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   Brenda Clough to Joy Beeson   
   Re: storytelling: talent or skill?   
   22 Jun 14 10:36:23   
   
   From: BrendaWriter@yahoo.com   
      
   On 6/21/2014 11:49 PM, Joy Beeson wrote:   
   > On Sat, 21 Jun 2014 00:11:34 -0700 (PDT), William Vetter   
   >   wrote:   
   >   
   >> And she hates yellow.  She wishes there was absolutely nothing yellow in th=   
   >> e entire world.  "Yellow is perfect for a nursery because it can go either =   
   >> way--boy or girl, yellow," the tennis guy's wife had said.  Screw her, impr=   
   >> egnate her, paint her life yellow.   
   >>   
   >> Did you understand that?   
   >   
   > She has been advised to paint the nursery a color she dislikes, and   
   > that has set off an exaggerated repugnance for the color and made it   
   > into a symbol for everything she hates and can't escape.   
   >   
   > Tangent:   
   >   
   > When I was a Junior in college, I was assigned a trendy new dorm room   
   > decorated in "deep yellow", which was in fact bright orange:   
   > orange-print curtains, red-orange plastic chairs, orange bedspreads .   
   > . . To this day, orange looks ugly to me.   
   >   
   > Doesn't stop me from wearing a "taxicab"-color shirt when I ride my   
   > diamond-frame.  But I'm looking for safety-yellow linen to make the   
   > next one.   
   >   
   > And on a total tangent:  why is it that when yellow is the only color   
   > that can be seen through heavy rain, umbrellas come in every color   
   > *except* yellow?   
   >   
   >   
      
   Because most umbrellas are purchased when it is not raining? Also, like   
   most light colors, yellow shows the dirt.   
      
      
   Brenda   
      
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