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<p>Fair point. Without VW's statement few if any would probably see
Septimus as Clarissa's double.</p>
<p>More generally, doubles can be recognized even when two
characters lack obvious similarities if</p>
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<li>Other people take the double for the character doubled
(Dostoyevsky's Golyadkin)</li>
<li>A character is fascinated by the double (which might apply to
Clarissa)</li>
<li>A character actually refers to another character as "my
double" ( the captain and Leggatt in Conrad's "The Secret
Sharer".<br>
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<li>The double can be said to represent a character's repressed
desires (this has been argued of Orlick in <i>Great
Expectations</i>, who (again it has been claimed) carries out
Pip's repressed wishes. (Could at a stretch be applied to
Clarissa's desire for death?)</li>
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<p>Jeremy H</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 20.2020 17:06, Stuart N. Clarke via
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<div>I am at a loss: how would we know that Septimus is
Clarissa’s double without VW’s statement? How can we
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<div>Over to you, Book Group.</div>
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