(urth) vanished people=Hieros

[Gerry Quinn]

From: Dan'l Danehy-Oakes 
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 5:42 PM
To: The Urth Mailing List 
Subject: Re: (urth) vanished people=Hieros

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com> wrote:

> > “Colourless” sounds like an odd description of a black cloak anyway.  I know
> > people go on about black and white not being colours, but Severian definitly
> > calls fuligin a colour.

> Where? He repeatedly calls it the "hue" that is darker than black.
Fair enough, but still ‘hue’ implies ‘colour’ to me.  In any case, the real question is whether ‘colourless’ is likely to be used to describe a very noticeably dark black.
- Gerry Quinn
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