mirror

What brought ourWorld into being?

The mirror. A device built purposely to give us Ourself.

In it we see an image, a representation that has no material connection to us, nor to any other being.

The measure we take of what we see in the mirror implicates no one else, no thing else; it abstracts, projects, perpetrates an Other of Ourself, which we then contemplate.

It does not make us love ourself, as with that foolish boy leaning over the drifting stream, in love with loving, as when we were young, so long ago — we know the face in the stream is not real: we can see the minnows swim through it.

No: that was not our need. We needed an appliance. To capture the image alone, house it in a frame, so we can bring it with us, in our gear.

What we see there is only beauty, utterly enchanting — and no meat, with its mess, its smell, its rot.

Yes, ourWorld is there, in the mirror, if anywhere...