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I talked with some people from the Philippines yesterday. I mentioned this "scandal"(?) about "SalamIn SalamIn" being "devil's music." I was adamantly assured that the hubbub was "Fake News" and that the title means "Mirror Mirror" like "Mirror Mirror on the Wall Who's the fairest of them all..." I was convinced, but then I remembered a Fernando Pessoa quote an now I'm not so sure.(hahahaha?)
"The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.” #PessoaOnMirrors #FernandoPessoa #BINI
bs2Nov 1, 2024

> β€œMan shouldn’t be able to see his own face--there’s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the gift of not being able to see it, and of not being able to stare into his own eyes.
> Only in the water of rivers and ponds could he look at his face. And the very posture he had to assume was symbolic. He had to bend over, stoop down, to commit the ignominy of beholding himself.
> The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.”

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/560842-man-shouldn-t-be-able-to-see-his-own-face--there-s-nothing
#PessoaOnMirrors #Pessoa #Salamin ?

A quote from The Book of Disquiet

Man shouldn’t be able to see his own face--there’s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the gift of not being able to see it, and of not being able to ...