"Sent," an elaborate hall of mirrors, begins with a folk tale of sorts featuring the desecration of a family heirloom, a carved wooden headboard, and then follows the carver's descendant straight online, to one of millions of porn clips.
"Nobody ever warned me about mirrors," begins the narrator, Boy, a pale white girl in Manhattan's East Village whose rat-catcher father beats her until she runs away to a small town in Massachusetts and marries a man she doesn't love.
"Be Right Back", the first episode of a new series of Black Mirror, began in mundanity, a young couple – Martha and Ash – teasing each other affectionately as they drive through the night.
But by 2001, when the talk was of "demographics," and after Sept. 11, when "safety" was no longer only for women and city folk, the face in the rear-view mirror began to look out of style.
Mr Morgan's defiant grip on the editorship of the Mirror began to loosen yesterday when the commander of the army regiment at the centre of the scandal called on him to apologise amid further evidence that the pictures had been faked.
Construction of the Perkin-Elmer mirror began in 1979, starting with a blank manufactured by Corning from their ultra-low expansion glass.
What mattered to me most was that I felt more like myself; the person I saw in the mirror began to resemble the person I felt inside.
"Look into a mirror," begins the first chapter of his latest book.
Since we are ineluctably shaped by the reflecting mirror that is society, Mr. von Mayenburg suggests, once the mirror begins reflecting something different back to us, we become entirely different people.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to look into the mirror, beginning with you.
"When a tongue dies/Divine things… Are no longer reflected/In that mirror," begins historian and anthropologist Miguel León Portilla's poem Cuando Muere una Lengua, or When a Tongue Dies.
