i'd just like to go back to what erin wrote on wednesday.....
i really enjoy reading about how certain letters evoked very specific colors in Nabokov's mind. for me, sometimes its the smallest detail about a person, or a unique quality in their perspective that i find most intriguing. i love how he shares this personal quirk with us. in regards to his coloring of letters, i especially found it interesting because i've had many a conversation, about what certain days, months, words and emotions conjure up as far as color goes. but i had never really broken words down so far as to think of how letters might appear individually.
it wasn't until i reread the passage erin had posted, that i started to think Nabokovs' assignments of color were not random. if you read aloud: "alder-leaf f, unripe apple p, pistachio t", for me, there's a very obvious connection between the sounds of the color words, and the sound of the individual letter. in my opinion, Nabokov's pairing of color with letter, might all have a foundation in alliteration.
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I found this discussion of color/letter corrolation interesting, but more because I used to do the same thing when I was younger. The capital letter "A" is always red for me, while lowercase is a different color (although I can't tell you exactly what). Y is sort of a mustard-y yellow, most of the time. I have no explanation for this; it seemed entirely natural to me when I was younger. Once I mentioned it to people, however, I became aware that it was not typical. Since then, perhaps because I became consciously aware of it or perhaps simply because I grew up and lost some of my innate creativity, this habit slowly faded.
Today, I still associate letters with colors, but when I actively think about it and try to pinpoint what colors they are, they immediately fade and become color-less.
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