You walk down a road that is lit with candles and untouched by car headlights.
Some things shimmer. The rest carry on as they would, only with shadier edges. There are pan shops here and there, and here is the strange thing about pan shops, they have a plastic mirror in them that you must look into, no matter what, screw vanity. Even today in the darkness you wait for the exact moment when you shall pass these mirrors and the candles shall light up your face in the mirror at one precise angle, like a reverse eclipse. And you shall look in once. Just once, swiftly, to see whether it is you after all who are walking through a city during a power cut, before you become just another face blending into a road lit with candles and untouched by car headlights.
1 day ago
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Plastic mirrors? What are those?
@Neelu, the frame is made of plastic. use thy brains.
Your first comment on my blog was about mirrors in paan shops.
But the mirror itself is made out of glass. It cannot be a plastic mirror.
The plastic mirror is a mirror made of glass(duh) and framed in plastic, often a portable one
@ sarbajaya: thank you for the edification :D
@ neelu/theprophet: aargh, shuttup.
@ sroyon: and it was about the world preening, i think. clearly i devote too much time to thinking about paan shops.
@ monorina: yes, exactly. although you could take fibre and coat it with a reflective material to make a mirror, methinks.
wow...beautifully expressed :)
left me speechless.
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