There are duplicated images of electric wires leading nowhere in different hotel rooms, of like fans in different places, of flies and smashed flower petals on different seedy walls.
That night the dog growled ferociously at the door, and Wolfred opened one eye briefly to see infinitely duplicated images of the girl heating the blade of the axe red hot and gripping the handle with rags.
But incredibly, the new paper has come under scrutiny itself for duplicated images.
But it contains four pairs of apparently duplicated images, even though they are labeled as showing different cell lines.
On Friday 22 October, the group surfaced again, this time charging that a stem cell paper in PNAS published in 2009 contained duplicated images, pointing to Figure 5A.
The senior scientist says the message board writer, who claims to be a life science researcher, first pointed out the possibility of duplicated images early on 5 December Korea time.
For Konrad Hochedlinger of the Harvard Stem Cell Institue, it was a bad start to the week: Just after 6 a.m. last Monday, he and a bevy of others received an unsigned e-mail from a virtually untraceable address, [email protected], pointing out what it said "appears to be duplicated images and embryos used in a Nature manuscript published in 2009".
It's a little weird," he said, laughing about seeing those duplicated images of himself.
In fact, the entire house is an image, a duplicated, living image of itself and its occupants, whose stairs we tramp, whose thresholds we cross or recoil from, whose basements we crawl about in - not once, but twice.
