Word: mirroring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that Karl had his biggest brainstorm: a revolutionary new rear-view mirror for automobiles. "Suddenly I got the idea, what a great thing to see over the top of the car instead of having to see through all those heads and seats and blind spots inside the car. I thought, 'Gee whiz, Karl, here's opportunity knocking at the back door, success. Invent over-the-top rear vision and make money fast...
Panoramic Periscope. So Karl quit the symphony, moved his family from Dallas to Auberry, a town in the foothills below his ranch, and began to develop his mirror full time. The principle was simple: a panoramic periscope. A system of three mirrors, each as wide as the car, mounted in the roof above and inside the windshield. The top mirror juts four inches above the roof, catches an unobstructed view to the rear and sides, and then transmits it via the other two mirrors down to the driver...
Salvation; damnation. Libertinism; slavery. Sexuality; death. To D.H. Lawrence, life was a series of primal contests, a mirror image of the Victorian ideal. Reason lay on one side, passion beckoned on the other, and woe betide the maiden who chose the wrong path. Lawrence, of course, was the advocate of passion. "The tragedy," he warned, "is when you've got sex in your head, instead of down where it belongs...
There is only tentative being; treading icy existential waters. Maybe it's just wanting to be left alone. Maybe it's wanting to see yourself reflected in a world as passive as a mirror. Or wanting to be rid of responsibilities to places or things or people or jobs. Or, just as likely, and just as untrue, it's wanting to create a new world. It's unfortunate that trying to destroy an old one takes up all your time. But these are questions that people in the streets will not listen to. Living in the streets means precisely that...
...insides, the real heart of middle-class life, the dressing room and the cash register, will look all the more comfortable? Maybe our real rituals are the ones between customer and sales person in Saks, the trips to the dressing room, the little dance in front of the mirror, the inquiries about price, the should-l-or-shouldn't I with the spouse, and the final "Well, we might as well because you can't take it with...