![]() ![]() “I feel like I’m sitting on a chair that’s sideways. “It hurts my brain!” She appeared distressed, then laughed. She was quiet for a moment, tilted her head back and forth. Why is that?” She approached the setup I’d created at the vanity table (haha) and took a seat. “Because in a lot of photos I have one eyebrow up, but in the mirror, I don’t see it. “I feel like I’m going to be crooked,” MR Managing Editor Gyan said nervously when I called her into the fashion closet for a look. But I waited to take a good hard look myself. According to its website, “ is formed by taking two special ‘front-surface’ mirrors and joining them at exactly 90 degrees to form a seamless, three-dimensional, non-reversed image.” The result is a mirror shaped like the corner of a room, which inverts your typical reflection (i.e., when you lift your right hand to touch your right cheek, the mirror reveals a hand on the left side of your face). ![]() Nobody except everybody wanted a look, but I made them wait as I inspected the strange contraption myself. When the True Mirror arrived, news spread around the office fast. It would be a while before I’d stumble upon a defendable reason to procure one, but then Vanity Month arrived at, and finally the time was nigh. How unsettling, I thought, and then: I need to see it. “Looking into it is like meeting yourself for the first time.” This is how the True Mirror experience was first explained to me many years ago-a description I would never forget. Which is why I have nothing against the mirror itself-how could I? Its chilling results are no one’s fault but my own. Left ear on the right, right eye on the left, crooked nose as crooked as it appears in broad daylight. Most importantly, it has but one simple job, which is to reveal the face of anyone who looks into it-not flipped, as it would be in any old mirror, but as the face appears to others. With its bulky black frame, it is deeper than your average mirror-like a box-but at only 10 cubic inches, it’s otherwise unassuming. As a consumer product, it is harmless, even noble in its clear-eyed ambition: to tell the truth. I feel it’s important to begin this by clarifying that I have nothing against the True Mirror. ![]()
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