Fifty Shades of Grey

1.            Gray.
2.            Flannel suit.
3.            Whistler’s mother.
4.            Losing side at Gettysburg.
5.            1950s.
6.            Dorian.
7.            Yeats meets Ronsard.
8.            Hair.
9.            Heron.
10.          New York Times.
11.          French cars.
12.          Gandalf.
13.          Indifference.
14.          Lamps going out all over Europe.
15.          Waterloo charge.
16.          Twilight.
17.          Dawn.
18.          Clouds.
19.          Reflection.
20.          Wolf.
21.          Black and white TV.
22.          Boredom.
23.          Sunday.
24.          Poirot.
25.          Humility.
26.          Headless lady.
27.          Four Goethe dames.
28.          Melancholy.
29.          Ambiguity.
30.          Whale.
31.          Guernica.
31.          Noise.
32.          West Point.
33.          Trübe Wolken.
34.          Pearl.
35.          Jerusalem Sage.
36.          Common sense.
37.          Fog.
38.          Cromwell.
39.          Eminence.
40.          Power.
41.          Lead.
42.          Ash.
43.          Cinderella.
44.          Payne’s.
45.          Pinot.
46.          Voodoo.
47.          Battleship.
48.          Friars.
49.          End of world goo.
50.          The other 450 shades the human eye can see.

Tom Vaughan

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