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...just there, floating from the left of the frame into the proceedings of history, like a shark's fin at the edge of a crowd splashing at the beach, moves a disembodied hand and its tense instrument, a blue-black pistol. It is poised there forever. And then it explodes at the Pope's white robe...
Milton's mighty imagery-the fiery lake of hell, the bridge over chaos, the sense of a vast cosmos-was virtually ignored. Hell was a murky blue-black pit. A metallic-looking dome, which resembled a spaceship, stood for Eden's glories...
...illusion of standing on the Martian plain became even more vivid when scientists produced a color picture that confirmed the appropriateness of Mars' longtime sobriquet of Red Planet. The soil seemed to consist of a fine-grained reddish material interspersed with small blue-black or blue-green patches. Many of the rocks were also coated with a reddish stain, strongly suggesting the presence of iron that had rusted in the presence of atmospheric or waterbound oxygen. Other rocks, blue-green and opalescent, reminded some scientists of copper ore. After correcting the color values on the photograph, scientists decided that...
...indeed, was Harold Foster. Volume I of Prince Valiant (roughly, strips 1937 to 1940) follows the sturdy young nobleman with the blue-black pageboy from youth through his early squire days at King Arthur's Court. Affectionate readers may forgivingly understand why the Duke of Windsor called this strip the "greatest contribution to English literature in the past 100 years." To be continued in Volume...
...astrologer's mind is quick, despite his 72 years, and the irises of his blue-black eyes seem enormous. He sat in an oversized lounge chair beneath a whirling fan, and in his lap he held a black slate. As a little girl brought him tea, he scribbled a row of figures, then another, revising them again and again-all this based on my birthday...