NPPF Comm 2: My bedroom, part 2

[Terrance]

> 
> The mirror here acts out in miniature a process that much of the novel's
> mirroring serves: transformations in time into art and eternity.  Female
> linked to time, mortality, death, also reminds me of Joyce and Faulkner.
> What's that Joyce quote that has people linked by umbilical cords flying
> through eternity?
> 
> Tempus Fugit

Looking through S~Z's Dictionary I note that she is standing before a
looking glass with a comb. Now if that ain't a Pynchon connection I
don't know what is. Shall I project a word from Graves? Mer maid. Mary
maid Venus. Comb. Glass. 

The entry for "comb, mirror, glass"  in the P-L archives is too long to
quote, but how about that chevel glass. Now that's a horse of different
colour worth a ride on a kingdom for. 

On hinges. Like a book.  

tripych:  A hinged writing tablet consisting of three leaves, used in
ancient Rome.  A work consisting of three painted or carved panels that
are hinged together. [From Greek triptukhos, threefold. 

garland: An anthology, as of ballads or poems.