All across the mulitverse there are backward tribes* who distrust mirrors and images because, they say, they steal a bit of a person's soul and there's only so much of a person to go around. And the people who wear more clothes say this is just a superstition, despite the fact that other people who spend their lives appearing in images of one sort or another seem to develop a thin quality. It's put down to over-work and, tellingly, over-exposure instead.
Just superstition. But a superstition doesn't have to be wrong.
*Considered backward, that is, by people who wear more clothes than they do.
-Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad
Just superstition. But a superstition doesn't have to be wrong.
*Considered backward, that is, by people who wear more clothes than they do.
-Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad
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the confusion of images and realities. There is a Gene Logsdon quote about the English not understanding the Amish suspicion of images and the Amish not understanding the English confusion of image with reality. Something like that. He says it better and I'm too lazy to look it up at the moment.
One reason I live largely without mirrors.
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