“The Colors” / Memorable Fancies #3236

[“in the land of the blind all colors are unbelievable” – Breyten Breytenbach]

And so you teach her without mentioning any colors, without telling her that there are hundreds, thousands of colors she will never see or understand. To tell her about colors might crush her spirit, lead to despair.

So you teach her only the word “black.”

And she says, “what’s ‘black’”?

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