Cover of the print book Mauve by Simon Garfield showing a painting of an older man with white hair and a full beard in a scientific lab holding some fabric or maybe yarn that is a light shade of purple.

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   Jessamyn (jessamyn@glammr.us)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Oct-2024 23:44:48 JST Jessamyn

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   Book 53: Mauve. Probably an interesting story, told in a weird way. There are many popular history books out there where you can tell by reading them what references the author used to assemble their narrative. Long recitations of menu items is a tip-off. In this case there was a fancy well-documented 50th anniversary party feting the guy who created the color mauve. The book explains why it was a big deal but a lot of it is about the history of colors and dyes and him being forgotten by history