Sunday, February 05, 2006

Man in the mirror

When I was just a little girl, I was afraid of mirrors. I thought that I was the reflection, and that I would disappear if the person on the other side walked away from the mirror. Thinking back to this now, maybe I am on the wrong side of the mirror . . . maybe our world is on the wrong side of the mirror. I wonder what life would be like if I stepped through - journeyed to the other side.

Only Alice knows.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

in "Breakfast of Champions", vonnegut keeps referring to mirrors as "leaks", as in a leak from another world into ours.

you may be onto something here....

Anonymous said...

In the story of Narcissus, a mirror, in the form of the reflection in a pool, leads to the main character's demise. But in Jitterbug Perfume, a mirror, in the form of a shiny silver plate, saved Alobar's life.

One man's trash...!