Color struck.Color struck Color Struck is a play by Zora Neale Hurston. It was originally published in 1925 in Opportunity Magazine. Color Struck won second prize in the contest for best play. Color Struck was not staged during the Harlem Renaissance. him like lightning and he went down with a thud, blinded to her blackness. The heat of her tar blistered his vision. (He was color struck.) The lightning of her darkness scorched scorch v. scorched, scorch·ing, scorch·es v.tr. 1. To burn superficially so as to discolor or damage the texture of. See Synonyms at burn1. 2. his albinoed desires to fragments of forgetfulness Forgetfulness See also Carelessness. Absent-Minded Beggar, The ballad of forgetful soldiers who fought in the Boer War. [Br. Lit.: “The Absent-Minded Beg-gars” in Payton, 3] absent-minded professor . The streaks of her ebony pierced away his prejudice. (He was color struck.) The day of her night sizzled his horizon with a flash of black which stripped his sight. His eyes were gone, but he could smell smoke. (He was color struck) |
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