Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Surface 1 Superficially George looked on glass. I don’t know if he saw heaven. 2 Perhaps he saw himself? But that’s another story – a different surface altogether showed a lovely face. 3 I see you on the surface. My skin is where I start and where you meet the world – a membrane keeps my inside in and all the outside out. 4 It’s just psoriasis. A profusion of the epidermal layer – excessive and exuberant skin cell reproduction if you want to put it simply. Whether it’s guttate, erythrodermic possibly pustular, even inverse the psoriatic phenomenon declares itself upon the surface 5 where Perseverance searched. And others delve, descend and dig – prospectors poke the diver dives… what lies below the surface? 6 Qin’s massive mausoleum waits to be discovered. 7 Surface for the dry geometer is readily defined – there’s length and breadth, but never depth being two-di