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Dear Mary and List,
How wonderful to have discovered under "dead colour" the OED´s information
about "a first and preparatory painting on a surface". This opens a new
field for associations and hidden meanings ( palimpsest would be an
interesting word to explore in relation to VN...). Several kinds of paint
are intoxicating and not only by lead poisoning: I wonder what kind of "dead
color" paint is applied to a virginal surface...
In an unposted mailing I had suggested that colours black and white ( that
are not used for all chessboards as someone recently informed me: some have
red or yellow squares instead of white ones? ) are interchangeable markers
for places in chess games. A censored page ( a deadly black silent page ) is
a white sheet covered with black ink and this reference is also present in
TT when HP considers his own writing and not his corrections as a reviewer.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Donald B. Johnson" <chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu>
To: <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2004 8:09 PM
Subject: Fwd: repeat message, re deadly white
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> Couldn't "deadly white" be a change on the colour term "dead white"? In
> other contexts the color would be pure white or flat white. The words
> "dead" and "deadly" are equally proleptic (a word I had to look up) as the
> other, but the change catches attention.
>
> OED has under "dead colour" this quotation: The Dead-colouring is the
first
> or preparatory painting, and is so termed because the colours are laid
cold
> and pale to admit of the after-paintings.
>
> Mary Krimmel
>
> ----- End forwarded message -----
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>
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How wonderful to have discovered under "dead colour" the OED´s information
about "a first and preparatory painting on a surface". This opens a new
field for associations and hidden meanings ( palimpsest would be an
interesting word to explore in relation to VN...). Several kinds of paint
are intoxicating and not only by lead poisoning: I wonder what kind of "dead
color" paint is applied to a virginal surface...
In an unposted mailing I had suggested that colours black and white ( that
are not used for all chessboards as someone recently informed me: some have
red or yellow squares instead of white ones? ) are interchangeable markers
for places in chess games. A censored page ( a deadly black silent page ) is
a white sheet covered with black ink and this reference is also present in
TT when HP considers his own writing and not his corrections as a reviewer.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Donald B. Johnson" <chtodel@gss.ucsb.edu>
To: <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2004 8:09 PM
Subject: Fwd: repeat message, re deadly white
>
>
> Couldn't "deadly white" be a change on the colour term "dead white"? In
> other contexts the color would be pure white or flat white. The words
> "dead" and "deadly" are equally proleptic (a word I had to look up) as the
> other, but the change catches attention.
>
> OED has under "dead colour" this quotation: The Dead-colouring is the
first
> or preparatory painting, and is so termed because the colours are laid
cold
> and pale to admit of the after-paintings.
>
> Mary Krimmel
>
> ----- End forwarded message -----
>
>
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