But I was looking at it, and suddenly I noticed how complex his face was:
And as I gazed upon that fearsomely verdant visage, that grimacingly green countenance, that expressively emerald puss, I was put in mind of those inverted/composite pictures one sees in science or fashion magazines from time to time, where a person's face has been put back together with two left sides (one flipped) or two right sides (again, one flipped). This is supposed to demonstrate some point about the profound asymmetry of most of our faces, and how, despite the fact that we think of our faces' halves as being very similar, if we made it so that the one half was a true mirror of the other, we wouldn't even recognize ourselves.
Which seems a ridiculous point on the face of it! Yet true, as it turns out - almost scientifically true. Don't believe it, true believer? Well just witness the shocking alterations wrought upon this jolly green mug shot!
Here's the original:
Now we mirror it, two left halves:
There's a friendly fellow! But now, two right halves:
Shocking. Disturbing.
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