Moses is a mysterious man about whom no one knows much. He is known as The Mirror Man because the profession from which he makes a living is mirror making. However, he is so much more than that. He "rents" an attic room in a house, and the terms of this lease always brought happy smiles and laughter to all who heard them. Moses had no money to pay rent. At the time of the rental negotiations, he said, "Everyone gives what he has. I will give you stories!" He then said that he was going to tell a story right then and there, as his security deposit

Using storytelling as a device, The Mirror Man brings a town of people together as a story within a story. He demonstrates that the unknown can be known and the possibility of experiencing higher dimensions of consciousness and wisdom happily exist.

The stories The Mirror Man tells are hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of years old. They have survived in the consciousnesses of schooled people as well as illiterate people because they are about the human condition and because we all have something in common with what these stories impart.

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THE MIRROR MAN

By David Juniman

iUniverse, Inc.

Copyright � 2010 David Juniman
All right reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-4502-1849-8

PREFACE..........................................................................ixTHE POT AND THE BABY.............................................................3THE WOODSMAN AND THE BEAR........................................................7THE HUMP OF THE HUNCHBACK........................................................9THE DREAM........................................................................15THE SADDLE.......................................................................19THE DEATH OF THE VALIANT.........................................................23THE HAIR (A bad joke)............................................................25DON'T PUSH IT!...................................................................27BY THE SWEAT OF YOUR FOREHEAD....................................................35TO MAKE A WRONG MOVE IS A MISTAKE, TO MAKE IT AGAIN IS A SIN.....................41I AM GOING TO BE LIKE YOU, DAD...................................................45MY NOSE IS CAUGHT!...............................................................49APOLOGY WORSE THAN THE OFFENSE...................................................51MR. INAPPROPRIATE................................................................53THE MESSAGE OF THE TOMBSTONE.....................................................67DESSERT PREPARED IN THIRTY YEARS.................................................73THE KING AND THE NOSE............................................................81DEATH IS RIDICULOUS..............................................................85EPILOGUE.........................................................................91

Chapter One

THE MIRROR MAN

It was quiet and very dark. My father and I chitchatted with a few friends we had invited to dinner. We had just finished dinner and were having coffee. In the small suburb in which we lived, winter nights always felt a lot longer than they were. Tonight was no exception.

Suddenly a terrible scream or screech or a mixture of both engulfed the house. One might think anyone hearing such a thing would run as far away as possible, but the reactions of my father and me were very different from those of our guests. Our guests sat on the edges of their chairs, ready to take off because they had never heard the scream before. We, on the other hand, were very calm and ready to explain the scream, which periodically but infrequently occurred.

Finally my father explained, "It is Moses. It is Moses. Do not be alarmed. He is having an insanity attack." Unfortunately, that explanation was not any less worrisome to our guests than the event itself.

Moses was a mysterious man about whom no one knew much. He "rented" an attic room in our house, and the terms of his lease always brought happy smiles and laughter to all who heard them. Moses had no money to pay rent. At the time of our rental negotiations, he said, "Everyone gives what he has. I will give you stories!" He then said he would tell us a story right then and there as a security deposit.

THE POT AND THE BABY

A man went to his next-door neighbor and said, "I am having a few guests to dinner tomorrow night, but I do not have a large enough pot to cook in. May I borrow one from you for a couple of days?"

The neighbor gave his friend a pot that was not too old and still in good shape, and everyone was happy. A few days later the borrower came back with the pot and told his friend, "Thank you very much. I do not know what I would have done without your help." However, there was a small pot inside the big one.

"What is this? I did not give you the small pot," the neighbor said.

"Oh, I forgot to tell you; the pot had a baby. Since the big pot was yours, the baby is yours as well."

The owner of the pot was very happy with the gain. A few days later when the man returned to borrow another pot for another party, the neighbor gave him the biggest and the best pot he had.

Days and weeks went by, and the man had not returned the pot. The owner of the pot politely approached the man and said, "You forgot to return the pot."

The borrower replied, "The pot died!"

"What are you talking about? Pots do not die," said the lender.

The borrower smiled and replied, "How come you believe a pot can have a baby, but you do not believe pots can die?"

My father and I had instantly accepted the story as a security deposit.

Hardly anyone referred to Moses by his name; he was known as the Mirror Man. That is because the profession from which he made a living was mirror making. He had a small workshop in a rough section of the city where he made mirrors of various sizes and shapes when commissioned to do so. He made very few mirrors, and he had to be convinced to accept an order on the basis that the mirror was really needed. He once said his business slogan was, "The customer is always wrong!" That was so because, he explained, "the customer does not know anything about the skills involved in mirror making. It is the artisan who is the expert."

Moses worked very few hours, and when he did work, he preferred to work alone. It was said that once, when he used to have help, he let his apprentice install a mirror in someone's bathroom. Moses told his apprentice not to tighten the screws on the mirror too much while attaching it to the wall. When the boy tightened the screws too much anyway, the mirror cracked. Moses grabbed him by the neck, dunked him in a bathtub full of water, and held him there for a while. Later Moses insisted he was not angry; he had just been trying to enhance the apprentice's understanding. However, Moses said if he had to do it again, he would dunk the apprentice before the mirror cracked, not after. He said it was totally useless to do it after the mirror was already broken.

By now our guests' fear of what was happening had turned to curiosity. They wanted to know if they could go upstairs and meet the Mirror Man, or would he come down to meet them? If not, could they meet him by ordering a mirror?

The answer to all of those questions was a big fat no. Mirror Man could not be imposed upon because he believed only machines respond to outside stimuli. A human being's actions should be self-initiated from inside; therefore, he made sure everything he did was an answer to his own motivations and not a response to a summoning from the outside.

He once told me, "If you push a certain key on a typewriter, you get a certain letter, but if you do the same to a human being, you might or might not get a response at all. A human being can change the whole world by simply changing himself."

My dinner guests, while politely listening to all this, made it abundantly clear that they would prefer to hear stories from the Mirror Man rather than his philosophies. So I figured while waiting to find out if he was going to come down from his attic room this particular night, why could I not tell them a few of his stories?

THE WOODSMAN AND THE BEAR

A man who made his living cutting wood in the wilderness and selling it to city dwellers for firewood came across a big bear that appeared to be very sick and in great pain. He carefully approached the bear and examined him. It appeared the bear had stepped on a thorn. Unable to pull out the thorn on his own, the bear had developed an abscess and a fever and was very sick.

Despite his fear, the woodsman...

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