[net.philosophy] Mirror nightmare

ags@pucc-i (Seaman) (02/15/84)

> I was standing in front of a mirror, admiring my reflection.
> Suddenly my reflection took out a pocket mirror and held it
> up to my face!
> 
> Was my image in the pocket mirror normal or reversed?

What image?  All you could see was the back of the pocket mirror which you
were holding up in front of the big mirror.

If you peeked around the edge of the mirror (or scratched a whole in the
back so you could peek through) you saw a succession of images, fading
into the distance.

All of them were reversed (back to front, of course -- not left to right).

-- 

Dave Seaman
..!pur-ee!pucc-i:ags

"Against people who give vent to their loquacity 
by extraneous bombastic circumlocution."