Eyes get old before the body. Australian researchers are trying to solve the problem. Eyes have the upper hand though attached to the body’s shoulder. They know the history they bring to every syllable heard or spoken, in simple present or present continuous. From time to time the eyes freeze in the subjunctive: If I could tell you whether he kissed Marie Onji behind the louvered doors. If I should bar intimate knowledge or keep it like a matchbook from Spago. Spago, he says, with the sweetest grin as if he’s always in the present, certainly with you. You who would prefer the present perfect and panic in a Hall of Mirrors, twirling faster and faster to blur the split.