Twiddledum Twaddledum Author:Peter Spielberg A half serious, half joking take-off on the traditional developmental novel. Twiddledum Twaddledum presents the fortunes and misfortunes, the adventures and misadventures of a young man in search of himself in an absurd world where opposites are identical twins but never reconciled. Hate and love, pleasure and pain, victory and defeat, birth and... more » death, fear and courage, lust and nausea are only surface masks beneath which we'll find, as the title implies, the same face. This satiric novel mirrors a schizoid world in which dangers are part actual and part imaginary; where punishment is sought yet fled from; where guilt is accepted at the same time that it is denied; where fiction and reality are interchangeable.« less