In this paper I propose to prolong the series of questions I addressed concerning reflection, in both senses of the term, in the mirror. I offer a slight variation in concentrating on the reflecting powers of a water mirror and the reflections it sends back to a receptive subject. Thus, I can explore the possible links between the visual and the short story, examining the existence of a structural link between the two as posited by Valerie Shaw. By so doing, the word/image relationship (the image as generator of fiction… or silence) is viewed from a new angle. The questions being: what type of discourse is thus activated? To what extent does the short story, particularly one of Virginia Woolf's stories –“The Fascination of the Pool“– offer another approach to the word/image relationship
