Author: Jennie Erdal

Cites

• David Hume (1)
  • IN: The Missing Shade of Blue (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Suppose therefore a person to have enjoyed this sight for thirty years, and to have become perfectly well acquainted with colours of all kinds, excepting one particular shade of blue, for instance, which it never has been his fortune to meet with. Let all the different shades of that colour, except that single one, be placed before him, descending gradually from the deepest to the lightest; it is plain, that he will perceive a blank, where that shade is wanting, and will be sensible, that there is a greater distance in that place betwixt the contiguous colours, than in any other. Now I ask, whether it is possible for him, from his own imagination, to supply this deficiency, and raise up to himself the idea of that particular shade, though it had never been conveyed to him by his senses?
    FROM: A Treatise of Human Nature, (1740), Book, UK
• Theodore Roethke (1)
  • IN: The Missing Shade of Blue (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: And the abyss? The abyss? The abyss you can't miss: It's right where you are -- A step down the stair.
    FROM: "The Abyss", (1962), Poem, US