Gary Poster, with essential assists from Galyn Norwood, Phiroon Phihakendr, Jose Quijada, Pavandeep Kalra. When I was a child the blade slot fascinated me.
Children have a highly developed sense of metaphysics.
The slot seemed a tear in time, as if the blade that had just shaved my father, nicking his jawline, had for punishment been exiled to another dimension. That bourne from which no traveler returns. The wafer-thin blue blade was condemned to slide out of this world and to turn slowly in the black space that began on the far side of the inside of the mirror. I saw such a slot yesterday, unused for years, I suppose. The blades now rusting in the depository drew more blood in their time than the guillotine.