Coloured thinking and other studies in science and literature / by D.F. Fraser-Harris.

  • David Fraser Fraser-Harris
Date:
1928
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Credit: Coloured thinking and other studies in science and literature / by D.F. Fraser-Harris. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    One coloured thinker has thus expressed himself: “ When I think at all definitely about the month of January, the name or word appears to me reddish, whereas April is white, May yellow, the vowel ‘ i' is always black, the letter ‘ o ’ white, and ‘ w ’ indigo- blue. Only by a determined effort can I think of ‘ b ’ as green or blue, for me it always has been and must be black ; to imagine August as anything but white seems to me an im¬ possibility, an altering of the inherent nature of things There is thus an inherent definite¬ ness, finality, and constancy about each thinker’s psychochromes that is very striking. But it is not alone letters and words that are habitually thought of as coloured, certain coloured thinkers always associate a particular colour with their thoughts about a particular person. The author of The Comer of Harley Street ” remarks (p. 251): “If only we could use colours now to express our deeper attitude on these occasions, as some of your fellow clergy wear stoles at certain seasons, with what pleasant impunity could we write to one another in yellow or purple or red, leaving black for the editor of the Times or the plumber whose bill we are disputing”.
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