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Allison Hoover Bartlett

  • I must have been 7 or 8, squatting on the summer-hot pavement with my sister, scrawling disappearing messages on the concrete with snapped leaves of an ice plant, when it occurred to me that people could agree on the name of a thing, in this case, a color — the green of the translucent fluid that oozed from the leaf, which we determined was chartreuse — while seeing it very differently. I understood that when my sister agreed on the name chartreuse, she might, in fact, be seeing what I call red or yellow or blue. I began to see language less as a bridge between people than as a threadbare rope tossed from one edge of a precipice to open hands at another.

    • Allison Hoover Bartlett,
    • "An Ear For Color: Exploring the Curious World of Synesthesia, Where Senses Merge in Mysterious Ways," The Washington Post ()

Allison Hoover Bartlett, Canadian-born U.S. writer