“ Is he wearing a mask – a death mask? Might Akkerman have stumbled upon the mirror of Jean Cocteau’s Orpheus, the portal to the murky Zone of death? Which one of these Akkermans is he? Or is he all of them? How little this schizophrenic hall of Akkermans reveals about the nature of self! Is he being punished for this vain and pointless enterprise, condemned to travel aimlessly through his subconscious in Dante-esque circles of Hell? “
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