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Mary Ruefle's Stunning Color Spectrum of Sadnesses
"Nearly two centuries after Goethe contemplated the psychology of color and
emotion, Mary Ruefle's chromatic taxonomy of sadness cracks open the eggshell of
our fragility to reveal within it a kaleidoscope coruscating with irrepressible
aliveness. What emerges is the feeling -- something beyond the reasoned
understanding -- that sadness is not the tip of the Atlantis-sized iceberg of
our hard-wired grief for life, but the blazing fire of life itself, of the love
of life, burning with the elemental fact that there is no disappointment without
hope, no heartbreak without love; in the shadows that sadness casts on the cave
walls of our being is the delicious delirium of the life-dream itself."
