#blue fox

in writing, though, "the blue fox" works great, because you get the concept of "blue" sort of abstracted and tied to this second symbol, "fox" which lets the fox retain all of its fiery orange characteristics, with the blue floating beside it as a pure pigment/motif/symbol. at least that's how it works for me! it's analogous to (and/or dependant on) synaesthesia, where you get colour associations sort of floating over the words. -> writing has the unique ability to provoke layers of loosely associated visuals, not necessarily all coherently fit into the single thing being described, but flitted between at will, new words superseding the old ones. but yeah for the blue fox it works especially well because it's an oxymoron, blue contradicting fox, every time you read it. so i think paradoxes are especially powerful in writing, where your mind is repeatedly tricked into fulfilling something impossible by maintaining both states at once. whereas a film etc. loses what is paradoxical by condensing the two things into one and losing any distinctive contradictory features.

here is a visual representation:

(original unaltered image by Lee Vilenski, CC BY-SA 4.0)

Some fan art after reading The Strange Bird by Jeff Vandermeer

Taxidermy arctic fox stole with mounted head.