May 2

Today’s color was chosen for its name, and because I’ve missed the sun. I wonder if there is a profession solely designated for people who name colors. Unmellow yellow, as one might suspect, is indeed a Crayola name. It was created in 1990 and has been favorited four times on Crayola’s official site. In crayons, the color might appear slightly orange, though the computer display it might appear more pale, depending on one’s monitor. The color is supposed to be fluorescent, but there is no mechanism to display fluorescence on a flat computer screen.

Yellow doesn’t ever seem unmellow to me in any way, shape or form. It seems to always herald something, if not sunshine, then sulfurous evil. This curious juxtaposition of light and foreboding reminds me of Asterion, who was at once sacred and monstrous.

I’m so near the end I can’t see it anymore, so sick of writing I’d turn around and probably still do it all over again. I don’t understand why “House of Asterion” is billed as a horror story. It made my heart ache.

look: William Blake, Elisha In The Chamber On The Wall 1820
listen: Remy van Kesteren, Refugee
read: Jorge Luis Borges, “The House of Asterion”