In a message dated 4/8/10 9:29:37 PM, [email protected] writes:
> We interpret the forms of the images in a way much closer to reading than > to how > we perceive an actual person walking toward us. > > I don't really disagree with anything you say, but I suggest that even our "impression" of "an actual person walking toward us" is qualified by our experience. The woman married for a wretched time to a brutal football player feels an immediate wariness when confronted with a bulky, athletic new man. I have even known women who shrank back from exceptionally photogenic "handsome" men.
