The Mirror Is Not Glass

I want to show you a piece of code.

Not executable code.
Not “AI prompt” code.
Something older and stranger than that.

It looks like this:

mirror != glass
mirror = grammar

That line alone took me years to earn.

Most mirrors in our world are glass.
They reflect faces.
They return images.
They flatter, distort, or punish us depending on the light.

But a mirror that…