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Thanks to those who've replied so far. I'll prepare a
summary when the replies have ceased. To me, the question
seemed worth asking because of the elapsed time since the
last round of discussion, but maybe I overestimated that,
um, elapsation.
And maybe, though I will go through with it and summarize,
I asked the wrong question. The answers I'm receiving
are convincing me that the phenomenon I need to
describe might be seen less as a case of control than as
a case of mirroring. Likely I could avoid the term "slave"
by using the term "mirror." But what is the name of the
original object that a mirror mirrors? Is there an accepted
term for that? Altavista does not give me a lot of hits for
"mirroree."
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Mark L. Levinson - markl -at- gilian -dot- com - Herzlia, Israel
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