there are colors that we cannot see
“At each end of the solar spectrum the chemist can detect the presence of what are known as ‘actinic’ rays. They represent colors—integral colors in the composition of light—which we are unable to discern. The human eye is an imperfect instrument; its range is but a few octaves of the real ‘chromatic scale.’ I am not mad; there are colors that we cannot see.
the thousand nameless jewels of Barsoom
“[W]here are the words to describe the glorious colours that are unknown to earthly eyes? Where the mind or imagination that can grasp the gorgeous scintillations of unheard-of rays as they emanate from the thousand nameless jewels of Barsoom?”
I Used to Be Color Blind
ONE MORE CUP OF COFFEE
to the stars above
“Your loyalty is not to me but to the stars above.”
The ’00s
Were they the ’00s or were they the 00’s?
the Pea Green House
“Under her professional name, Pearl Younger, she showed it all nightly at the Pea Green House in Fort Smith, a gorgeous whorehouse celebrated far and wide as The Pride and Joy of the Great American Southwest.”
—Peter Matthiessen, Shadow Country, 2008.
spring colors and new sap
“Pairs of great woodpeckers larger than crows, with flashing white bills and crimson crests afire in the sun, crossed the river in deep bounding flight, and hurtling flocks of small long-tailed parrots, bright green as new leaves in the morning light. The wild things were shining with spring colors and new sap and finally I was, too. I would sink my teeth into this morning land like a fresh peach.”
—Peter Matthiessen, Shadow Country, 2008.
the history of typography
“My claim to fame is that I’m one of the world’s foremost authorities on the history of typography. Unfortunately, that’s also my claim to obscurity.”
—Jeremy Edwards, Rock My Socks Off, 2010.
TYPEOGRAPHY
