First Post!

Hey, so I totally didn't realize I was alphabetically the first until like, five seconds ago, so sorry it took so long! My last name starts with M... didn't think it'd be me

Okay, so I know that we touched on this in class but I wanna talk about the dopplegaenger. (I can't get the diacritic umlaut to work, so the spelling changes). I stumbled upon a book a few years ago by Jorge Luis Borges called The Book of Imaginary Beings, wherein he described the history, literary importance, and general meaning of the dopplegaenger. Anyway, so the description is only about 400 words or so, but he says a lot.
Concepts of the dopplegaenger have also been said to be a link to parallel universes and time travel etc, etc. So as related to The Lost World, Professor Challenger and the king of the ape-men are each other's dopplegaenger, though it's rather ambiguous as to who is the "evil" twin and bringer of death or whatever.
As primitive as the ape-men are portrayed in comparison to the Brits, I think that the notion of a dopplegaenger is a product of having been "taken back in time" by the expedition to witness the prehistoric scenes. I don't know what else to say other than the appearance of a dopplegaenger has linked the modern world with the prehistoric one, but it's out of the public eye. It's in a remote forest that, at the time was largely unexplored...

I get wordy. Sorry guys...
Your turn.


Alli