[Elfsea] Purple and red

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Gracias everyone!

That's really neat...I am going to forward it to my mom!

Maria

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> -----Original Message-----
>
> Thank you for getting the literary reference!!!
>
> Well, I do like to wear purple already, and I have this nifty red hat with
> white fur and ermine spots on it that I get to wear.  I also bought some red
> fezes at Gulf War that look pretty cool:)
>
> There is also an oblique reference to wearing purple - actually a dark
> reddish purple - that the nobility of Constantinople wore - made from the
> murex shells.  The nobility were also said to be "born to the purple" or
> Porphrygenitus.  The halls of the palace were made of a purplish marble
> called poryphery (I think - no books handy to look it up).  I got to see an
> urn made out of this beautiful marble when I went to Dumbarton Oaks
> University in D.C. several years ago.
>
> Mistress Xene.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> There are even clubs now of older ladies who wear purple and red hats... I
> think I heard somewhere that if you are a junior member, you have to wear
> blue and a pink hat, or some such.
>
> And you are not so old, Padraig.  Logan is older than you.
>
> Madelina
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> How many others recognized (and smiled at) Xene's reference to the following
> poem?
>
> WARNING
> When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
> With a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me.
> And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
> And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.
> I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired
> And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
> And run my stick along the public railings
> And make up for the sobriety of my youth.
> I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
> And pick the flowers in other people's gardens . . .
> But maybe I ought to practice a little now?
> So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised
> When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
> Xene, when you are twice your present age, I shall still be older than you.
> :)  But I'll bet we will both still remember The Moose Song.
>
> Happy Birthday and many happy returns of the day.
>
> Padraig