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This poem, cited as the origin of the term 'third man syndrome,' describes sensing a third person walking alongside the speaker and another individual.
But it actually did come indisputably from this T.S. Eliot poem from 1922.
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Episode: Short Stuff: Third Man Syndrome
This poem, cited as the origin of the term 'third man syndrome,' describes sensing a third person walking alongside the speaker and another individual.
But it actually did come indisputably from this T.S. Eliot poem from 1922.
This is from T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland. Three words. Who is the third who walks always beside you? When I count, there are only you and I together. But when I look ahead up the white road, there is always another one walking beside you, gliding wrapped in a brown mantle, hooded.