Friday, November 29, 2013

The Science of Sparkle

Eyes will always reflect light as long as there is light to be seen.

The shapes of the light are distorted by the spherical shape of the eye, bending over at odd angles and producing strange lines and circles and squares atop rich colors of irises. In the eyes of newscasters you can usually count the three lights shining in front of them as they report tragedy and civil unrest, because of the exacting location of these lights, positioned by photographers, in relation to the face of the newscaster.

Just below the top eyelid, with a light shining above it, is a shadow, covering some or all of that reflected light. If the light is coming from below, the shadow will be just above the bottom lid. When the face is relaxed, this shadow is not as pronounced. But when you smile, your eye's surface area gets smaller very suddenly, condensing the liquid originally covering it into a smaller frame. The layer of water covering the eye gets deeper, so that the light that was originally reflected on the eyeball is more pronounced, directly under the darker shadow.

There is more light and more darkness in a smile than any other facial expression.

This is what creates a sparkle. Every eye can have a sparkle, if situated correctly in relation to a light. It's not like only the most beautiful and special of muses are born with constantly sparkling eyes. Hitler's eyes sparkled. They probably twinkled like stars in the light of the moon, the rich, deep color of a Jew's eyes.

No matter how ugly you believe yourself to be, if you sit yourself down just at the right angle beside a window, and if you smile just right, your eyes will sparkle. This is because of the shape of your face when something wondrous happens. Because the corners of your mouth turn up, pushing your face up into your eyes which fight to stay halfway open and produce a great reflection of whatever light there happens to be. And it sparkles.

And if you were to laugh, shoulders shaking head shaking eyes like a facial earthquake, all that liquid on the surface of your eye would spread to the corners in an unrest, like tiny little microscopic ocean waves in a storm, and all that light will scatter, and your eyes would be twinkling. And if you sit there sparkling and twinkling long enough a poet or photographer will inevitably pass by and see that sparkle and remember it and want to see it again.

It is because of this science of the sparkle that absolutely anyone, with enough moisture in their eyes and enough light in the world, can be made beautiful, if only for a moment. The most villainous of souls and lonely of hearts, if made to smile just once, in the right place at the right time, are beautiful.

Why?

Because we like shiny things.

3 comments:

  1. This is a really nice theory! You're so interesting! - The Bestower

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    1. Thank you, Bestower! Unfortunately I have not had carrots in quite some time and may be wasting away and will have no more time to be interesting because I will be dead. #yourmoveobama

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    2. oh my gosh, I just read this today after reading nearly every single one of your posts! I swear this just made my day! - The Bestower

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