The Features On A Face

The features on a face continues to thrill me even after I know a person well, and see this person every day. It's quite different with objects, even with a work of art, a fine drawing for instance. If I look at a painting too often, it loses all its appeal, and I begin not to notice it, even if it's the beautiful painting, or the finely patterned shawl, or a Ming chair. There is something deeply fascinating about beautiful features on a face: The slant of an eye, the curve of a puffy upper lip, a nose that starts at the brow like the prow of a ship, ears delicately carved, vigorous and stormy or faint and barely-there eyebrows all fascinate me endlessly.
Alas, an ugly face frightens me, and seems a kind of impoliteness.