In the original version of The Mirror of Simple Annihilated Souls (1) each of the main text pages had a Flash animation in the far left column.  Here, I have reproduced a screen shot of one moment of the animation for The Mirror of Obsolescence. The Flash graphic was designed to suggest associations and connections with the controlling idea of that theme.  Also, names of one or more of the Threaded Voices appeared on the screen in the course of the animation.  In this Flash animation, you would have seen a transparent graphic of a warehouse of old computers stacked on shelves.  The system units and screen are in shapes we recognize from the '80's and '90's - old Apple units, Kaypro machines, Radio Shack components, etc. The warehouse scene fades and darkens to reveal the moving mirror.  The old computers are rendered in shades of greys, black, and white; the mirror moving behind is in beige, gold, and white.  The old computers and the shifting mirror evoke the sense of obsolescence and the materiality of this accumulation of near-junk.  The outdated system units echo the reference to UNIVAC in another Flash panel and the Visicalc software in yet another Flash graphic.  Identification is in brick red.

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