shatterday by harlan ellison

this story is so cool! it was made into one of the first episodes in twilight zone and bruce willis also starred in it. this was the opening narration, which i got from wikipedia: "Some push for what they need; some push for what they want. Some people, like Peter Jay Novins, just push. If they do it hard enough and long enough, something might just push back... from the Twilight Zone." it really suits the story, which is unique and quite freaky. it made me think, what if that happened to anyone? worse, what if that happened to me? haha! but beyond that supernatural vestige and the literal existence of two beings that are the same, there is a deeper, abstract meaning. i think that was well delved into by the group assigned to this. they researched about psychology which, i believe, played a big part in this story. what unfolds in the story, mainly the separation of peter from jay novins or the other way around, may be the representation of what was actually happening to peter jay novins at the moment. he was undergoing a transformation from bad to good.

the story was actually very psychological. he was defeating the bad in himself, and in that sense, he was both a loser and a winner. but i think he was essentially a winner, for he managed to defeat what it was that actually deserved to be repressed or gotten rid of. and then there was the usual triumph of good over evil made unusual by the situation in the story.