"Rushing to the door he wrenched it open, and plunged forward into a red vacancy," from Ghosts, Being the Experiences of Flaxman Low by Kate O'Brien Prichard and illustrated by B. E. Minns, 1899.

The colors combine into a six-pointed ghostly star.  From The Principles of Light and Color by Edwin Dwight Babbitt, 1878.

You knew that a rainbow can cast a shadow, but did you know that a shadow can also cast a rainbow?  We find the proof in Ceylon in the “Jubilee Year” by John Ferguson, 1887.

"I see that the whole world looks gray," from St. Nicholas magazine, 1909.

"'What is it?' he gasped.  'I see something like blood—some crimson cord—a note—a—."  From Thrilling Stories for the Masses, 1892.

Did you know that the collective noun for glitter is apparently "library"?  "Ah, the glamour of the literary life!" —Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

The aurora flashed crimson in The Icelander's Sword by Sabine Baring-Gould, 1894.

A synaesthete told us we're like a flexible acrylic notebook cover of translucent cyan blue.  "Translucent cyan" is an anagram of "uncanny clatters," so it all begins to make sense.

Here are the colors of the void from Catalog of Portables and Shades by Welsbach Commercial Company, 1910.

An illustration from Poems Via the Author, Third Series, Political (1888).  The caption reads: "But here you shall more secrets gain, / And never need be fooled again. ... Explanation of the Colours."

Here are the most colorful three lines of dialogue possible.  The scene involves a couple planning a holiday.  Reggie B. yearns for the ocean, but Em is a hydrophobic.  We join them as Reggie B. hesitatingly hands Em a surfing brochure:

Reggie B: [pleadingly] Sea, Em?

Em: [exasperated over Reggie B.'s insensitivity to her irrational fear of water] Why?

Reggie B. [acquiescing, though aqua-effing under his breath] 'Kay.

We abbreviate the title of the dialogue as CMYK, and we do believe it covers the entire spectrum.

We're tickled that a photo of our rainbow bookshelves illustrates these sentences in an English lesson: "My bookcase is a mess.  I need to sort out my books."

Thanks to Gordon Meyer (of Smart Home Hacks fame), who for years has stocked our minimalist coloring book (complete with white crayon) at Quimby's bookstore.  Here's a photo of Gordon's presentation:

"It's this October softening the burning sun that fills the air with a new element, an element like a great melted pearl, through which you see everything." —John Cowper Powys, Porius