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    Hall of Mirrors
    Hall of Mirrors
    Hall of Mirrors
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    Hall of Mirrors

    By Vidmer and Fredric Brown

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013

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      Hall of Mirrors - Vidmer

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Hall of Mirrors, by Fredric Brown

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: Hall of Mirrors

      Author: Fredric Brown

      Illustrator: Vidmer

      Release Date: August 17, 2009 [EBook #29720]

      Language: English

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      Hall of Mirrors

      By FREDRIC BROWN

      It is a tough decision to make—whether to give up your life so you can live it over again!

      For an instant you think it is temporary blindness, this sudden dark that comes in the middle of a bright afternoon.

      It must be blindness, you think; could the sun that was tanning you have gone out instantaneously, leaving you in utter blackness?

      Then the nerves of your body tell you that you are standing, whereas only a second ago you were sitting comfortably, almost reclining, in a canvas chair. In the patio of a friend's house in Beverly Hills. Talking to Barbara, your fiancée. Looking at Barbara—Barbara in a swim suit—her skin golden tan in the brilliant sunshine, beautiful.

      You wore swimming trunks. Now you do not feel them on you; the slight pressure of the elastic waistband is no longer there against your waist. You touch your hands to your hips. You are naked. And standing.

      Whatever has happened to you is more than a change to sudden darkness or to sudden blindness.

      You

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