FORKNI-L
Digest - 9 Oct 2008 to 10 Oct 2008 (#2008-226)
Fri, 10 Oct 2008
There are 3 messages totalling 87 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. Mirrors (3)
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Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:02:33 -0400
From: Emily Lacey <laceyem@h.......>
Subject: Re: Mirrors
> Following this logic, vampires cannot be photographed---because
> photographic film uses silver in the emulsion. This holds true in
> early photography as well as today. (In the hospital where I worked in
> the 80s and 90s, x-rays were recycled to reclaim the silver on the
> films.)
So, if they couldn't be photographed because of the silver, why were
the enforcers concerned about when LaCroix (?) was photographed during
the war feeding on the fallen men? He wouldn't be in the picture...
Is it that it would look odd to see someone propped up on nothing and with
blood starting to trickle down their throat?
Emily Lacey
laceyem@h.......
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Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 23:26:37 -0700
From: Nancy Kaminski <nancykam@c.......>
Subject: Re: Mirrors
> -----Original Message-----
> On Behalf Of Emily Lacey
> So, if they couldn't be photographed because of the silver, why
> were the enforcers concerned about when LaCroix (?) was
> photographed during the war feeding on the fallen men? He wouldn't
> be in the picture...
No, I meant that IF our vampires couldn't be seen in mirrors, it was
because of the traditional reason---that silver rejects the evil
vampire. IF that were true, then they couldn't be photographed.
But our vampires CAN be seen in a mirror, and thus the photography
myth is not true---in this particular universe.
Nancy Kaminski
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Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 22:43:21 -0700
From: Kristen Fife <fenix23fyre@y.......>
Subject: Re: Mirrors
In the general vampire mythos, sometimes vampires are portrayed, like
werewolves, as being allergic to silver, so it could have something
to do with the silver backing used in making mirrors. Please note
this is just a guess. In the process of writing my novel (the long,
ongoing, process ;) I've been steeping myself in vampire literature
and research regarding the whole sujbect of vampire lore. I'm just
such a stickler for accurate world building :)
>
> -Just out of interest, does anybody know if the rationale
> for vamps not -having reflections was because they "had no
> soul"? P.N. Elrod theorizes, in one of her Jack Fleming stories,
> that since they have died once, vampires are slightly
> out-of-phase with present time. So, they cannot reflect in
> mirrors, which are static within present time. Jack,
> unlike Nick, definitely believes he has a soul, tarnished
> though it may be.
>
>
>
> Most people have minds like concrete: mixed up or
> permanently set.
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End of FORKNI-L Digest - 9 Oct 2008 to 10 Oct 2008 (#2008-226)
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