From: jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid

On Sat, 21 Jun 2014 00:11:34 -0700 (PDT), William Vetter
 wrote:

> And she hates yellow.  She wishes there was absolutely nothing yellow in th=
> e entire world.  "Yellow is perfect for a nursery because it can go either =
> way--boy or girl, yellow," the tennis guy's wife had said.  Screw her, impr=
> egnate her, paint her life yellow.
>
> Did you understand that?

She has been advised to paint the nursery a color she dislikes, and
that has set off an exaggerated repugnance for the color and made it
into a symbol for everything she hates and can't escape.

Tangent:

When I was a Junior in college, I was assigned a trendy new dorm room
decorated in "deep yellow", which was in fact bright orange:
orange-print curtains, red-orange plastic chairs, orange bedspreads .
. . To this day, orange looks ugly to me.

Doesn't stop me from wearing a "taxicab"-color shirt when I ride my
diamond-frame.  But I'm looking for safety-yellow linen to make the
next one.

And on a total tangent:  why is it that when yellow is the only color
that can be seen through heavy rain, umbrellas come in every color
*except* yellow?


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