In his absolute gentleness and pacifism, his ideas spoke directly to the DuBoisian "double consciousness," imagining compositions to play into the ears of Fanon and Wilderson as they mourned the humanity that black people never had.
"If the desire for a biological connection is strong enough to make adults choose donor conception," say the authors, "then it is the ultimate double standard to imagine that the desire for biological connection will not be felt just a strongly by the donor conceived child....this natural curiosity should be supported by parents, by the fertility industry, and by the rest of us".
One legless crutch is doubling over: I imagine it throwing up in the gutter.
As skaters go through the motions of their programs, it's easy to imagine their frantic thoughts: "Double axel, double toe, double loop — check, check, check.
"You look at the Cubans, the Ukrainians and the Chinese and all their double Olympic champions and imagine how great that would be.
The Prism bag is not only brightly coloured, but it's knitted, too, and we imagine would double nicely as a tea cosy.
"In the bedroom was Mum, Dad, me, and then my younger brothers, as they arrived … Then it was six fourr kids, two parents … you imagine: two double beds and a cot in a tiny room with an oil heater".
In fact, just as Mirren, the actress, has acquired the regal confidence to leave the theatre and command silence in the streets (when vexed by drummers), it has become easy to imagine her double deploring, if not a hereditary monarchy, then the lamentably few roles – outside her palaces – available to older working women.
A different double standard is to imagine that if software does X, then it also can do Y, ignoring that people can't because the skills don't transfer.
Otherwise, it is hard to imagine the double Grand Slam champion sitting on the bench in his native country if the tie is still very much in the balance - especially as Jamie is playing so well and is in a British shirt for the first time since 2011.
