They told me of color, that it was an illusion of the eye, an event in the perceiver’s mind, not in the object; they told me that color had no reality; indeed, they told me that color did not inhere in a physical body any more than pain was in a needle. And then they imprisoned me in darkness; and though there was no color there, I was still black, and they still were white; and for that, they bound and gagged me.— The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Vol. I (via labyrinth-without-edge)
(Source: legendofaconsultinghoneybadger)
