“BY MOONLIGHT IN LONELY PLACES near the sea when you are plunged in bitter reflections you see that everything assumes a yellowish appearance…”

-Comte de Lautreamont, Les Chants de Maldoror

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

It is a dull yet lurid orange in some places, a sickly sulphur tint in others.”

-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper