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Originally Posted by Sarah-Jane Crowson
Bevelled edges. I have a material mind. I was looking for the 'guiding thread' (S3) and 'what could not say directly' and some kind of metaphor for reflection and translation (refraction and prisms).
Sarah-Jane
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If you meant that bevels themselves are mirror-like surfaces, then they would make many more reflective surfaces. As the photo
https://www.physicsclassroom.com/cla...-Angle-Mirrors
linked to by Roger clearly shows, the 4 images (of the candle, but also of the hand holding it) are not in bevels, but in the mirrors themselves. Imagine now that the table there is also a mirror surface. Then under the candle and each of its 3 reflections there will be one more, up-side-down copy of it.
P.S. The impossibility of saying "directly" what the source quatrain says is just to say that it needs to be a "translation" as if to a different language (because technically speaking, since the "translation" is in the same language, it is perfectly possible to just copy the source verbatim and say "this is my translation").