, thought-provoking, (etc.) play Equus uses the theme of twins a lot (e.g. "uu" in the title). I highly recommend seeing or at least reading the play and maybe prior doing some brief research into the psychological aspects. I like the analogy with the Salvador Dali painting. charles d. kincaid statman@stat.ufl.edu Faster than convergence in probability, more powerful than the Central Limit Theorem, able to leap tall histograms in a single bound; Look up in the sky. It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's STATMAN!!