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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: absorbed. We see only the blue. For the same reason grass is GREEN. The green
waves of white light are thrown upon our eyes."
"When we paint our houses, we do not apply color to them," he said at another
time. "What we do is to apply certain substances that have the property of
absorbing from white light all the colors except those that we would have our
houses appear. When a substance reflects all the colors to the eye, it seems
to us white. When it absorbs all the colors, it is black. But, as I said
before, we have as yet no perfect black. All the colors are not absorbed. The
perfect black, guarding against high lights, will be utterly and absolutely
invisible. Look at that, for example."
He pointed to the palette lying on his work-table. Different shades of black
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