“There are visions a man can only tolerate in a mirror. To see them face-to-face turns him to stone.”
After Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, where he tracks allusions to whales and cetology, I keep a running list of references to recursion, innovation, mythology, and glamour.
“There are visions a man can only tolerate in a mirror. To see them face-to-face turns him to stone.”