When fresh blood is examined with the microscope, red cells appear to be yellow-green disks with pale centres containing no visible internal structures.
Cut the leek in half lengthways and remove the pale green centre.
More flower than mushroom, over weeks it became the size of an overlarge flan, way bigger than my face, with alien yet flan-like features: a pale, creamy centre without blemish and a brown frill the colour of baked biscuit,around its rim.
'Band of Gold' and 'Aureomarginata' have green leaves with a gold margin that fades to ivory; 'Gold Standard' has dark green margins and pale gold centres that change to lime, then butter-yellow, then white.
Within one week, the small erythema spread laminarly, exhibiting a red edge with a paler, faded centre, and the patient showed symptoms resembling an EM caused by B. burgdorferi as an early symptom of Lyme disease [ 1, 4].
Care-givers gave a detailed description of degedege/likonde episode: (a) "the child has jerky movements, then falls down, or if s/he doesn't fall down s/he can look with a staring gaze or looks as if s/he has been attacked by an evil spirit and thereafter the eyes roll side to side while the black spot in the centre looks pale" (KII young father, Chemchem Village).
The leaves are composed of five lance-shaped lobes occurring mainly near the stalk top; the flowers, pale yellow with purple centres, are borne on short stalks growing from the upper angles between leaf stalks and stems.
At the centre, a pale-skinned Pete Doherty – exiled frontman of the Libertines – holds court with an army of bands who look like fans, or is it fans who look like bands?
At its centre is a pale orange life form you could hollow out and use as a tent.
This link between the prosaic everydayness that Foster Wallace confronts and the broader issue of the vital if unsexy service provided by institutions such as the IRS lies at the centre of The Pale King.
