6.21b

Have you ever had enough time to depersonalize a person's face? Sometimes, with some people, it can take hours. How much of a person are they? How often do they use their face? Do you know them well? Is there not much material to work with?
With other people, at other times, the effect is immediate. I see the hard edge of her lip, where frenum meets vermilion, as though the two angles met and have never quite agreed after that. I see the roundness of glasses not as a style choice but only as geometry. I see, but of course, I don't.
I'm not looking at her; she's not there yet. I have to put her back together from my face-blindness so I have a friend again to meet.