Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site bbncca.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!bbncca!rrizzo From: rrizzo@bbncca.ARPA (Ron Rizzo) Newsgroups: net.philosophy Subject: Re: Why do mirrors reverse left & right, not up & down? Message-ID: <541@bbncca.ARPA> Date: Wed, 1-Feb-84 16:57:42 EST Article-I.D.: bbncca.541 Posted: Wed Feb 1 16:57:42 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 2-Feb-84 01:32:42 EST References: <664@dciem.UUCP> <537@bbncca.ARPA> Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 6 Let's remove images of persons or things that have fronts & backs from the debate by substituing the following paraphrase: Alice climbs up on the mantle of the fireplace, and lo! the drawing room appears backwards [oops--that word! Of course, she means right/left switched] in the looking glass. How curious, she thinks.