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From: Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid>
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Subject: Re: YASFID strange color
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2025 09:29:22 -0700
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On Sun, 20 Apr 2025 10:03:20 -0400 (EDT), kludge@panix.com (Scott
Dorsey) wrote:

>In article <pan$8287b$9f14df55$976a4592$4c1d29e3@cpacker.org>,
>Charles Packer  <mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:
>>This news item about a "color no one has seen before"=20
>>https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/apr/18/scientists-claim-to-hav=
e-found-colour-no-one-has-seen-before
>>(or https://tinyurl.com/3hmdzjmk )
>>brought to mind a short story from no later than 1956 about something
>>similar, except that, as I recall, it was an attribute of some
>>kind of object.
>
>The Colour From Out of Space by Lovecraft.

I don't normally do this but, as it happens, I recently saw a film
based on the story that I really liked:
<https://www.amazon.com/review/R3M5UVI9YLBC4D/ref=3Dcm_cr_srp_d_rdp_perm?=
ie=3DUTF8>

These films all face (or faced?) a similar problem: how do you show,
on the silver screen, a color that is different from all known colors?
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"