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 stare into his own
eyes.
Only in the water of revers and pound
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.
Pessoa
The Book of Disquiet
translation: Richard Zenith
p. 384
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