#how much ancient poetry describing the sunset feels unreadable to a modern lense?

[jack-the-fool]

It occurs to me that in the ISAt universe, they would quite possibly describe the ocean as 'wine dark' as a matter of course

#the fact that colors canonically don't exist makes me go crazy sometimes #even more so when I think about how they USED to #isat #in stars and time #and the fact that they used to is a relatively recent discovery which makes my social sciences brain go burrr #how many color idioms survived the desaturating? #how much ancient poetry describing the sunset feels unreadable to a modern lense? #are oranged still called oranges but instead of the color connection we have it's their equivalent of 'apple' (round-shaped fruit thing)? #the implacATIONS #jack.txt