Periodic Table of Typefaces
No hands or hues were exempt
“WE WILL DYE THE HANDS OF EACH CITIZEN WITH A DIFFERENT COLOR, he said. AND WILL THIS WAY DISCOVER WHO HAS BEEN PUTTING THEIRS BEHIND HERZOG’S COUNTER.
Lippa R’s were dyed blood red. Pelsa G’s the light green of her eyes. Mica P’s a subtle purple, like the silver of sky above the Radziwell Forest’s tree line when the sun set for the third Shabbos of that November. No hands or hues were exempt. To be fair, even Herzog J’s were dyed, the pink of a particular Troides helena butterfly that happened to have died on the desk of Dickie D, the chemist who invented the chemical that couldn’t be washed off, but would leave smears on whatever the dyed hands touched.”
—Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated, 2002.
I know that they are the Jewish colors
“The station was not ordinary, because there were blue and yellow papers from the ceiling. They were there for the first birthday of the new constitution. This did not make me so proud, but I was appeased that the hero should view them when disembarking the train from Prague. He would obtain an excellent picture of our country. Perhaps he would think that the yellow and blue papers were for him, because I know that they are the Jewish colors.”
—Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated, 2002.
extravagance indeed
“A lantern on a moonlit night is extravagance indeed, but Seijuro far surpassed this by burning lights during the very brightness of the noonday sun.”
—Ihara Saikaku, The Life of an Amorous Woman, 1692.
Spanish Town Mardi Gras
Spanish Town Second Line
I’m Hypnotizing You
Sebastiane de Derek Jarman
I’m not gay, but if I was, this would be very sexy for me.