From: djheydt@kithrup.com

In article ,
  wrote:
>On Mon, 27 Aug 2018 12:57:05 GMT, djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J
>Heydt) wrote:
>
>>In article ,
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>Jeremy tasted shadows as an echo flew past, leaving the smell of
>>>bright yellow in its wake.
>>>
>>I consider that the punctuation is just fine.  The guy appears to
>>be experiencing synesthesia.  If it's something else, and if it
>>was forced upon him, that's another matter; but that doesn't
>>affect the correctness of the first sentence.
>
>Thanks!
>
>It's induced synesthesia, a weapon being developed to disorient enemy
>troops.

Oh, ewww.  War is definitely hell.

(Though there's a composer [of music, not SF] who's synesthetic
and takes advantage of it.  His name is Michael Torke and his piece
entitled "Bright Blue Music" is played from time to time on
kdfc.com.

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Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt at gmail dot com
www.kithrup.com/~djheydt/

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