Green in particular. Long Beach Island Refreshment Stand in the Fog Green. Joel would ask, rhetorically but heatedly. One of the things that drove him crazy was wordy definitions of colors, and those dictionary illustrations of prisms and color wheels and the like. Color is personal, he'd say.
Color is a moment.
Jade is a shell of a word, a crappy convention to get a stupid conversation started, a way to get people to feel less by assuming they agree. What matters is my jade. This was Joel. Which, unfortunately, the suburbs were full of. They made his brain ache, he said.