in terms of a cyclops: it's one extreme or another... a cyclops can never be cross-eyed, it can never be blurry for him - even when the tip-of-the-nose is just that, having two eyes is enough to see two sides of an argument with the precision of aquatic optics - blurry today, blurry tomorrow - nibble the left, nibble the right... then centralised: or Newtonian - the unlearning of gravity for the purpose of learning selective magnetism and a stitched-up smile.