The Whipgraft Delusion

The Whipgraft Delusion

n.
the phenomenon in which you catch your reflection in the mirror and get the sense that you’re peering into the eyes of a stranger, as if you’re looking at a police sketch of your own face aged forward twenty years, which would imply that the real you is out there somewhere, wandering the streets of your old neighborhood, still at large.

In horticulture, whip grafting is when you fuse the top of one plant to the bottom of another. In psychology, the Capgras delusion is the conviction that a loved one has been replaced by an identical-looking imposter.

The Giltwrights

Hiddled

Elsing

The Whipgraft Delusion

Lyssamania

Agnosthesia

Fool’s Guilt

Candling

Symptomania

Leidenfreude

Wellium

Fitching

Solysium

The Wends

Nementia

Typifice

Flichtish

The Standard Blues

Kadot

Kenaway

On Tenderhooks

Etherness

Insoucism

Viadne

Clockwise

Arroia

Ellipsism