Jacke (Jack) Wilson
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1,063 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 3 Aug
Jacke (Jack) Wilson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It can be almost translucent in bright light and so on.
I'm picturing a wine sitting in some kind of receptacle, especially for us.
It's in glass.
You can see that.
It's pretty dazzling and beautiful to think of the sea that way, but...
Wine Dark Sea, that's stuck in my mind.
It's like dawn with her rosy fingers, and it's hard to give it up.
Hey, I'm the guy who still calls Proust's book Remembrance of Things Past.
Once I like something and latch onto it, my mind clings to it.
But anyway, as I was looking into this, Wine Dark versus Wine Faced, I stumbled into a long-held discussion or dispute about whether the ancient Greeks could see the color blue.
Why does Homer say wine-faced or wine-dark when he could just say the blue sea?
Apparently, he never says blue in his works, or yellow, or green.
I did notice Mendelssohn has at least one purple in his translation, and this apparently not having blue or yellow or green caused a lot of consternation among scholars, and some of them asked the question, did they maybe not have the color blue?
Did they not see blue?
Could they not see it when they looked at the sea or the sky or anything else that's blue?
Was this because they weren't making the color in dyes and so on, so they didn't really have a word for it?
Could they not detect the pigment?
And some went so far as to say that the ancient Greeks couldn't see color at all.
The theory was that they only saw intensity of shades, bright and dark, which does raise a couple of points.
Issues, I guess.
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