20 Tuesday Aug 2019
Posted in white
A later revision amended this to “a certain Poetess”, though this did not make it into the final publication, either, as Owen apparently decided to address his poem to the larger audience of war supporters in general such as the women who handed out white feathers during the conflict to men whom they regarded as cowards for not being at the front.
(Wikipedia, ‘Dulce et Decorum est’)
15 Thursday Aug 2019
Posted in red
Up in the morning, and had some red Herrings to our breakfast while my boot-heel was a-mending; by the same token, the boy left the hole as big as it was before.
(Samuel Pepys, diary, 28 Feb. 1660)
14 Wednesday Aug 2019
He bought a notebook bound in simple but rich brown calf, of the sort that stationers sold to customers who wanted something better than an everyday memorandum book, as a commonplace book of some kind. Its pages were ruled in red at the upper and outer margins.
(Robert Latham, introduction to The Diary of Samuel Pepys: A Selection)
13 Tuesday Aug 2019
Posted in vert
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Elle multiplia les visites au mausolée de Sidi Abderrahmane — c’était le jeudi, car le vendredi était le jour de Dieu. De ce lieu, je garde confusément le souvenir de tissus de couleur verte, d’un lustre énorme et, mêlés aux odeurs d’encens, d’étouffants parfums de femmes se lamentant, quémandant qui un mari, qui la fertilité, qui l’amour ou la vengeance.
(Kamel Daoud, Meursault, contre-enquête, 3)
12 Monday Aug 2019
Posted in rutilant
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Kaboul et l’appareil de sécurité sont aux mains des Tadjiks, qui se pavanent à bord de rutilants véhicules 4 × 4, entourés d’une pléthore de gardes du corps pour les plus importants d’entre eux.
(Ariane Quentier, Afghanistan : au cœur du chaos, 3)
11 Sunday Aug 2019
Posted in blue
Every memory or relic of primitive navigation shows it a feeling-out for the high, conspicuous blue cloud, which, when you have fixed it once above the horizon, stands permanent and constant, turning at last into no cloud, but an evidence of human things after the emptiness of the sea.
(Hilaire Belloc, The Old Road)
09 Friday Aug 2019
Posted in pink, Uncategorized
Frustrated by the progressive psychedelic band’s incongruously laddy crowds, the Manchester synth-pop duo performed the rest of their dates against a hot pink projection that read: “END RAPE CULTURE.”
(Laura Snapes, ‘Virginia Wing: Ecstatic Arrow Album Review’, Pitchfork, 19 June 2019)
01 Thursday Aug 2019
C’est le petit matin, nous nous apprêtons à partir, M’ma et moi, elle tient à la main un petit sac de couleur rouge, elle nous fixe de loin, je vois ses lèvres et ses immense prunelles noires qui semblent vouloir nous demander quelque chose.
(Kamel Daoud, Meursault, contre-enquête, 2)
26 Friday Jul 2019
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Letterboxes were red, bearing the royal cipher VR or EviiR; now painted green, some of these older boxes may still be found here and there in Dublin.
(Robert Nicholson, The Ulysses Guide, Introduction to the 2002 edition)
26 Friday Jul 2019
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—He was raving all night about a black panther, Stephen said. Where is his guncase?
—A woful lunatic, Mulligan said. Were you in a funk?
—I was, Stephen said with energy and growing fear. Out here in the dark with a man I don’t know raving and moaning to himself about shooting a black panther. You saved men from drowning. I’m not a hero, however. If he stays on here I am off.
(Ulysses, 1)
