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For the longest time I had always thought that “looking glass” was an old way of referring to a small kind of terrestrial telescope, perhaps gilded and set out on the verandah of a country club to watch the mountains. But I found out it is actually another word for “mirror".
And with that it all makes so much more sense.
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Photograph by me. Cody Ellingham on Instagram