Red/Green

[radegund]

(I'm on a polarities vibe today, clearly.)

So, tea break just now, conversation turns to colour blindness. Colleague reveals that he can't distinguish between red and green. Explains the genetics (grandfather passes to grandson through daughter - women are carriers but not sufferers; men vice versa), cheerfully answers questions about what he can and can't see.

"You know," he says, "if you show me a colour that's half way between red and green, I won't know which one it is."

Wow, I think. Here's somebody who all his life has assumed that there are colours half way between red and green, which other people can assign accurately to one category or the other.

Perspective, it's all about.

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[glitzfrau.livejournal.com]

My cousins are colourblind, and my aunt saved money by buying a black-and-white television, and telling them it was colour. But they weren't fooled for a second, and why is beyond me also.

Yep, the rest of my family are even more twisted.

[radegund.livejournal.com]

There something so ... I don't know ... Zadie Smith about that.

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[glitzfrau.livejournal.com]

well, they were living in South London at the time!