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The jamais vu papers

Wim Coleman

1991
Metafiction Metaphysics

Did you ever get the feeling you’ve NEVER been here before? Once upon a time in Los Angeles, an addled psychiatrist named Hector Glasco was vainly trying to treat a jaded celebrity named Hilary, who suffered from a chronic and perhaps potentially fatal case of déjà vu—that condition, of course, in which one has the weirdest feeling that one has been here before. First published by Harmony Books/Crown in 1991, The Jamais Vu Papers built a solid following over the years. Eventually, the shortage of recirculating copies drove prices so high that it was clearly time for a new edition. So here again is The Jamais Vu Papers—the entire original book plus a bonus tale and some words about the origins of the whole idea.