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From: rrizzo@bbncca.ARPA (Ron Rizzo)
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Subject: Re: Why do mirrors reverse left & right, not up & down?
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Date: Wed, 1-Feb-84 16:57:42 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  1 16:57:42 1984
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Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma.
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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.