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In some circumstances, however, the presence of an exotropia (XT) was viewed positively. From the Middle Ages to the present, it has been common for artistic representations of Christ to depict him with an XT (Fig. 6.1). This metaphorically represents a wide or panoramic view. They even chose an actor with an XT to play Christ in the movie Jesus Christ Superstar. Although I am unable to reproduce images from the movie’s promotional material (it is copyright protected), you can easily see it for yourself by doing a Web search for images of Ted Neely in Jesus Christ Superstar.

The boy had what people termed a traveling eye. As he looked directly at someone, his left eye would often follow some extraneous moving object that might be just to the side … Then the eye would return to the person in front of the boy … It was a cruel thing God had done … people in that part of Virginia thought a traveling eye a sign of a dishonest or inattentive man.

—Edward P. Jones, The Known World

Divergent strabismus creates the impression of suffering together with absent mindedness

—Friedrich Dieffenbach

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Kushner, B.J. (2017). Exotropia. In: Strabismus. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63019-9_6

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