Advice from the Caterpillar :

Mar 07, 2005 11:53

The Caterpillar and ALice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of his mouth and addressed her in a languid, sleepy voice.

"Who are YOU?" said the Caterpillar.

This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replyed, rather shyly,

"I-I hardly know, Sir, just at present- at least I know who I WAS when I got up this moring, but I think I must have changed several times since then."

Narcissus fell in love with his image, taking it to
be another.

Jack falls in love with Jill's image of Jack, taking it
to be himself.
She must not die, because then he would lose himself.
He is jelous in case any one else's image is reflected
in her mirror.

Jill is a distorting mirror to herself.
Jill has to distort herself to appear undistorted
to herself.

To undistort herself, she finds jack to distort her
distorted image in his distorting mirror
She hopes that his distortion of her distortion may
undistort her image without her having to distort herself.
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