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Now, with the Internet making the world more connected than ever, you have a better chance of not only becoming aware of your namesake doppelganger but interacting with them, too. It may very well turn out that having matching names is not the only thing you have in common.
Lauren P Orsini: Not really. We never had another Lauren in my school that I knew of. Lots of Lauras though, and I was very jealous of them when we read Little House on the Prairie. I've yet to read a book with a Lauren protagonist; now that I think of it we don't have a song, either. The only other Lauren I met growing up was at summer camp and we had the same birthday: maybe my encounters with other Laurens will always be filled with weird coincidences.
LPO: I did! It wasn't the most well known one outside of Rome, but one of the smaller castles. I was about 12 or 13 so I'm sure I'd appreciate it more as an adult, but it was impressive. At the time, I didn't know our family was once nobility, so it blew my mind. I don't think I understood how rich our family history is until then. Then we read Machiavelli in school and got to the part where the Orsinis are all tricked and killed. It was slightly less cool after that.
LRO: This question might be more applicable to me because I decided to keep my maiden name after marriage. My books are authored under this name, and my husband has an even more common last name anyway.
LPO: I actually hated my last name as a kid. I don't think any young girl is crazy about having a name that sounds "bearlike." I also got very tired of spelling it. As an adult I appreciate how unique it is though, especially living in the south. I think I am the only Orsini in my state. I'm not sure if I would change it if I get married, I think I'd want to hang onto it.
LPO: This is embarrassing. When I was 13 or 14 I was (and still am) a huge nerd. I guess my parents didn't educate me enough about the dangers of the internet, and I gave someone in an online game my real name. I immediately realized what a terrible decision it was, and googled my (our?) name to see if they would be able to find me. Luckily, enough prominent Lauren Orsinis had come before me to take up the first pages of Google search results. Thanks, guys.
LRO: Really just with the domain name. As you know, I prefer to go by "laureninspace" on social media like Twitter. But on the other hand, not being able to get my domain name forced me to be more creative.
LPO: Nope! I really don't mind. Regarding your answer, if I can't manage to become Twitter famous within the next few years, you can have the handle. Everyone already thinks it's yours and I just use it to read Mara Wilson's tweets, sorry I get credit for so much of your work!
LPO: All the time. I get a lot of credit for your work, especially on Twitter. Your articles get linked to me occasionally. I remember one that you wrote about Until Dawn and I was a little upset that you did so much better than me. I only kept two people alive. I also get a lot of DMs from your fans, who are really nice people by the way. Don't worry, I tell them I'm not you.
More recently, I applied for an internship and the recruiter contacted me to compliment me on my (your) books and podcast contributions. I'm currently working on improving my knowledge of Python and JS frameworks, and you did a podcast about programming. Hopefully, I can send them this article and this weird circumstance will make me more memorable.
LRO: I assure you, it took me several playthroughs to keep that many people alive! But it amazes me just how much we have in common aside from our names. We both played the same video game around the same time, and we both have sought work in the same field.
Let us be amazed by this photoshoot about the doppelganger of the Chain Bridge. I hope one day I will have the chance to take a look at it with my own eyes. Until that day, I will enjoy the beautiful sight of the Chain Bridge at night.
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Published in 1982, Se non ora, quando? (If Not Now, When?) is Primo Levi's first novel proper. Perhaps Primo Levi is regretted not fully living life as an Italian Jewish partisan that he re-created his lost dream through its pages, and had his partisan brigade not been captured, perhaps Levi's underground fighting might have continued until the end of the war. If Not Now, When? thus might reflect Levi's need to explore that sought-after life as a partisan, which he had been denied after only three months of activity. Did Live write If Not Now, When? as a mental antidote to his arrest? Was he trying to re-create for himself the underground world of freedom fighters, which he was not able to fulfill? Edoardo Bianchini points out that the main theme of the novel is to reclaim human dignity. During the time in which the fictional core of If Not Now, When? takes place, Primo Levi was a prisoner in Auschwitz. Since it is obvious that, while Levi was interned, he could not simultaneously also be a fee man, I propose here that If Not Now, When? might be read and understood as the "other" story, the narrative of that partisan experience that Levi did not live in full, the story of his destroyed dream as an aspiring freedom fighter against the Nazi and Fascist tragedy. I submit, then, the the narrative of If Not Now, When? develops the theme of Levi's doppelganger through the discourse of a fictional, projected alter-ego protagonist. In the novel, Levi focuses on the vicissitudes of a group of Jewish partisan fighters of Eastern Europe, celebrating their courage and writing about their adventures perhaps as a way to counteract the misperception that Jews went to the gas chambers without trying to resist arrest and deportation.
Work brought us back together again about five years ago. And we've since become friends. Hardly a month goes by without an upbeat conversation via Zoom, email or phone. It was thanks only to our current go-round that I discovered our many common denominators.
Our most prominent similarities are physical. Allan is five-foot-eleven, I'm five-ten. He weighs 140 lbs, I 165 lbs. We're each at least half bald. He's age 68, I'm 70. We could both pass as physicians, scientists, lawyers, professors, accountants, Hollywood agents or rabbis (though we are none of the above).
A million men around the globe might fit this description. But our resemblance extends to our professions as well. Allan started his career as a journalist and so did I. He has practiced full-time public relations for 36 years, I for 31. We both still freelance as writers.
But now the probability of having such a duplicate narrows considerably as other coincidences emerge. We both grew up in comfortable Northeastern communities, played pick-up playground basketball since childhood and lived most of our lives in New York City apartments. We both outgrew our boyhood asthma. We are both recovering liberals turned moderately conservative. We're both self-employed and exploring, albeit reluctantly, the concept of semi-retirement (or, the term I prefer, part-time employment).
Once we talk family, though, this whole mirror image business gets strange. Allan and his wife married 41 years ago. My wife and I married 43 years ago. They have a son and a daughter. We have a son and a daughter. We have a grandchild and they're blessed with two.
Even spookier, his daughter married a man born and raised in Italy. Our daughter married a man born and raised Italy. So my double and I both have an Italian son-in-law. With the world populated by more than seven billion people, the odds against this Italian connection must be astronomically high.
Still, discovering a facsimile of myself should come as no surprise. Myths and legends throughout history are rife with tales of creatures such as doppelgangers, invisible spirits from beyond the pale who are just like us.
As it turns out, my carbon copy and I have priorities that are all but identical. We regularly rhapsodize about our offspring. We talk shop, advise each other on career moves, swap client referrals and share industry intel. We cheer for each other in our respective bids for literary immortality.
Bob Brody, a consultant and essayist in Italy, is the author of the memoir Playing Catch with Strangers: A Family Guy (Reluctantly) Comes Of Age. He contributes to The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and The New York TImes, among other publications.
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