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 Permanence. 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 the expanding universe layered over a moving mirror.  The universe is rendered in shades of greys, black, and white; the mirror moving behind is in beige, gold, and shiny white.  The expanding universe and the shifting mirror evoke the sense of change, even within the notion of permanence.  The stars also suggest a metaphorical link with the software, Wordstar, which will be mentioned in the next segment.  Identification is in brick red.

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