After nearly two decades of receiving traces of other Andrew Bruces online, this was the first time one of them actually replied into a thread I could see. A BBC Radio 4 producer had contacted two Andrew Bruces about an interview request. The other Andrew replied all, and for the first time I saw “Andrew Bruce” answer from somewhere else. Not a bounced address, not a mistaken login, not a dormant profile — a voice.
This has added a new level of uncanniness to the whole doppelgängers project. It’s one thing to see how people “speak” to “me”, but until now I could only speculate about what that “me” was actually like — or at least what his email voice sounded like. Now, I have a trace of “my” voice coming through. This Andrew appears to work in London too. Maybe we have already crossed paths without knowing it.
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