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A broken whole that still insists on showing you something true.
means A jagged piece of broken mirror that still reflects, often used to mean a small fragment that captures or reveals a part of a larger truth.
from A plain compound of two old words doing exactly what they say. "Mirror" comes through Old French mireor from Latin mirari, "to wonder at, to look in awe" — the same root that gives us "miracle" and "admire," reminding us a mirror was once a thing of marvel. "Shard" is far blunter, from Old English sceard, "a fragment, a notch, a thing cut off," a cousin of "shear" — anything broken into a sharp edge. Put together: a fragment of wonder, the marvel snapped into pieces that still cut and still gleam.
- sharp edge
- Cut glass holds an edge sharper than steel
- survival tool
- Reflects sunlight to signal rescuers miles away
- folklore tax
- Each shard supposedly owes seven years bad luck
- old fire
- Polished obsidian shards were humanity's first mirrors
- fracture math
- Each piece reflects a complete image, never partial
black mirror — british anthology tv series (2011-2019) where each episode explores dystopian technology themes
mirror shard zelda — quest item in the legend of zelda: twilight princess (2006) needed to restore the mirror of twilight