It's difficult if not impossible to accuratel y read contemporary-context so many years later, but it is worth pointing out - as the same reviewer did for "The After Hours" and another about-to-be-mentioned - that any tale of a woman traveling alone is going to have different connotations in 1960 than it does in 2016 : "This is also another episode about a single woman traveling on her own, and as in 'The Hitch-Hiker, ' one can see a not-so-subtle subtext that such independence leads only to trouble, or to madness. Image of the self, which threatens to overwhelm and usurp the life of Sign above the doppelganger makes explicit a theme throughout theseĮpisodes: the baggage that these women carry is, at least in part, the But on it? Double number two! She runs away before fainting, and both she and Paul are stuck at the depot until the next bus arrives at seven the next morning. Paul talks to her and tells her it's all probably some misunderstanding but that the bus will be along any moment. She closes the door, and when she opens it, her double is gone. When she opens the door, she sees her - a woman exactly like her, sitting right next to the same valise that was just checked-in moments before. The cleaning lady also tells her she's been in there before, though she has no memory of it. What's going on here? He harrumphs - she's either walking in her sleep or hung over or something: " Would you just go back over there and sit down and breathe through your nose and let me read my magazine?"Ĭonfused she goes into the ladies room. She says that's impossible, her bag is right over - but wait! The bag she had out by the bench is now gone. She remarks it looks just like hers, at which he says it is hers she checked it already. She's distracted by the sight of a bag just like hers in the checked-in area behind him. Situations just don't change that rapidly." The trouble is every ten minutes you're up here requiring one.
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