Cal.E.'s Korner

 C.: d.c.

just sent me an email. I don’t know if he wants me to put it in today’s blog or

proofread it and give him my critique of it, because it is obviously from a manuscript he has written. I recognize the style.

Well, since I don’t have anything else to say in the blog, I will just put the excerpt from d.c. scot’s manuscript for The Color Gray.

The “color” gray is made up of two hues that don’t classify as colors. Gray is the combination of the black hue, which is, by definition, the absence of all light and the presence of all color; and the white hue, which is inversely defined as the absence of all color and the presence of all light. The two hues are comprehensive opposites. 

 Since the two hues are absolute and any variance from either creates a different color. If the two hues are combined on a canvas, the resulting hue of that canvas is gray. If more of the black hue is added to the canvas than white, the canvas tends to be a “dark gray.” Inversely, if more of the white hue is added to the canvas than black, the canvas tends to be a lighter shade of gray. There is an unlimited number of possibilities for the hue that the gray canvas may take on.

Many law enforcement officers view the law as being, like the hues black and white, absolute: either completely black (the wrong choice, according to that person); or completely white (the right choice, in that person’s opinion). There are no gray areas in the law according to some. 

Jay McGruder saw his situation in a different light; and he now had a choice to make. He could choose to use the information that he had gathered on Taylor, the potential leader of the free world, to upend that ambition for this very dangerous man; or he could use the information to free his compadre, José Leal:  his friend whom he convinced to turn himself in to law enforcement and admit to committing murder. This had been a choice that had resulted in a death sentence for someone that Jay felt wasn’t deserving of such a fate. It was a choice that most people wouldn’t be eager to make. Jay McGruder was no exception, but he needed a plan. He decided on one and left his office for his destination.

C.; I wonder why d.c. wanted me to put a Vincent Van Gogh picutre at the beginning of the blog? We'll find out tomorrow, right here on Ca.E's KOrner