Tag: A.S. Byatt

  • Mirror, Mirror

    Mirror, Mirror

    Cross-posted at Luna Station Quarterly. Is anything more two-faced than a looking glass? Even the words—mirror in English and miroir in French, espejo in Spanish and spegel in Swedish—have roots hinting at our ambivalence toward an invention that sprang from nature and was perfected in the scientific age. Mirror and miroir are derived from the Latin mirare (to…