That's a fascinating subject. As humans, we tend to find symmetry in faces appealing. In photography, rules were created in accordance to what most people find appealing in a scene. That includes everything you mentioned - symmetry, geometry, color combination, as well as light. Joseph Chilton Pearce (The Crack In The Cosmic Egg, Exploring The Crack In The Cosmic Egg, The Magical Child) studied the brain, consciousness, and culture extensively and thought it is possible that the old mammalian brain contained a hologram of the earth. His hypothesis is that we are born with knowledge of the earth. It seems to me that that would include what we see and experience. It's been a long time since I've read Pearce and I'm sure I'm doing a poor job of relating his ideas. I would encourage anyone to read his work.

I knew a guy that was a Honda motorcycle distributor. He had a falling out with them so he could no longer display his huge 30 foot Honda sign, so he swapped two letters and became a "Hando" dealer.

"Descent Into Newark" sounds like the title of a story about an unfortunate person.