So It Goes

You know – I know someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows someone who is famous.  Sometimes it only two or three degrees, but whatever the outcome, it usually ends up with a famous person or, at least, a person you both know.

Perhaps I move in very small circles and know all the fish that swim in that particular pond. Maybe I’ve been swimming in the pond for too long, especially if I meet someone from the same school/town and with the same interests.

On a recent travelling holiday down south, I experienced something new. That is that I met lots of people who may not know someone I know but who looked like people I know.

So how does that work in the separation stakes? I guess it’s a one degree of separation on a tangent: aka I know someone who looks like you.

It seems that the southern part of our continent is home to doppelgangers from the north. It makes conversation strange, aka not talking with familiarity about familiar things to a look-alike, but who is disturbingly nevertheless a stranger.

I guess the next stage is for the person who looks like someone to know someone who knows someone famous who looks like someone they know.

- Linda Muller