doppelgang

Yes, it is German I am speaking today.

Funny, but a young lady is coming up to see me and she says, "Encik Nielsen, you have another blog which is not like you at all!"

I am surprised anyone is seeing my other blog, which is in the Danish language (and some people, they think it is Swedish - some people...) and is not easily to be found. So I ask her, "Maria, where is this blog?"

She says, "Cikgu, it is xxxxxxxx.blogspot.com, yah? It is very not like you but it is you, my friend Karinn said."

I have been learning other languages too. So I say, "Alamak, that one, he is really not me!"

But it troubles me. The Alchemist is not like me at all, but he said people thought I was him, and now I am hearing I am like him too. So I walk away after some not so big talk and I wonder. I think it is because we are both marginal Hokkien speakers and not quite working in our home culture, but good at pretending it is not so bad.

For a short while, I am being resentful about having to be compared with him. But then I realise he was OK when he is compared to me, so I should be OK too. So I am OK. But I am not Kapten Hokk, or Major Anonym, or Der Alchemist.