Alain Robbe-Grillet's "Dressmaker's Dummy"
from Snapshots
"[W]e are shown a coffeepot, a four-legged table, a waxed tablecloth, a mannequi and, crucially, a large rectangular mirror that reflects the room's objects--which include a mirror-fronted wardrobe that in turn redoubles everything. Thus we are made to navigate a set of duplications, modifications, and distortions that are at once almost impossibly complex and utterly accurate: this is how rooms actually look to an observer, how their angles, surfaces and sightlines impose themselves on his or her perception. No other action takes place in the piece"