Comments on: our other selves http://mirabw.com/2005/11/18/our-other-selves/ Mira Burt-Wintonick is a documentary artist and producer for CBC Radio's WireTap. She lives in Montreal. Wed, 10 Nov 2010 17:18:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: -m http://mirabw.com/2005/11/18/our-other-selves/comment-page-1/#comment-1172 -m Wed, 13 Sep 2006 02:37:26 +0000 http://simianuprising.com/mira/?p=245#comment-1172 I think I read a poem of that sort. it was all about jack and jill freaking out inside about being others to their other. not sure if it was Laing though. I think I read a poem of that sort. it was all about jack and jill freaking out inside about being others to their other. not sure if it was Laing though.

]]> By: Isabeau http://mirabw.com/2005/11/18/our-other-selves/comment-page-1/#comment-1171 Isabeau Wed, 13 Sep 2006 01:21:30 +0000 http://simianuprising.com/mira/?p=245#comment-1171 Hey! You two remind me of this poem by the Scottish mental illness psychiatrist, and sometimes poet, R.D. Laing. It is from his great fucked-up little book called Knotts: Narcissus fell in love with his image, taking it to be another. Jack falls in love with Jill's image of Jack, taking it to be himself. She must not die because then he would lose himself. He is jealous in case anyone else's image is reflected in her mirror. Jill is a disturbing mirror to herself. Jill has to distort herself to appear undistorted to herself. To undistort herself, she finds Jack to distort her distorted image in his distorting mirror. She hopes that his distortion of her distortion may undistort her image without her having to distort herself. Hey! You two remind me of this poem by the Scottish mental illness psychiatrist, and sometimes poet, R.D. Laing. It is from his great fucked-up little book called Knotts:

Narcissus fell in love with his image, taking it to be another.

Jack falls in love with Jill’s image of Jack, taking it to be himself.
She must not die because then he would lose himself.

He is jealous in case anyone else’s image is reflected in her mirror.

Jill is a disturbing mirror to herself.
Jill has to distort herself to appear undistorted to herself.

To undistort herself, she finds Jack to distort her distorted image in his distorting mirror.

She hopes that his distortion of her distortion may undistort her image without her having to distort herself.

]]> By: -m http://mirabw.com/2005/11/18/our-other-selves/comment-page-1/#comment-175 -m Sat, 19 Nov 2005 04:47:57 +0000 http://simianuprising.com/mira/?p=245#comment-175 I can't look at myself in the mirror without seeing a distortion of my face now. McLuhan was so right. I can’t look at myself in the mirror without seeing a distortion of my face now. McLuhan was so right.

]]> By: jer http://mirabw.com/2005/11/18/our-other-selves/comment-page-1/#comment-173 jer Fri, 18 Nov 2005 19:09:08 +0000 http://simianuprising.com/mira/?p=245#comment-173 I can't stop looking. I can’t stop looking.

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