Colorful Allusions
Though printed in black and white, great literature is bursting with vibrant colour. In these rebus-style puzzles, color words and parts of words have been replaced with colored boxes. Try to guess the exact hue of each. Roll your mouse over the colored boxes to reveal the missing words. Click the colored boxes to learn more about each hue. Special thanks to Paul Dean for his colorful research. |



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The phrase "the grand crayon of Arizona” is, inexplicably, a Googlewhack. Yet the great gorge in Arizona is, indeed, a crayon box of colors, as Jonathan Caws-Elwitt has proven:
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Though Wikipedia won't tell you this, " Lavender's Blue," the old English folk song, was the original "[You Say Tomato, I Say To-mah-to,] Let's Call the Whole Thing Off." " Lavender's blue, dilly dilly, lavender's green." Only in the folk song, they don't call the whole thing off just because they can't agree about the color of lavender. Interestingly, the lyrics in the 1670s version began with the colors the other way around: "Lavender's green, diddle, diddle, lavender's blue," so the first rhyme used to be about "you" and not a once or future "queen."
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