Doppelgangers (2016)
“He remembered, as on it appeared: “Certified interviewee No. 1 for”—and then followed the date and hour, 3:30, 352, 1996. Yes, it was time. He would have to do without his secretary but the process was going on. Time and Tide wait for no man, or no mask. And it was well: The tides can wash away everything in the end, even Lady Macbeth’s hand, even a remodeled face. He might, in the end, forget that he was ever a private person, a particular man, and be washed by the flow of process into the vas...t shape of the mask into which he had been cut and thrust, a great depersonalized object, a smooth-worn hub or pivot of the turbine through which raced the waters of the endless flux that drove mankind. He gained his desk and pressed the switch of assent.
Within two minutes the door on his left opened and his visitor mounted the dais, facing him over the desk. At first sight he seemed the inventor sort that he should be—the cerebrotonic type in almost excess. There was the long, high-arched skull well seen as it rose above the small, flat-pressed ears, for though not bald the scalp was covered only with a fine down, almost like a cap of silk.MoreLess
Within two minutes the door on his left opened and his visitor mounted the dais, facing him over the desk. At first sight he seemed the inventor sort that he should be—the cerebrotonic type in almost excess. There was the long, high-arched skull well seen as it rose above the small, flat-pressed ears, for though not bald the scalp was covered only with a fine down, almost like a cap of silk.MoreLess
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