I wrote a book. A blogger rewrote it in nine paragraphs using my own sentences, images, and my name. It was so seamlessly constructed I assumed I had written it until years later when attempting to use the rewrite as a summary of my book, I found no such paragraph existed in my work. He had rearranged sentences and parts of sentences into new paragraphs that produced an alternative me, a double that might have had an entirely different academic career as his version was perhaps stronger, clearer, and more aligned with the disciplinary norms of sociology than my own. This is an investigation into a new war of dreams, the uncanny, the coexistence of doubles, and what a blogger on the far edge of my world was able to do to my work and me.

我写了一本书。一位博主用我自己的句子、图片和我的名字将它改写成九段。它构造得如此天衣无缝，我以为我已经写了它，直到几年后试图用重写作为我的书的摘要时，我发现我的作品中不存在这样的段落。他将句子和部分句子重新排列成新的段落，产生了另一个我，一个可能有完全不同的学术生涯的替身，因为他的版本可能比我的版本更强大、更清晰，更符合社会学的学科规范。这是对一场新的梦想之战、离奇的、双人共存的调查，以及一个在我世界边缘的博主对我和我的工作所做的事情。