Holding the cat, I looked in the mirror and was startled. Fluffie’s face is asymmetrical, but I couldn’t have told you which side has this or that feature. (Can you say without looking which was Moshe Dayan’s good eye?) And yet her mirror image was strikingly strange.<\/p>\n
I’ve had similar experiences a few times before: seeing my face without glasses or beard; seeing my father in person for the first time in a couple of years. At such moments I see – briefly – what the face ‘really’ looks like, before the reality fades into the familiar symbol. Such abstraction is necessary, of course, but I wonder whether there might be some benefit to lifting the veil more often.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Holding the cat, I looked in the mirror and was startled. Fluffie’s face is asymmetrical, but I couldn’t have told you which side has this or that feature. (Can you say without looking which was Moshe Dayan’s good eye?) And … Continue reading