Twin resemblance is an overall aura rather than a feature-by-feature match

Evidence

It had always been said that we were identical, but that must have been an overall impression, our aura, because if you took us feature by feature there was very little similarity. The only thing was possibly the eyes, which both of us inherited from mum. Yet when I moved to Bergen and met Yngve’s more peripheral acquaintances they would sometimes ask, ‘Are you Yngve?’ That I was not Yngve was obvious from the formulation of the question, because if they had thought I was, they clearly would not have asked. They asked because they found the similarity striking. — Karl Ove Knausgaard, A Death in the Family, 1967

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Knausgaard’s entire project around identity, doubling, and being mistaken for another — the auratic self versus the feature list. — connects to: Strangers are perceived by type rather than as individuals — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 401; Perfect resemblance destroys the imaginary because exact doubling erases the image itself — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 352

Broader Connections

• Strangers are perceived by type rather than as individuals #expands (0.78) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 401