Thanks, Doug. I have googled the Gass 'Blue' book. It looks fascinating. I will seek it out. Seems I have inadvertently strayed in to a can of worms, to mix my metaphors, which is another area on which I see Gass holds opinions.
So my ises got past you, this time it is the are to which you object!
Bill
> On 3 Oct 2013, at 3:51 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> 'are'? Bill
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> you begin. I'd recommend trying to find William Gass's On Being Blue; a book length investigation...
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> Doug
>> On 2013-10-01, at 3:07 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Blue
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>> Nothing blue is mowed.
>> No food is truly blue.
>> which uou object!We reserve blue for sky,
>> jeans and, collectively,
>> pockets of existential pain.
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>> There is no blue in Russia,
>> only words for its shades.
>> Sea is said to be blue
>> but only in the deep
>> and unstably so.
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>> Pure blue is unmixed,
>> falls between violet
>> and green. Males mis
>> -pick green from blue
>> more than females do.
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>> Whole cultures don't share
>> the western blue. Korean,
>> Thai, Japanese, Dakota Sioux,
>> have no separate words
>> for green and blue.
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>> So deep in the Americas
>> and in much of Asia
>> blue means go
>> and - slap my stanza
>> blue lawns are mowed.
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>> bw
>> 30.09.13
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