like light through colored glass
“He remembers it now, sitting in the dark window in the quiet study, waiting for twilight to cease. . . . The copper light has completely gone now; the world hangs in a green suspension in color and texture like light through colored glass.”
—Wiliam Faulkner, Light in August, 1932.
XTT Part 4: Numerals and Punctuation
diffuse in the neutral grayness
“It is just dawn, daylight: that gray and lonely suspension filled with the peaceful and tentative waking of birds. The air, inbreathed, is like spring water. He breathes deep and slow, feeling with each breath himself diffuse in the neutral grayness, becoming one with loneliness and quiet that has never known fury or despair.”
—Wiliam Faulkner, Light in August, 1932.
‘Lemon cocoanut chocolate’
“He did not see the waitress until the two overlarge hands appeared upon the counter opposite him and into sight. He could see the figured pattern of her dress and the bib of an apron and the two bigknuckled hands lying on the edge of the counter as completely immobile as if they were something she had fetched in from the kitchen. ‘Coffee and pie,’ he said.
Her voice sounded downcast, quite empty. ‘Lemon cocoanut chocolate.’
In proportion to the height from which her voice came, the hands could not be her hands at all. ‘Yes,’ Joe said.
The hands did not move. The voice did not move. ‘Lemon cocoanut chocolate. Which kind.’”
—Wiliam Faulkner, Light in August, 1932.
The Family Circus
Super Happy
“Try these new names on for size:
Super Happy (yellow), Fun in the Sun (orange), Giving Tree (green),
Bear Hug (brown), Awesome (dusty pink), Happy Ever After (blue), Famous
(hot pink) and Best Friends (purple).”
—Paul Walsh, Crayola marks 64-count box’s 50th birthday with new colors, StarTribune.com, April 10, 2008.
Yes, the 64-count box of Crayola crayons was introduced just 50 years ago. Not Crayola crayons themselves, which are about twice that age, but the BIG BOX, the one with the build-in sharpener. If bigger is better, the BIG BOX was best! But the problem with the big box, as I recall, was getting all the crayons and crayon pieces back into the box. I mean . . . forget it! Nevertheless, the big box was, and is, big news in the color community.
Here’s another report, the announcement from Crayola, and in interesting list of Crayola color names through the ages from Wikipedia. (Thanks Mom!)
Then the copper faded into lilac
“So he lay on the cot, smoking, waiting for sunset. Through the open door he watched the sun slant and lengthen and turn copper. Then the copper faded into lilac, into the fading lilac of full dusk. He could hear the frogs then, and fireflies began to drift across the open frame of the door, growing brighter as the dusk faded. Then he rose.”
—Wiliam Faulkner, Light in August, 1932.
the yellow day
“It seemed to him that he could see the yellow day opeining peacefully on before him, like a corridor, an arras, into a still chiaroscuro without urgency. It seemed to him that as the sat there the yellow day contemplated him drowsily, like a prone and somnolent yellow cat.”
—Wiliam Faulkner, Light in August, 1932.
The red and unhurried miles
“The wagon goes on, slow, timeless. The red and unhurried miles unroll beneath the steady feet of the mules, beneath the creaking and clanking wheels. The sun stands now high overhead; the shadow of the sunbonnet now falls across her lap. She looks up at the sun. ‘I reckon it’s time to eat,’ she says.”
—Wiliam Faulkner, Light in August, 1932.
Color Worqx
Attention current color students and color enthusiasts generally: I have just been alerted to an excellent color design resource, the brainchild and labor of love of web designer Janet Lynn Ford, and it goes by the name of Color Worqx. It’s a full-semester color course on a website, without those pesky projects, deadlines and critiques.
Attention current students: Check out the information on color combinations, and don’t miss the color scheme generator. (Thank you Mallory Guidroz!)