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The colours of the night
« : 18.07.16 at 18:18 » |
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Behold the colours of the night The crimson lake, the China white ... I happened upon the same juxtaposition of 'crimson lake' and 'China white' in a haunting poem caller Curzon's Foundling, by Pat Winslow "... cracked skin - crimson lake, a dab of china white ..." http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/record.asp?id=15166 Pat's poem imagines a foundling monk in a Mount Athos monastery, who has never seen a woman or any representation of one except the Virgin Mary. I am sure there's no connection with Clive's lyric, but to me those pigment colours have always suggested a blended skin tone - something far removed from the battle scene.
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