The Astonishing Blue Of Mountain Sky
“Adam’s eyes are a clear blue, the astonishing blue of mountain sky, which has a habit of dripping into the pupils of Kashmiri men. . . .”
—Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children, 1981. (p. 14)
a comma, a word, a sentence, a paragraph, a chapter
“By the time the rains came at the end of June, the foetus was fully formed inside her womb. . . . What had been (at the beginning) no bigger than a full stop had expanded into a comma, a word, a sentence, a paragraph, a chapter; now it was bursting into more complex developments, becoming, one might say, a book—perhaps an encyclopedia—even a whole language . . .”
Ted Lewis & His Band
Dip Your Brush in the Sunshine
“Life is a Canvas on which we all paint
And you will find beauty,
Raspberry Beret
Autumn Leaves
Chet Baker
National Punctuation Day
September 24th was National Punctuation Day. Who knew? And what . . . no interrobang‽
Line and colour
—Charles Baudelaire, ‘The LIfe and Word of Eugene Delacroix’, The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays, translated by Jonathan Mayne, 1964.
the phosphorescence of decay
“Edgar Poe loves to set his figures in action against greenish or purplish backgrounds, in which we can glimpse the phosphorescence of decay and sniff the coming storm. . . . Space is extended by opium, which also adds a magical accent to every tint, a more meaningful resonance to every sound. Sometimes magnificent vistas, flooded with colour and light, open out suddenly in the midst of his landscapes, in whose depths loom Oriental cities and fantastic edifices, vaporized by the distance over which the sun pours its showers of golden rain.”