he currently found himself fascinated to watch the way the various parts of chins face moved when the architect spoke : although knowing that the asian man was now somewhere in late middle age , such was the boyishness of his appearance - chiefly as a result of the administrations of the surgeons scalpel , as opposed to any advantageous fluke of nature - his complexion clear of blemishes , the skin tautened unnaturally across the well-defined bones beneath , the forehead botoxed to a featureless paralysis , any previous evidence of crows feet at the corners of the eyes and mouth smoothed away , the dermis sculptured into an expressionless mask , which prevented any inner emotions being externally revealed , leaving the irises of the eyes alone to be the only mirror to the mans feelings , and which , in an apparent attempt to counter the rigidity of the rest of his visage , perpetually danced around the polished white ballroom of the sclera of his eyes , with constant restless energy .