A Sketch by Jean-Pierre Martinez
Two characters of opposite genders, staring into the distance.
One – Look, a rainbow.
Two – Oh yes…
They admire the rainbow.
One – It feels like there’s a colour missing.
Two – Aren’t all the colours there?
One – All the ones we can name, anyway.
Two – What do you mean?
One – In a rainbow, the colours don’t have clear boundaries.
Two – Red only exists because one day someone said, “This is where red starts and this is where it ends.”
One – They say the Inuits have far more words than we do to describe the colour of snow.
Two – So we see through our mother tongue as well.
One – It’s words that draw the boundaries between things, people, and colours.
Two – And what colour do you think is missing?
One – I’m not sure… The colour of all tongues when they mix together.
Their faces move closer as if for a kiss.
Blackout.
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