glamour, traces, talismanic objects, magic, shine,
reproductions, surface, reflections, identification
‘What was in them was promise. They dealt in transformations: they suggested an endless series of possibilities, extended like the reflections in two mirrors set facing one another, stretching on, replica after replica, to the vanishing point. They suggested one adventure after another, one wardrobe after another, one improvement after another, one man after another.’
Margaret Atwood on women’s magazines, from The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) |
