yes i am old enough to get that!

I'm so obsessed with this book, I once tried to chase down the screen rights. But they're bound up with the 1970's movie adaptation (which is good, and got an Oscar nom for Best Adapted Screenplay, but strays from the source material), and no one could figure out who actually owned them.

The protagonist spends half her life in a mental hospital, and the other half in a mythological realm of gods and monsters. The story is her struggle to figure out which of these worlds is real.

Thank you Kenneth!

I had to!

that's interesting. I should reread her, it's been a while

We've never actually had the zygosity (or whatever it is) test done, so we don't know for sure. But it's pretty clear -- we look much more alike than typical siblings

p.s. should probably have tagged my brother in this thread @grossman.bsky.social

The study also included the long-awaited Grossmans +5 Confusion Matrix, although it made me no less confused. In conclusion, one of us always tells the truth and the other one always lies, but science is powerless to determine which

However, confoundingly, from a statistical POV my writing more closely resembles @chrisbohjalian.bsky.social's work than it does that of my own identical twin. Conversely his work more closely resembles @scalzi.com's work than it does mine. SEPARATED AT BIRTH?!

If I'm reading this correctly, my writing is more likely to be misidentified as my brother's than his writing is likely to be misidentified as mine. MAKE OF THAT WHAT YOU WILL

oh wow. this is extremely relevant to my interests!

(I think it's originally a stock stage direction from Elizabethan drama, which could also be where Leiber got it -- he came from a theater family)