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"BLUE is a mysterious color, hue of illness and nobility,
the rarest color in nature. It is the color of
ambiguous depth, of the heavens and of the abyss at
once; blue is the color of the shadow side, the tint of
the marvelous and the inexplicable, of desire, of
knowledge, of the blue movie, of blue talk, of raw
meat and rare steak, of melancholy and the unexpected
(once in a blue moon, out of the blue)."

"Mr. Blue" was a song sung by the Fleetwoods as well as the title of a small, mysteriously lovely novel written in 1928 by Myles Connolly. Another Miles, Davis, gave us one of jazzs greatest albums, Kind of Blue".

"I tell you, Mr. [Samuel] Bowles," wrote heartbroken Emily Dickinson to the one man she loved probably more than any other, after he sailed
for Europe, "it is a Suffering to have a sea—no care how Blue—between your Soul, and you."
[...]
Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote, "And you were a
liar, O Blue melancholy,"

"Linguist Morris Swadeshs famous list ofthe basic
one hundred words ("I, we, you, this, that, one, two,
not, man, woman, dog, tree, hand, eye, neck, water,
sun, stone, big, small, good," etcetera) includes the
color terms "white, black, red, yellow, green," but
not "blue." Many languages lack
a distinctive word for blue. Is it that people the
world over instinctively feel it to be less than a
primary color?"