Sapphire Star

David Stockhoff · 30 Dec 2008, 15:41 · from 2008-December.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:41:29 -0500
Subject: (urth) Sapphire Star
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Good to know!

Wolfe always weaves his fiction from existing threads, whether literary or real. In a sense, he's one of the most "unoriginal" and "uncreative" writers I can think of--in his use of words, for example. It's no surprise that he would follow some orthodoxy on Byzantine color schemes. 

If I had half the knowledge in that man's head ....

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Another point that may be of interest regarding red within or beneath blue.

In Byzantine art, red is the color of divinity, blue the color of
humanity.  Christ is therefore often shown with blue over red--the
divine "putting on" the human form.  (Mary, in contrast, wears red
over blue, the human taken up by divine grace).

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