Still mystified, RCL! I've used spirit levels, and seen them used. My contractor didn't use them enough! But here EB speaks of the "mirror's bevel" -- isn't that another image entirely? Mirrors and cut glass often have bevels along the perimeter, after all. Where is a clue that EB circles back to her original image in her final image, after a linear progression to the compass and the thermometer? And is it good writing to abandon the world of interesting objects by ending with a happy bird?
This is my way of agreeing with Julie's original point: EB doesn't close the sale.
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Originally posted by RCL:
Kate, a level, also called a spirit level,is a tool for measuring horizontal, vertical, or angled surfaces. There's a bevel at its center, liquid, that refracts light, etc. etc. An unabridged dictionary will give you more details. It also may allude to the fire-bird, or Phoenix prevalent in folklore and art. She apparently imagines it broken, freeing the "spirit," like a run amok rainbow.
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