What Mirrors Don’t Show Us: A Guest Post by Elise Stephens
I’d like to begin by making a claim: Mirrors aren’t entirely honest. That is, the information they reflect is incomplete. I’m not referring to inversion; experience teaches us that mirrors flip reality and send it back in a way that seems *almost* right until we try and fail to read the backward letters or follow the path in the maze. The dishonesty I’m talking about is the omitted details of psyche and personhood that a mirror can’t show and therefore can’t honestly report on. A mirror’s reflection might show bags under the eyes, but it doesn’t tell how those bags…