But colour of physical objects and colour on a screen are different experiences. I like that story because it speaks to the same joy and visceral reaction I have to colour.
It causes his potion pots to overflow and the colours to run into one another, creating a rich and varied enough palette that the people can repaint the world the way we see it now. Finally the wizard's desperation means he creates primary colours in a frenzy. Similar things happen with red (rage) and yellow (headaches) as the people try to live in these monochrome worlds. They paint EVERYTHING blue because it's the most exciting thing in the world.įor a while life is brilliant, but then everyone gradually gets sadder and sadder because of all the blue. At this point he and the rest of the townsfolk lose their collective shit. The Wizard in the story spends a lot of time in his basement mixing up spells and potions to distract from the greyness, eventually discovering "blue". The Great Blueness is a book about colour – the joy of colour and the power of colour. My copy is tatty through reading and re-reading not so much dog-eared as it is utterly lacking in corners and the laminated cover has those yellow-brown veins creeping across it where it's been creased and straightened. One of my favourite children's books is The Great Blueness And Other Predicaments by Arnold Lobel. “It is hard to tell when the rainy days stop and the sunny days begin.” “Something is very wrong with the world,” he would say. It was a time that was called The Great Greyness.Įvery morning a Wizard who lived during the time of The Great Greyness would open his window to look out at the wide land.
Almost everything was grey, and what was not grey was black or white. Long ago there were no colours in the world at all. An experiment with colour mods in Cities: Skylines.
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