"One of the s of Uqbar had stated that mirrors and copulation are abominable, since they both multiply the numbers of man."
— Abomination

January 1, 1970

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Variant translation: For one of those gnostics, the visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.