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two soft cameras that have never once stopped lying to your brain about reality
means the pair of organs in your head that detect light and let you see, sitting in their sockets above the nose
from From Old English ēage, traced back to the Proto-Germanic *augô (a cousin of German Auge and Dutch oog), and ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *okw-, meaning 'to see' — the same ancient root that surfaces in Latin oculus (giving us 'ocular') and Greek ōps. The plural 'eyes' replaced the older 'eyen,' which lingered in poetry long after everyday speech had moved on.
- blind spot
- each eye has a hole your brain edits out
- upside down
- images hit your retina inverted; brain flips them
- muscle marathon
- eye muscles are your body's fastest, most active
- unique iris
- more identifiable than fingerprints
- see backward
- light takes time, so you view the past
mona lisa's eyes — da vinci's 1503 painting, most analyzed gaze in art history
david bowie's heterochromia — one blue, one brown-green iris, lifelong trademark from 1947
the eyes of ra — ancient egyptian myth, sun god's eyes as separate divine entities