BookMarking Colors

Comparing the use of color in different books, and some other stuff (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga'); ga('create', 'UA-43593600-1', 'tumblr.com'); ga('send', 'pageview');

[gulliverhimself]

What happens to this self-discovery in love when you meet someone else, and you suddenly feel, "I know that person"?

That's very mysterious. It's almost as though the future life that you're going to have with that person has already told you, This is the one whom you will have that life with.

It's almost as though you were reacting to the future. It's talking to you from what is to be. This has to do with the mystery of time and the transcendence of time. But I think we're touching a very deep mystery here.

Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers, The Power of Myth

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

And what an extraordinary little man he was!

He had a black top hat on his head.

He wore a tail coat made of a beautiful plum-coloured velvet.

His trousers were bottle green.

His gloves were pearly grey.

And in one hand he carried a fine gold-topped walking cane.

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

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The Night Circus

The bonfire ignites in an eruption of yellow flame.

Then the second chime follows, the second archer sends his arrow into the yellow flames, and they become a clear sky-blue.

A third chime with a third arrow, and the flames are a warm bright pink.

Flames the color of a ripe pumpkin follow the fourth arrow.

A fifth, and the flames are scarlet-red.

A sixth brings a deeper, sparkling crimson.

Seven, and the fire is soaked in a color like an incandescent wine.

Eight, and the flames are shimmering violet.

Nine, and violet shifts to indigo.

A tenth chime, a tenth arrow, and the bonfire turns deepest midnight blue.

On the penultimate chime, the dancing flames change from blue to black, and for that moment, it is difficult to discern the fire from its cauldron.

And on the final strike, the dark flames are replaced with a blinding white, a shower of sparks falling like snowflakes around it. Huge curls of dense white smoke swirl up into the night sky.

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Dot plot comparing common phrases in Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow.

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Here's a dot plot showing repeated phrases in Kate Atkinson's Life After Life. The size of the circles represent the length of the repeated phrase.

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The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Take 3)

Here are the colors mentioned in the book, this time they are sorted separately for each chapter. 

And another color quote from the book:

We climbed a wooden stile, hand in hand, and reached another field, planted with what looked like small reeds or furry snakes, black and white and brown and orange and grey and striped, all of them waving gently, curling and uncurling in the sun.

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The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Take 2)

This time I tried sorting all the colors found in the book instead of plotting them by where they were found in the text.

The colors that jump out to me are the grey and pink of Ursula Monkton, and the orange of the sky.

Future goal - try sorting each chapter separately - what would that look like?

And here's another color quote from the book:

He gave my sister and me an opal each, a rough black rock with green-blue-red fire in it.

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The Ocean at the End of the Lane

I had never seen so many colours: it was silver, yes, but beneath the silver was blue and green and purple and each scale was tipped with black.

[n3rdgeschoss]

This is something i made after reading the book. And here is a quote that describes exactly what I felt while reading it:

I will say this. It made me smile. I laughed out loud. I cried. Not because of any particular sad moment, but because sometimes the shape a story makes is like a key turning inside me and I cannot do anything but weep.

- Patrick Rothfuss

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The Great Gatsby

While we admired he brought more and the soft rich heap mounted higher—shirts with stripes and scrolls and plaids in coral and apple-green and lavender and faint orange, and monograms of Indian blue.