Neith & NoirShutter
NoirShutter
You ever notice how every color in a noir film feels like a ledger entry, a silent witness to the story? I’ve been sketching the palette in my notebook.
Neith
Color is data, yeah. In noir every shade is a variable in a hidden equation. Did you log the saturation of that cigarette smoke? Or is that just artistic fluff?
NoirShutter
I record the haze, but it never settles into a single color—just a fog that keeps shifting like a forgotten cue. The lighter is my only constant.
Neith
Shifting fog is just data that hasn’t converged. Log its hue over time, note when the light source changes. If the ledger never balances, that’s the mystery.
NoirShutter
I keep a battered notebook for my logs, but the smoke never resolves; it just lingers like a silent scene.
Neith
Battered notebooks tend to lose precision. If the fog keeps shifting, treat it as a variable that never converges. Log the light angle, the time of day, and see if you can force it to a single data point. If not, accept that some variables are unquantifiable.
NoirShutter
I let the fog stay unsettled; the angle and the bulb shift like a character in a bad script. I log the changes, but I’m happy the ledger never balances.
Neith
Fine, leave the fog unsettled. If a ledger never balances, maybe the story's not a number but a mystery. Keep logging, don't try to force the variables to fit.
NoirShutter
Yeah, that's the point. The mystery stays in the ledger, not in the numbers.
Neith
Ledger’s the puzzle, numbers are just the side notes. Got it.