A Commonplace Book

Category: orange...

  • a beach in California with orange groves behind it and snow-capped mountains in the distance
  • half an orange tastes as sweet as a whole one
  • fresh orange juice on vacation
  • orange the color (1557) comes from orange the fruit (1400)
  • When a person says, "I see a yellowish-orange after-image," he is saying something like this: "There is something going on which is like what is going on when I have my eyes open, am awake, and there is an orange illuminated in good light in front of me, that is, when I really see an orange." (John Jamieson Carswell Smart)
  • There is no blue without yellow and without orange. (V. Van Gogh)
  • [The colors on citrus-crate labels] went beyond nature and spoke directly to fantasy: apricot, purple, cobalt blue, sea green, cinnamon, cinnabar, mauve, yellow, orange. (Kevin Starr Inventing the Dream: California through the Progressive Era Oxford 85)

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