Then Dave said,
>Well, yes, come to speak of it, it is. We have things like:
> >out of the blue cerulean onto ochre bricks
> >in the clear wonder of one autumn day
>which are awful, Barbara Cartland would have been embarrassed by lines like
>those. At the same time there's some wonderful stuff in it,
Yeah, "cerulean" in fact means dark blue: caeruleus is Latin for dark blue.
And speaking as someone who's never experienced an opaque day, I'd be
curious to know what a day that wasn't clear would look like.
But remember the figure PLEONASM: the use of superfluous words to remind us
of certain descriptors inherent in the phrase or to enrich a thought.
Gabe
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