(urth) not quite Father Inire's mirrors . . .

[Dan'l Danehy-Oakes]

Gerry Quinn wrote:


> "How foolish to call them mirrors. They are to mirrors as the enveloping
> firmament is to a child's balloon. They reflect light indeed; but that, I
> think, is no part of their true function. They reflect reality, the
> metaphysical substance that underlies the material world."

I think what they really reflect is a great deal of handwaving on
Wolfe's part, and a not insignificant quantity of willing suspension
of disbelief on the reader's part.

-- 
Dan'l Danehy-Oakes