taste me, as the food and drink Alice found almost said. she was cast unto a stormshorn sunderedsea. you too will fall beneath my waves in time.


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endlessforms
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are there any alternative literary/mythological allegories i can make allusions to that fulfill the same metaphor as the mirror of erised1?

i always thought it was a powerful piece of imagery


  1. a magical mirror in harry potter which shows your reflection with your deepest desire fulfilled, which people go insane or waste months or years of their life sitting in front of staring at in a kind of hollow pseudohappiness which ultimately only makes them more miserable. they could be out taking actual actions to make their life better and more fulfilling but instead they just stare at something perfect, yet totally non actionable, that they can never really have


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