The dark twin

This blog is the twin of my other blog. I originally meant for the two blogs to be simple mirrors of each other. Just like actual identical twins--who share not only their outside features but also, I presume, the inner (identical kidneys, identical spleens)--the blogs were to have identical content, and differ only in their names. I was even going to dress them the same.

Then it struck me that they should be wholly different blogs--not twins at all (as they were not born at the same time), but merely brothers. They could be different from each other in starkly contrasting ways, even be enemies, like Edmund and Edgar in King Lear. This could be interesting.

But no, I've settled on a third model--namely the Siamese twin. These blogs will be Chang and Eng, speaking with separate voices, seeing things with separate pairs of eyes, each one reaching for his wife while his brother looks the other way and hums to himself, but bound together, the two of them, by a highly unnatural, shared pelvic center. In short, expect some overlap.

The blog title is, of course, taken from one of the oldest examples of mis-heard rock lyrics, Lennon's "and curse Sir Walter Raleigh" line from "I'm So Tired."