Archive:Dear Alf 08/q11/answer

Alf: You are, of course, entitled to your opinion. Your obvious lack of training in the studies of anatomy and simple common sense serves to explain your comments. Abe's eye sockets are of the rotator cup variety, which allow him to swivel his eyes in virtually any direction, much like a chameleon. If you saw him ‘staring into space’, it may have simply been that he felt your gaze and chose to ignore you by focusing on a distant object.