Observations on Doubles (6)

Plutarch noted well n the days of the Greeks and Romans that they live by parallel lives, most famously Cicero and Demosthenes, given in plot line and no more, though separated by centuries, the hour of the glories of Apollodorus and Pseudo-Appolodorus, the grammarian and the librarian respectively, who preceded that familiar Renaissance trope of the twins alike in many respects (too many respects) but different in their souls' moments of delight, cleverly cleft at the womb, those happy two of numerous mishaps in which but one is hapless left for the sake of those polyps known as doubles who do the same job just as well and justly, too, just as Marx judged they would, and the one envies the other, the two having made division of labor and themselves.