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title: The moon is gone and in its place a mirror
genre: prose
project:
title: Elegies for alternate selves
css: elegies
order: 18
prev:
title: Ronald McDonald
link: ronaldmcdonald
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title: The mountain
link: mountain
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The moon is gone and in its place a mirror. Looking at the night sky now
yields nothing but the viewer's own face as viewed from a million miles,
surrounded by the landscape he is only vaguely aware of being surrounded
by. He believes that he is [alone][], surrounded by desert and mountain, but
behind him---he now sees it---someone is sneaking up on him. He spins around
fast, but no one is there on [Earth][]. He looks back up and they are yet
closer in the night sky. Again he looks over his shoulder but there is
nothing, not even a desert mouse. As he looks up again he realizes it's
a cloud above him, which due to optics has looked like someone else. The
cloud blocks out the moon which is now a mirror, and the viewer is
completely alone.
[alone]: apollo11.html
[Earth]: serengeti.html
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