Word: mirroring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...understood friendship, conversation, the normal amenities of social exchange." And later. The two in bed, he shouts at her, "Well go to sleep, cunt. Go to sleep. Die. Fucking vegetable." Fucking vegetable, he shouts at her in bed, little realizing that in her catatonia Maria is only holding a mirror up to the more frenetic stiffs surrounding...
...silky-haired young man with a "not very trustworthy face." Thoroughly shaken, Maurice reels on to an equivocal denouement. His dream of a sexual threesome is achieved with disastrous domestic consequences. He eventually exorcises the ghost but is left haunted hy what he sees when he looks in the mirror. "Death was my only means of getting away for good," he reflects, "from the constant awareness of this body, from this person, with his ruthlessness and sentimentality and ineffective, insincere, impracticable notions of behaving better...
...like the moving armatures of an electrical generator, causing currents to flow in the aluminum strips. These currents, in turn, bu:ld magnetic fields of their own. Just as like poles of ordinary horseshoe magnets repel each other, so do the train's superconductive magnets repel their magnetic "mirror images" in the aluminum strips. In this way the train can be lifted as much as a foot off the ground. If the train drifts slightly to one side, as it will on a curve, the repelling magnetic forces on that side of the pathway will become even stronger, thereby...
...survival in a machine civilization. With the skinned eyes of poverty, he saw that he too might someday lose the battle and wind up on the other side of the desk. Horrified, fascinated, wrung with love, he watched his tenants like a man watching himself die in a mirror. He chatted with them endlessly: he steamed open their letters and read their secrets; and through long, lonely nights in hotel offices, he braided their stories into books...
YEHOSHUA ARIELI, history professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is Aridor's mirror image. Arieli is one of the founders of the "Movement for Peace and Security," which was started by teachers, students and center and left-wing Israeli politicians in 1967 to influence opinion on the question of occupied territories. Arieli would prefer to call the hawks "annexationists" and the doves "negotiators." The annexationists, he feels, are "fanatics at worst and Zionist chauvinists at best." Some negotiator proposals for solving the Middle East crisis...