When you go to a movie or play or concert, do you consistently prefer to sit on one side of the theater, as though one side more reliably allowed passage into the realm of fantasy, while the other encouraged vigilant real-time monitoring of the theater itself? Why is this? (And in view of the fact that the seat a 1L chooses at the beginning of the term becomes his for the rest of the term, should he prefer a leftward or a rightward view of the lecture hall?) With reference to nothing but the image of the painting on the screen, one can tell immediately if the slide is backwards in the carousel. Why is this? (And in view of our biases toward particular visual asymmetries, their fittedness to the different ways the halves of our divided brains present the world, does perfect symmetry somehow represent a radical imbalance of our natural forces of cognition?)