multiplicities by asher tuil

The blue changed. It became brighter, lighter, and at the same time thicker: impure. The ethereal luminosity of blue-violet turned to turquoise, intense and opaque. Still we could not have said that everything was now turquoise-colored, for there were still no things. There was nothing, except the color of turquoise.
The change continued. The opacity became veined and thinned. the dense, solid color began to appear translucent, transparent. then it seemed as if we were in the heart of a sacred jade, or the brilliant crystal of a sapphire or an emerald.
as at the inner structure of a crystal, there was no motion. but there was something, now, to see. it was as if we saw the motionless, elegant, inward structures of a precious stone. planes and angles appeared about us, shadowless and clear in that even, glowing, blue-green light.

Ursula K LeGuin - The New Atlantis

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