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If a man stands before a mirror and sees in it his reflection, what he sees is not a true reproduction of himself but a picture of himself when he was a younger man.
Light has an ascertained and finite rate of travel. Hence...
...Before the reflection of any object in a mirror can be said to be accomplished, it is necessary that rays of light should first strike the object and sub- sequently impinge upon the glass, to be thrown back again to the object–to the eyes of man, for instance.
There is therefore an appreciable and calculable interval of time between the throwing by a man of a glance at his own face in a mirror and the registration of the reflected image in his eye.
But if a woman stands in front of a mirror,
do not disturb.
If anyone tells you The Third Policeman
is the funniest book they have ever read,
you can be certain that person
has a three-digit IQ.
You can also be certain that person
listens to NPR.
In addition to Intelligence Quotient,
IQ also stands for Irish Quotient.
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Footnotes
The enhanced image of Rene Magritte's Not for Reproduction is from here
and the truth about De Selby is there.
Exactly forty-eight more words from this books can be
found elsewhere.
A video discussion about The Third Policeman is worthy
of the last word on this page.
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