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It’s a reference to a biblical passage.

1 Corinthians 13:12, "For now we see through a glass, darkly, but then we shall see face to face".

There wasn’t any clear glass back in Paul’s day. Looking through glass meant that your vision was obscured.




It's the "scanner" that I had a problem with. A device to turn printed media into PDFs... but darkly?


The scanner is the surveillance state watching your day to day life.




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