| Posted: 17 August 2010 at 4:42am | IP Logged | 6
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John - I thought you were color blind? How can you tell Wendigo is blue??? Just kidding! I heard about that when I was a kid & I read your post about it on this site, so I understand. Bad joke. Shoot me!•• For clarity's sake -- "color blind" does not mean blind to color. "Color confused" would be a more accurate term, in most cases. Often people who are "color blind" "swap" colors. Red for green, for instance. In my case greens and browns tend to get jumbled. As Roger Stern delights in telling, I read the early appearances of Iron Fist thinking he wore a brown costume. This brings up the old question of whether any of us truly see the same colors. We all look at, say, Superman's cape, and we agree that it is "red". But if we could somehow swap eyes, would we necessarily still be seeing the same color? Maybe your red is my blue, my blue is your yellow, etc. Since light has no INHERENT color, and the colors we see come from how the cells in our retinas respond to stimulation by that light, it's not entirely unlikely that we each live in worlds painted in very different color schemes.
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