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标题：Protanopia.
作者：Baer, William
期刊名称：Modern Age
印刷版ISSN：0026-7457
出版年度：2009
期号：June
语种：English
出版社：Intercollegiate Studies Institute Inc.

摘要：
The Tate Gallery

   He stood in the palace of color, colorblind,   surrounded by "Rossetti, Hunt, and John Millais,   yet in the visual cortex of his mind,   their pinks were blue, their reds were black and gray.   His worthless retinal cones were still immune   to color brightness--permanent, severe,   congenital--but then she entered the room   and colored his world like Morris' Guinevere.   He now could see the reddest crimson red,   and peacock, ruby, pink, and apricot.   "I don't know who or what you are?" he said.   "The cure," she answered with a smile. "For what?"   As drenched with color in the Pre-Raph wing,   she whispered in black-and-white: "Everything!"

WILLIAM BAER holds the Peterson Chair in English and American literature at the University of Evansville, where he also directs The Evansville Review.

Protanopia.

Baer, William

The Tate Gallery

  He stood in the palace of color, colorblind,
  surrounded by "Rossetti, Hunt, and John Millais,
  yet in the visual cortex of his mind,
  their pinks were blue, their reds were black and gray.
  His worthless retinal cones were still immune
  to color brightness--permanent, severe,
  congenital--but then she entered the room
  and colored his world like Morris' Guinevere.
  He now could see the reddest crimson red,
  and peacock, ruby, pink, and apricot.
  "I don't know who or what you are?" he said.
  "The cure," she answered with a smile. "For what?"
  As drenched with color in the Pre-Raph wing,
  she whispered in black-and-white: "Everything!"

WILLIAM BAER holds the Peterson Chair in English and American literature at the University of Evansville, where he also directs The Evansville Review.