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From: William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: YASFID strange color
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2025 14:44:12 -0400
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Charles Packer wrote:
> This news item about a "color no one has seen before"
> https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/apr/18/scientists-claim-to-have-
> 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.
> 

I can only recall Lovecraft's "The colour out of space" and Shea's 
excellent if misspelled sequel "The color out of time".

(As I made the misspelling joke I felt a strong force affecting my 
fingers, causing me to misspell even the simplest words.  I think we've 
found the fifth force!).

William Hyde