Friday, February 20, 2015

The Limitations of Language

Google the names for blue and you will find these, among many others:

Air Force blue
Azure
Baby blue
Blue-gray
Cambridge blue
Carolina blue
Cerulean
Cobalt blue
Columbia blue
Cornflower blue
Cyan
Denim
Iris
Light blue
Midnight blue
Navy blue
Palatine blue
Periwinkle
Persian blue
Phthalo blue
Powder blue
Prussian blue
Royal blue
Sapphire
Sky blue
Teal
Tiffany blue
True blue
Turquoise
Ultramarine
Violet-blue

My own family's paint business used to produce a fan deck, about which I have previously written, and in it there are pages and pages of blues.

But here's the thing: none of them, and I mean none of them, come close to what I witnessed this evening in Sewanee: no name can capture the beauty of night's slow descent.



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