Our new accommodation.
Why's our new accommodation purple? Did anyone ask for them to be painted purple?
Not me.
Was Cicero consulted? Did she have a say in this?
Who knows?
Someone’s attached to purple, anyway. And all the shades of purple!
Maybe it’s some psychological warfare thing. Some demoralising thing. Maybe purple’s a uniquely depressing colour.
Googling psychological effects of purple.
A blend of a high energy colour, red, and a calming colour, blue. So it can be energising or relaxing, depending.
What about depressing? Does it say anything about depressing?
Toned down hues like lavender are soft and feminine, but darker hues can lead to impatience, frustration and irritability.
Well it's very fucking dark. They're clearly trying to provoke us.
Shades of purple: amethyst, lavender, lilac, mulberry, orchid, plum, puce, pomegranate, wine. And there’s royal purple … Associated with royalty, extravagance and aristocracy … King bloody Charles wore the Purple Robe of Estate after his coronation, apparently …
Would you call this royal purple?
It’s just, like, too much purple. Totally saturated purple. Like, deep purple.
And there’s the Prince connection. He associated purple with the end times, apparently. The pouring of red blood from the heaven, mixed with the sky’s natural blue …
I think purple’s the colour of the endless end times.
Are the purple walls on our side?: that's the question. Is the purple with us or against us? What powers does it represent? Who does it answer to?
The purple … if you pressed your hand against it … if you placed your forehead on it … would you think what it thinks? Would you think with it?
It’s as if the purple was listening. As if the purple was covered in sensors. Purple walls, listening to us as we teach. Absorbing our thoughts. Is it some new smart colour. Some new kind of uni surveillance. Like that stuff they’re putting into fabric.
I don’t believe it. The purple is its own thing.
Really!? Should we should regard the purple as an ally? As on our side? Is it in league with us?
I don’t know … It needs careful thought.
Work in Progress 