tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post8977174277892972799..comments2024-03-21T07:37:30.475-04:00Comments on Light reading: TwinnedJenny Davidsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02295436498255927522noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post-6065504431466087562009-01-23T22:17:00.000-05:002009-01-23T22:17:00.000-05:00My list would include the title characters of Dona...My list would include the title characters of Donald Newlove's "Leo and Theodore" and "The Drunks" (which he later rejiggered as a single novel published, in paperback, as "Sweet Adversity) and the Capellos in "Pudd'nhead Wilson." Are the Jones brothers in Bruce Chatwin's "On the Black Hill" supposed to be identical? I can't remember.<BR/><BR/>I'd also try to make room for the Peppermint sisters in Peter De Vries's "Consenting Adults, or the Duchess Will Be Furious." They might not technically count, since they're triplets, but it would probably be easier to just send one of them out of the room than try to make up a whole different list to fit them into.Phil Dyess-Nugenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16979900896034692570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post-58267889449731991222009-01-23T22:06:00.000-05:002009-01-23T22:06:00.000-05:00It turns out that there are a lot more famous pare...<A HREF="http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2005/01/twins.html" REL="nofollow">It turns out</A> that there are a lot more famous parents of twins (in real life) than famous twins.<BR/><BR/>Also, fraternal twins are more than twice as common as identical twins (but less fun for literary purposes, perhaps).Andrew Gelmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02715992780769751789noreply@blogger.com