Name: The Story Mr. Popkiss Told
Author: Algernon Blackwood

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Algernon Blackwood, The Story Mr. Popkiss Told

“ Popklss, ignoring the contradiction, and looking like an offended parrot with his head on one side, “reminds me of one.”
“Which?” inquired the prig smartly, “the railway accident or the narrow escape?” He was a small young man, with red eyes and a face like a weasel. He was also a “psychical student.”
“Both,” said Popklss, looking at him over the top of his spectacles, and spreading out his coattails before the fire, so that he resembled more than ever a parrot, jaunty, yet slightly ruffled, swinging on its perch. ”

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Algernon Blackwood, The Story Mr. Popkiss Told

“ Popklss, unfastening the second button of his coat; “absolutely myself!”
“Another Popklss!” exclaimed the psychical student. “You mean a reflection, of course?”
“At first I thought it was a reflection, for the man copied every movement I made⁠—every single movement. I won’t bore you with details: but everything I did in my carriage that man also did in his carriage. ”

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Algernon Blackwood, The Story Mr. Popkiss Told

“ But for a long time we both ran an even race, neck and neck, and I remember thinking what a fool our engine-driver was not to put on steam ami pull ahead.
“Faster and faster we went. It annoyed me that all these stupid passengers in the other train were so close to me, going to other destinations than mine, It seemed so dull and boring for them. You know the kind of foolish thoughts that wander up and down the mind at such times.”
“Quite,” said the psychical student; “quite!” ”

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Algernon Blackwood, The Story Mr. Popkiss Told

“ That was the queer part of it. Was it still keeping up a neck-and-neck race with my own? For when I put my head further out to look, and as soon as my eyes got accustomed to the gloom, lo and behold, there was no train there at all! Both in front and behind the lines were clear. There was no train, and no sign of one.⁠ ⁠... Five minutes later we ran into Woking Junction.”
The psychical student longed to say something, but his mind was so confused with such phrases as “double personality,” “veridical dreams.” “subliminal consciousness,” and the like, that before he could squeeze out a word Mr. ”

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Algernon Blackwood, The Story Mr. Popkiss Told

“ A world in which he could not explain everything by the processes of his own acute little mind was intolerable to him. And when the others, led by Brown, made difficulties, he fell back upon the delightful generalisation that “to imagine such things at all was a sure sign of mental degeneration⁠ ⁠... ”

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Algernon Blackwood, The Story Mr. Popkiss Told

“ And in the corner seat of that other carriage, so close to my elbow that I could have put my hand out and touched him, sat a man, huddled up in overcoats and rugs, just as I was.”
Mr. Popklss unbuttoned the top button of his coat to allow more freedom for possible gestures. The group of listeners stared with keen attention. The mind of the weasel-faced student was already busily searching for flaws by means of which he might tear the story to pieces the moment it was finished. “Quite inexplicably,” continued Mr. ”

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