Finally, I had to include a superhero story, where your alternative self is your improved self.
But he also creates a doppelganger, an alternative self whom he both despises and wants to be.
This works surprisingly well, with an alternative self invulnerable to solid structures and enemy fire, enabling you to outmanoeuvre bad guys and solve puzzles.
Sometimes, I wonder whether my hypothetical, alternative self lives somewhere in a parallel universe.
Honour similarly prevented López from abdicating, though perhaps no alternative, self-respecting Paraguayan leader could have surrendered on the secret pact's terms.
Two weeks later, Time, which had celebrated "Sexual Politics" as groundbreaking, outed Millett as "bisexual," suggesting that her sexual identity gave credence to Friedan and others who worried that such alternative self-figurings would fragment the movement.
He became known for articles that functioned like alternative self-help guides, including "The Vice Guide to Eating Pussy," an earnest, if obscene, primer, and "The Vice Guide to Every Religion in the World".
As a photographer, Strindberg was motivated in part by the wish to have not just a second self but a whole repertory company of alternative selves.
It's at times like that that a person winds up in a place like Party City, looking at the exaggerated, cartoon versions of our many alternative selves.
Hence the large box-like structure in which O'Doherty performs, between gauze screens bearing holograms of her past and alternative selves, a spinning sponsor's logo and slogans trumpeting her glorious talents.
_ Freddy has recently become a proponent of Parallel Energetics, with its belief that you go through life accompanied by any number of alternative selves, with the ultimate aim, as Freddy explains, of getting in touch with the "leading edge" yous — "the yous that have worked out a lot of their shit".
