GR translation: Mirrors at high midnight.
David Morris
fqmorris at gmail.com
Tue Oct 1 19:32:30 CDT 2013
http://ajoyfulchaos.blogspot.com/2009/11/mirrors-at-midnight.html
And then my friend Nancy said if you look into a mirror while the clock is
striking at midnight you will see how you will look in your coffin.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/If_you_stare_into_a_mirror_at_midnight_on_H_alloween_what_will_you_see#page1
If you stare into a mirror at midnight on Halloween you will see your
future spouse.
On Tuesday, October 1, 2013, Mike Jing wrote:
> V450.7-17 (P457.22-33) . . . .they go poking away down the narrow
> sausage-shaped latrine now, two young/old men, their feet fade and cease to
> ring on the sloping steel deck, their forms grow more transparent with
> distance until it’s impossible to see them any more. Only the empty
> compartment here, the S-curved spokes on the peep-show machines, the rows
> of mirrors directly facing, reflecting each other, frame after frame, back
> in a curve of very great radius. Out to the end of this segment of curve is
> considered part of the space of the Rücksichtslos. Making it a rather fat
> ship. Carrying its right-of-way along with it. “Crew morale,” whispered the
> foxes at the Ministry meetings, “sailors’ superstitions. Mirrors at high
> midnight. We know, don’t we?”
>
> What is this "Mirrors at high midnight"? I couldn't find any reference to
> it.
>
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