Zelig-like

Allen's one-liner reveals that he thinks there is something Zelig-like in himself, increasing the intrigue that this human chameleon offers.

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Ideal agency would exhibit determination in any environment whatsoever; sometimes it would have to do so through Zelig-like polymorphism, so we should not be using ideal agency as our reference point when we are trying to understand the bounded agency we encounter in real life.

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Echoing these Zelig-like anxieties in the preface to his autobiographical play The Floating Light Bulb (1982) , Allen flatly states that the author's "one regret in life is that he is not someone else."

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My grandfather turns up, Zelig-like, somewhere in the background of so many historic photographs and documentary film clips that sometimes I would ask myself whether the obscure but unavoidable ubiquity of his curriculum vitae in the history of the last century did not suggest a notewothy, albeit questionable, capacity to empathize and adapt—a pathological malleability.

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