The Outfit

One is ruled by a mirror image; I mean, by concerns about social appearance.  This fact, well documented by novelists; since it forms much of their observational material that people are vain and trivial, raises the question of how then, is it so vague to us, how is it so ill-seen, such a cloud of nothing, that here lies the dictator, posing in the mirror?  Its ‘triviality’ perhaps distracts us from acknowledging the power thereby hidden in that blank mistachioed sad face; so it is not factored in to the politics of life - that is, so that it doesn’t register as a reality.  In any case it makes us impractical in how we think of ourselves that this oversight should be so normal.  There is almost no detachment from social self-image but within the supposition that that is irrelevant - !

Tags: Clothes, Mirrors, Narcissism