Any yellow you see on your TV is therefore a mystical experience. A TV screen contains thousands of red, blue, and green pixels-but not a single yellow.
Though common sense tells us that yellow is the proper primary, without which green cannot exist, this is only true with subtractive colors, like paint. The colour yellow is a mystical experience shared by everyone.’” Red, blue, and green are the primary (additive) colors of light. p.18 “The toenails, on the other hand, never grow at all.” Though Guildenstern never comments on Rosencrantz’s phrasing, try reading the above sentence without the commas… p.20 “‘The colours red, blue, and green are real. p.18 “…the fingernails grow after death, as does the beard.” Not really true, but as a dead body’s skin dries out it shrinks-exposing more of the hair and nail that was previously covered. But we continue to be surprised by the roulette ball’s “beating the odds,” and gamblers continue to lose money betting on fallacious reasoning. Of course, the odds of it landing in either slot never change the ball has a 1 in 2 chance of falling in either red or black. p.16 “…the principle that each individual coin spun individually is as likely to come down heads as tails and therefore should cause no surprise each individual time it does.” The reversal of this principle is commonly known as the “Gambler’s Fallacy”-the mistaken notion that after falling in a black slot five times in a row, the roulette ball must land in a red slot next.
Page numbers are from the 1968 First Evergreen Black Cat Edition of R&G all Act and Scene designations are from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
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