The Mirror may refer to:
The Mirror is a 1978 horror novel by Marlys Millhiser about unwilling time-travel involving an evil antique mirror with unclear glass.
Shay Garrett's story, 1978 (and through time-travel, 1900–1924)
In 1978, 20-year-old Shay Garrett is preparing for her upcoming wedding to Marek Weir. Her mother, Rachael (Maddon) Garrett has a pre-wedding talk with her advising her to pull-out as she does not love Marek. Her father Jerry tells her he has unwrapped the mirror that fascinated her much and placed it in her bedroom. At that time, Shay's 98-year-old grandmother Bran is brought into the living-room in a wheelchair—when she hears Jerry's declaration, she grabs Shay's wrist and utters a very-surprised "mirror."
Shay goes into her bedroom and sees the mirror Jerry mentioned—an antique with claw-like feet and which is marred by a crack—and remembers that it only "fascinated" her due to being quite hideous. As Shay looks at herself in her wedding-veil (which had been passed down from Bran to Rachel to herself), giggling at the strange reflection and wondering what was told to Bran, she hears a sharp exclamation of "no" and discovers its source to be Bran—who then utters the name "Corbin" after which the room spins and a vortex grabs Shay.
Der Spiegel (German pronunciation: [deːɐ ˈʃpiːɡəl], lit. "The Mirror") is a German weekly news magazine published in Hamburg. It is one of Europe's largest publications of its kind, with a weekly circulation of 840,000.
It was founded in 1947 by John Seymour Chaloner, a British army officer, and Rudolf Augstein, a former Wehrmacht radio operator who was recognized in 2000 by the International Press Institute as one of the fifty World Press Freedom Heroes.Spiegel Online, the online sibling of Der Spiegel, was launched in 1994 with an independent editorial staff. Typically, the magazine has a content to advertising ratio of 2:1.
Der Spiegel is known in German-speaking countries mostly for its investigative journalism. It has played a key role in uncovering many political scandals such as the Spiegel scandal in 1962 and the Flick affair in the 1980s. According to The Economist, Der Spiegel is one of continental Europe's most influential magazines.
The first edition of Der Spiegel was published in Hanover on Saturday, 4 January 1947. Its release was initiated and sponsored by the British occupational administration and preceded by a magazine titled, Diese Woche (meaning This Week in English), which had first been published in November 1946. After disagreements with the British, the magazine was handed over to Rudolf Augstein as chief editor, and was renamed Der Spiegel. From the first edition in January 1947, Augstein held the position of editor-in-chief, which he retained until his death on 7 November 2002.
Sometimes When you're alone somewhere
When Depression put it's heavy hands on you
When you are stranger to yourself out here
Then hope that mirror can tell you what to do
[chorus:]
Into the Mirror
You'll trace yourself
'till all is lost, all is done
The man inside is not me
It is the shadow of humanity
When all is lost, is lost...
There is none of this
When you stop to take a look at the mirror
There is a feeling deep inside you
That something is going to swallow your personality
Which is trapped inside for all eternity
The monster that is searching for your soul
Lives in the Mirror and awaits your final look
At the glass area that hides so many great Secrets
When you can read yourself, like an open book
All this time I wonder if I'm talking to myself
Or is it really someone there when I look at
My own face and body and feel it's really me
Yes, but there's no soul, just Shadow of Man
[repeat chorus]
I will never understand myself
'cause it's not really me that stands there
And stare in my reflection of hidden humanity
Or is it maybe me who is trapped, on the other side...