“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Sunday, August 7, 2011

My Second Favorite Object

...a mirror. The illusions you can create with them far exceed what you can do with a picture or what have you. I have a very narrow Japanese mirror in the bedroom, which gives the most extraordinary illusion of depth. And I just put up a perfectly circular one in the living room. When you have a small house they're essential.

Of course if I was a bit more Taoist I'd put a mirror up above the front door. That way if a passing demon were to see its face, it would be terrified and leave.

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