The pari-mutuel was perfected with the introduction in the 20th century of the totalizator, a machine that mechanically records bets and can provide an almost instant reflection of betting in all pools.
I remember, too, when we woke, and turned to look into the pool beside our heads, and you thought you saw a fish, a little black darting goldfish-type fish, but it was only the reflection of my glasses, a black shimmering reflected shape that had separated, for an instant, from the reflection of my head and from the rest of my glasses, and seemed a separate darting thing, a fish, or a tadpole?
On his step-grandfather's birthday he watches as the cake is cut: "In the fat triangle of the blade Bo saw his reflection for an instant - wild King Bo stretched across a surface of metal - and then saw himself plunge into the froth of whipped chocolate butter cream..
The kids are quick to buy in, as moments earlier they found an old videotape of David's seventh birthday in which the David of today can, for an instant, be clearly seen in a reflection.
2.1.6, but also of an instant change of phase at the moment of the reflection.
The precious vision lasts for only an instant, but you cling to it as you are faced once more with the reflection of your decaying body.
Lane is so used to his reflection, his myriad expressions, that it's like watching one person have an instant rapport with someone completely different.
In the reflection of the Payless window, I swear I see the one-eyed woman, if only for an instant.
Presto: an instant swarm.
