[extropy-chat] effing

[gts]

On Tue, 06 Dec 2005 00:27:30 -0500, Damien Broderick  
<thespike at satx.rr.com> wrote:

> "But what was peculiar about it was its colour. It was an entirely new  
> colour--not a new shade or combination, but a new primary colour, as  
> vivid as blue, red, or yellow, but quite different. When he inquired,  
> she told him that it was known as "ulfire." Presently he met with a  
> second new colour. This she designated "jale." The sense impressions  
> caused in Maskull by these two additional primary colors can only be  
> vaguely hinted at by analogy. Just as blue is delicate and mysterious,  
> yellow clear and unsubtle, and red sanguine and passionate, so he felt  
> ulfire to be wild and painful, and jale dreamlike, feverish, and  
> voluptuous."

http://www.litrix.com/arcturus/arctu006.htm

This is poetry.

Given sufficiently advanced poetry, could a blind person be persuaded to  
see color?

-gts