第164页 Basic Black

It is confusing.Black is a color worn equally by mourners and monarchs, melancholics and  motorcycle enthusiasts. It’s a color favored both by beatniks (remember those?) and by Batman. By ninjas and by nuns. By fascists and by fashionistas. Hamlet, Himmler, and Hepburn all wore black. So did Martin Luther and Marlon Brando —- and Fred Astaire. It is a color that can be both recessive and excessive:  the color of objection and of arrogance, of piety and of perversity, of restraint and of rebelliousness.  It’s the color of glamour, and it is the color of gloom.