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When I was a college student I took a summer class on the works of Herman Melville at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.  I had to write a paper on one of Melville’s works.  The title of my essay, which is all I remember of it, was “Double Look + Twice Think = Horror:  Melville’s World View as seen in The Confidence Man.”  The professor, whose name I don’t remember, had spoken a lot about Moby Dick and the symbolism of the white whale.   He reminded us that without light, there is no color.  I found it very scary and interesting to imagine things in themselves without a bit of color.   It is the reflection of light off of things in themselves that makes things colorful to our eyes.  The things in themselves, by themselves, are color free…and so are we….physically.