Breakfast at Tiffany’s: The Cure for Synesthesia
3 min readOct 9, 2020
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Holly Golightly Was an Emotion to Color Synesthete
In 1958 when Truman Capote published the novella Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Time magazine declared its heroine Holly Golightly, “the hottest kitten ever to hit the typewriter keys” of Mr. Capote. “She’s a cross between a grown-up Lolita and a teen-age Auntie Mame …alone and a little afraid in a lot of beds she never made.”