The color is repellent, almost revolting: a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight. (Charlotte Perkins Gilman)

The color is repellent, almost revolting: a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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