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“Ah, what am I saying? Everybody does it. It's precisely their diseases that people pride themselves on, and I do too—more perhaps than anybody else” (Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, pp. 5–6).

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27 Hegel, Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, p. 353.

28 The notion of a “doubled world” comes from Harris.

29 I would like to thank Dr. Howard Adelman and Dr. David A. Jopling, both at York University, for their criticism and comments on earlier drafts of this article.