posted by [identity profile] sheldrake.livejournal.com at 07:54am on 11/09/2004
i was a happy synaesthetic child.

Me too, heheh. Which reminds me. You were asking what people thought you looked like, and I was pondering this. I came to the conclusion that I haven't a clue, but I thought you might be blonde, because your username is mainly yellow.

anyone with a quangle wangle icon must be pretty doughty, i reckon!

I reckon, too. Which is why it would be wrong if you didn't have one. Here you go:



 
posted by [identity profile] sophrosyne31.livejournal.com at 06:35am on 12/09/2004
OH GOSH THANK YOU!! my very own quangle wangle frog!! he even has the same expression on my face as i do sometimes when i'm waiting for a bus.

*pats your fuzzy fellow and smiles froggy smile of contentment*

now, about the yellow. my username? i think i know what you mean. but i see it as indigo-ish, something darker... i was blonde as a child! but now am very emphatically dark. innit strange how clearly we imagine these things? especially hair colour. you're definitely blonde, maybe a dark buttery colour, straight hair, and with a face containing a mix of childish curves and very adult intelligence. how do i know this? well, i absolutely don't. in fact i don't even know where i'm channelling this from. i think i'll shut up now.

*froggy smile again*
 
posted by [identity profile] sheldrake.livejournal.com at 05:16am on 19/09/2004
Do comments have a use-by date after which it's silly to reply. Well anyway. It occurs to me that your username is only mostly yellow because it has a lot of yellow characters in it - two S's and a 3. However, the two O's also give it a dark blue note. There. Glad that's sorted.

Re: me - you're wrong about the blonde, but surprisingly accurate about the face (although I'm not sure about the adult intelligence bit *cough*). Anyway, if you want to check your accuracy, I posted a pic a while back, heheh.
 
posted by [identity profile] sophrosyne31.livejournal.com at 06:28am on 20/09/2004
i think old-post comments are one of life's underrated delights!

right. this synasthaesia of colour/letter/numeral - have you read nabokov's 'speak, memory' memoir of his childhood? he has a marvellous section on synasthaesia, and i do believe he ascribes colours to letter and numbers, and i almost believe he might have said (hazy memory) that 3 was very yellow. i think this because his colours matched mine, and so do yours. you're so right, S and 3 are yellow. i tend to think of 4 as quite solid, nine is definitely a muddy shade, i think 8 is maybe a blue. gosh i could go on all night like this.

you see we are as one. *g*

and oh your picture! you know, i have actually seen this, of course. but my imago of you was already fixed before, and thus confirmed. you do indeed look clever and curvy and omg sassy. I WAS ALMOST RIGHT ABOUT THE HAIR.

hehehheheh. *quangle wangles*
 
posted by [identity profile] sheldrake.livejournal.com at 10:26am on 25/09/2004
have you read nabokov's 'speak, memory' memoir of his childhood?

I have not, although I know of it. I must check it out.

Sadly we part company after S and 3, because for me, 4 is light blue, 9 is pink, 8 is a sort of faun. Nine, incidentally, is the same colour as Thursday.

I do love a conversation with a synaesthete! Recently I was in the car with my mum and dad, and my mum and I had this long, in depth debate about our colours, which I remember doing a lot when I was a child. My dad had absolutely no idea what we were on about.
 
posted by [identity profile] sophrosyne31.livejournal.com at 06:59am on 26/09/2004
you're so right about nine and thursday. thursday is also a right-hand day.

left hand associates include eight, yellow, and minor-scale music tones. i've always preferred my left side, it's so blue-sky and tastes like caramel (figuratively, this last).

i'm not convinced about nine being pink, though.

read the nabokov, by the way. it's magic.
 
posted by [identity profile] sheldrake.livejournal.com at 05:48am on 30/09/2004
A funny thing - most even numbers are female, and odd numbers male. The only exception to this is nine, which is female.

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