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SorenK
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 		the mirror woodcut
The 1569 Stephen Batman woodcut 'Of Pride' mentioned in the above article is surely then the one reproduced in MythObs on pg 58.

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SorenK
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 		The brass fittings
I imagine that the 'brass fittings' Alice mentions may well be the back case of the mirror, particularly considering the label.

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 		I think Alice is safe to use the mirror:

Quote:
Objects hurled into the Speculum are lost for good unless Blooded or Cruentus-marked.


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thirdpinion
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 		Ray & Lynn's house
Curiously, there are no mirrors in the house that I can see.....

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wukka
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 		The picture on p.58 is by Carlos Schwabe, and is called the Death of a Gravedigger. I would love to have known this, but I must admit I discovered it at the same time as discovering the source of the text on that page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_%28personification%29
about half way down.
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 		Ignore my previous post!
I was looking at something completely different.
Embarassed

It appears that putting blood on a scrying mirror strengthens the psychic bond between the mirror and the user! OMG, Alice is in danger!

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wukka
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 		...killjoy
And I hate to be one and get practical, but I think having a mirror in the possession of a character in an ARG which you can actually go and see in a museum would be a bit of an oversight...
I'm still convinced that the 'Dr...' is short for something, and that both Marsh and Alice make the same mistake and assume it's short for Doctor.
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SorenK
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 		the mirror of dr...
Due the lack of an intervening article, if The mirror of Dr... is the start of a word, it is probably either a plural (or abstract) noun or a present participle (correct me if I am missing anything major). I attach below a non-exhaustive list of potentials. Dreams/Dreaming/Dreamers seems the most plausible considering Alice's reaction: "it was like I was falling into a dream"

drawing
dreams, dreaming, dreamers
drifting
dripping
driving
drooping
dropping, dropsy
drowning
druids, dryads, dryden
drying

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SorenK
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 		treacle and ink
Apologies if this is old hat, I'm still catching up somewhat - but since a dish of Ink was used by Nostradamus as a scrying surface, and Treacle is a similarly opaque black liquid - Ink & Treacle is presumably a reference to the obsidian scrying mirror [as well as a line from Betjeman's Summoned By Bells][and in Through the Looking Glass]

Moreover, I just read that "Traditionally the mirror was turned to the moon in order to catch the lunar beams of light. The sought after answers were thought to appear as characters in the reflection of the moon." That fits with the Hattie Loon link.

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SorenK
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 		treacle
Indeed, "Hindus used to scry into a bowl of molasses", the primary ingredient of treacle.

I've sent Alice an email to ask for recommendations vis a vis a book on scrying.

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blag
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 		Hello, world.
As usual, I'm arriving to one of these late...

I've read through everything so far, including this forum, and there's a couple of posts that I think are worth going back to:

1. Here, Nara asked Slice about the Mythological Objects book; Slice told him/her that she'd leave them the book. Since the only copy we have is incomplete, this sort-of implies that we have to look for her copy, doesn't it?

2. Mary Jane's diary entries - code, puzzle or herring?

3. Borge's Mirror of Ink - did anyone track down a copy of this?

4. The Dee mirror was first pointed out here but nobody really commented on it.

5. I was getting confused about the various character/wonderland/t@rot connections, so I started sticking them into a table.
Address: http://wetellstories.pbwiki.com/
Email: hrbaxorsdjmiSPLATmailinator.com
Password: wonderland

It's a wiki, so feel free to edit it as much as you like; it's only password-protected so it doesn't fill up with spam.

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wukka
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 		The power of anagrams
Christolina Minaret -

Hermit lost in arcani (or crania)
I, march 'are, lost in tin
Lo! I thirst a nicer man!

I could keep this up all day.
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 		Embarassed

Sorry ambien, i honestly hadn't seen your post about Dee Crying or Very sad
xx

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 		Great work putting a wiki together blag, it's great to get things down in one place!

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Cabbage
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thirdpinion wrote:
I may have found our mysterious Dr......

See Here:

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ku3DHWvg4hwC&pg=PA30&lpg=PA30&dq=obsidian+mirror&source=web&ots=fLr6AovVTH&sig=735NUWbugNbp-RP_fFl4_xIPDaU&hl=en

(hope it works, as I still can't log on properly to edit!)


I go to work and look what happens - excellent find.

Did you read on to the next page, where the text talks about:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
sapphires...

"He also drew attention to Epiphanius' remarks about "Adamanta", a stone "in which diverse signs are given for responding to God," and to the Jewish belief that the original laws given to Moses on Mount Sinai "were expressed in sapphires." The Jewish mystical text Zohar supported this belief, recounting the story that the original tablets of the law were constructed from a divine sapphire that served as the foundation of the cosmos after being cast down from heaven by God."



Treacle and Ink, from Alice's update on her story progress:

"...the greatest sapphire in the world has been stolen!"
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