Colourful

Now into the final third of The Color Purple I need to refine one of my comments from yesterday. It’s generally beautifully written, but Nettie’s letters are more than a little clunky at times.

I’m not terribly keen on purple as a colour. The late Martin Lings (highly respected Islamic scholar) set great store by the combination of blue and gold: If blue liberates by Infinitude, gold liberates because, like the sun, it is a symbol of the Spirit and therefore virtually transcends the whole world of forms. Looking at the jacket of my copy of Lings’s A Return To The Spirit, which incorporates a gorgeous blue and gold design (I assume a traditional one, but it’s not attributed) I find that pretty convincing.