Syd Barrett: Careening Through Life...
Kris DiLorenzo, Trouser Press, February 1978
THE COLOR black is not a solitary real color. Nor is it the total absence of color. A black hole in space, in fact, is a concentrated area so densely packed that nothing, not even light, can penetrate it.
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