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Sport 39: 2011

SYNAESTHESIA

SYNAESTHESIA

I’m surprised it’s thought to be unusual, and even that it has a name. I assumed that everyone knew words and numbers had colours. It’s something I took for granted when I was little. A lot of it has slipped away, but 3 is still yellow, 4 a dark green, 8 some sort of red. Ruthpage 62 was green, Henry a pale, putty colour, Bill a dark blue. Letters have colours, too. E is yellow, H is gray, T blacker than black. And now I remember thinking once that perhaps the colours darkened as the alphabet went on.