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Index: Six-way Mirror

6 The Oak

‘LADY GREGORY’S EARTHLY nightmare: the crash of the acorn, and the roots jostling each other rudely through the cleft.’ An Arthurian oak ship, sailing the seven centuries, is under attack from aliens. The bark emits a gall that traps every familiar monster in a spherical prison – a setback so habitual it alters the course […]

3 The Moth

‘THERE IS NOTHING to be gained, not even justice, by putting on trial the moth that has eaten the tapestry. It warrants the same amnesty as a rust moth.’ Our own lives may seem crepuscular in the wisdom of a warm summer night. Yet the dust on Castaneda’s moth, loose on its powdery wing, is […]

2 The Friend

‘ALPHABETICAL SEATING ARRANGEMENTS at the police academy encourage alphabetical groups of friends, with congestion in address books.’ A mishap in the tanning booth leaves him with an over-tanned front and pale back. It will be slow to fade, though his back can be darkened if he’ll risk the machine again. This duo – left-brain and […]

1 The Mirror

‘LOOK BOTH WAYS before you cross yourself. Gaze first at the hills in the picture and then at the picture made by the hills.’ Eureka! The crackpot scientist brandishes his formula: seven shards of light at right angles to flowing water. Only by running around the back of his mind could he take his panoptic […]