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Strange fruit  

  Red memory. The first Adam formed by god from the red soil was a red man. Was it the dark red soil of the nile flood that gave its name to egypt, the land of khem? The arabs gave us the word al-kimiya , out of which grew our scientific chemistry. Lost in the scientific labyrinth we pray for Ariadne to rescue us with a red thread.  Derek Jarman: Chroma

  To begin teaching someone: 'that looks red' makes no sense, for he must say that spontaneously, once he has learned what red means, ie learnt the technique of using that word. For if someone has mastered the use of what looks red - or indeed what looks red to me - he must also be capable of answering the question, 'and what is red like?' and 'what does something look like when it turns red?'  Wittgenstein: Remarks on colour (cited by Derek Jarman, Chroma - a book of colours)