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MEETING ONE’S SELF
An Englishman, Osbert Sitwell, once wrote a novel that had a memorable scene in it, even though it was only fancy. The novel was entitled, The Man Who Lost Himself. In the middle of the novel there is a scene where the hero was trailing a person in Paris. He wanted to know if the man he was after was stopping at a certain hotel. He figured out that one way to do it without exciting suspicion would be to go to the clerk and ask him if he himself–giving his own name–was registered there. Then, when the clerk was looking at the register, he could glance down the page and see if the name if the other man was entered. So he carried out the plan and then got the shock of his life. The clerk looked up and said: “Yes, he has been looking for you. He is in Room 40. I will have you shown right up.” There…