GR translation: Mirrors at high midnight.

[Mike Jing]

Got it.  Thanks all.


On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 6:41 AM, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> " High midnight" is converse of ' high noon' . Sailors are
> superstitious---whole books on---and what Morris wrote. Probably the coffin
> look given the expression here.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Oct 2, 2013, at 1:00 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Bottom Line:
>
> Mirrors in the West are objects of superstition.  Alice went through one,
> al see where she went?  Mirror world is a visible, scary place.
>
> On Tuesday, October 1, 2013, David Morris wrote:
>
>> 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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