Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!mc.lcs.mit.edu!KFL From: KFL@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU ("Keith F. Lynch") Newsgroups: net.space Subject: Colors Message-ID: <[MC.LCS.MIT.EDU].848871.860312.KFL> Date: Wed, 12-Mar-86 22:55:05 EST Article-I.D.: <[MC.LCS.MIT.EDU].848871.860312.KFL> Posted: Wed Mar 12 22:55:05 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 15-Mar-86 19:05:58 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 9 From: FIRTH@tl-20b.arpa As another example, what about Homer's "wine-dark sea"? I've sailed over that same sea, and it isn't wine coloured (nor particularly dark). Well, Homer was blind, you know. ...Keith