Henry Ernest Dudeney/Puzzles and Curious Problems/327 - Two Paradoxes

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 * Two Paradoxes
 * $(1): \quad$ Imagine a man going to the North Pole.
 * The points of the compass are, as everyone knows:


 * $\begin{array} {ccc}

& \text N & \\ \text W & & \text E \\ & \text S & \\ \end{array}$


 * He reaches the pole and, having passed over it, must turn about to look North.
 * East is now on his left-hand side, West on his right-hand side, and the points of the compass therefore:


 * $\begin{array} {ccc}

& \text N & \\ \text E & & \text W \\ & \text S & \\ \end{array}$


 * which is absurd.
 * What is the explanation?


 * $(2): \quad$ When you look in the mirror, you are turned right round, so that right is left and left is right,
 * and yet top is not bottom and bottom is not top.
 * If it reverses sideways, why does it not reverse lengthways?
 * Why are you not shown standing on your head?