ATDDTA(10) Mirrors Mirrors On The Walls [276]

[Keith]

Mirror Mirror on the wall
Who's the wickedest of all
Three blind mice, deepest fear
Welcome to the House of Mirrors
Mirror Mirror on the wall
Who's the wickedest of all
Three blind mice, deepest fear
Welcome to the House of Mirrors

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[276:1] "Jennie Rogers's House of Mirrors"

Jennie Rogers

(b. Pittsburgh, July 4, 1843- d. Denver 1909; b. Fairmount Cemetery  
under the name Leah Wood).

Leah J. Tehme ran through several marriages and even more names  
before arriving in Denver in 1880. She gravitated to Market Street,  
the wickedest street in the Rockies. On that boulevard of the  
bagnios, she bought a small parlour house from Mattie Silks and began  
recruiting the most seductive brides of the multitudes. These  
solicitous sisters of perpetual indulgence made Jennie’s place an  
intimate haven where gentlemen could enjoy the finest cigars, the  
best of brandies, and the most nubile of discreet companionship.

http://www.denvergov.org/AboutDenver/history_char_rogers.asp
http://www.flickr.com/photos/denverjeffrey/318054968/

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[276:5] "polyhedral of mirrors"

A shape formed by three or more planes intersecting at a common  
point. [American heritage Dictionary]

http://bulatov.org/polyhedra/mirrors/index.html

http://www.kobe-du.ac.jp/gsdr/gsdr/kiso04/02-e.html

The mirror motif again. This time with more complexity to transform a  
co-ed into a whore or temptress.

This Denver reflection is dominated by references to eyes and seeing/ 
gazing, from (1) the intial spark to admiring herself in mirrors to  
(2) Frank staring/gazing at Wren to (3) Wren seeking another girl's  
eyes to (4) a description of Wren's opium half-masted eyelids to (5)  
Frank and Wren looking 'eye-to-eye' to (6) kohl around her eyes  
running down in tears. http://tinyurl.com/2vp9xv

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[276:23] "dress cavalry helmet"

http://tinyurl.com/2bvggm


[276:37] "kohl" - (cf, antimony at [275:9])

A cosmetic preparation, such as powdered antimony sulfide, used  
especially in the Middle East to darken the rims of the eyelids. (AHD)

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[276:39] "incomprehensible though wicked peignor"

http://www.marshasvintage.com/page/page/921996.htm

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So what do you think this Wren-induced trip to a brothel is all  
about. Especially in light of the sexuality in the previous section's  
Unholy Trinity? While Lake is rather flat, one-dimensional, Wren is  
constantly transmogrified from scholar to whore to seeker. Why is  
Frank placed up against Wren?