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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
funhouse mirror en · NOUN
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A type of distorting mirror with strong distortion effect used for amusement in funhouses and carnivals, especially in a hall of mirrors.
In this chapter I want to offer a suggestion that in any other field would be stunningly obvious, boring even, but in the funhouse mirror of intellectual property appears revolutionary.
2008, James Boyle, The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind, Yale University Press:For while most comics have designated entry points into the story in the form of arcs, Homestuck is one elaborate, self-referencing inside joke collapsed inside its own funhouse mirror reflection.
2015 February 24, Lilian Min, “How the Internet Invented a New Kind of Storytelling”, in The Atlantic:
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