There are proteins that are theirs alone. Emotional tears, the ones wrung from inner pain and the recognition of tragedy, have even a different chemical composition. A colourless cocktail of water, mucin, urea, proteins, fats, enzymes, and sugars is secreted by the gland and overflows the tear ducts, simultaneously cleaning dust from the conjunctiva and preventing the cornea from drying out.Д«ut there are tears and then there are tears. Nerve impulses run back and forth on the opthalmic division of the trigeminal cranial nerve.

The parasympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system activates the lacrimal gland. We know the brute mechanism of these watery effusions. 'When listening to music we are often surprised,' William James, the American pragmatist and psychologist, once said, 'at the cutaneous shiver which like a sudden wave flows over us, and at the heart swelling and lacrymal effusion that unexpectedly catches us at intervals.' The song never affected me like that before or since. Eyes welling up, tears running down my cheeks. Big chunky black headphones on, listening to 'Perfect Day' by Lou Reed on one of the in-store 'listening posts'. Standing in the middle of Virgin Megastores on Western Road in Brighton.

Chopin music making people violet