Hall of Mirrors
by Fredric Brown
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For an instant you think it is temporary blindness, this sudden dark that comes in the middle of a bright afternoon.It must be blindness, you think; could the sun that was tanning you have gone out instantaneously, leaving you in utter blackness?Then the nerves of your body tell you that you are standing, whereas only a second ago you were sitting comfortably, almost reclining, in a canvas chair. In the patio of a friend's house in Beverly Hills. Talking to Barbara, your fiancee. Looking at show more Barbara -- Barbara in a swim suit -- her skin golden tan in the brilliant sunshine, beautiful. . . . show lessTags
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- Canonical title*
- Die Halle der Spiegel [Kurzgeschichte]
- Original title
- Hall of Mirrors [short story]
- Original publication date
- 1953-12 (Galaxy Science Fiction) (Galaxy Science Fiction)
- People/Characters*
- Norman Hastings
- First words
- For an instance you think it is temporary blindness, this sudden dark that comes in the middle of a bright afternoon.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)You sit there, staring straight ahead of you blindly, seeing in your mind's eye the vista of a set of facing mirrors, like those in an old-fashioned barber shop, reflecting the same thing over and over again, diminishing into far distance.
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- Englisch
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- Fiction and Literature, Science Fiction
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