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Big Mac's avatar

Red is the colour of the new $280,000 carpet in Danielle Smith's office. She walks on it. What else would she do? Tell us about the colour red in The Handmaid's Tale.

https://globalnews.ca/news/11161871/alberta-government-rug-premier-office-cost/

Tell us about fine china in the novel. Didn't Serena Joy like China?

The Vertical Dispatch's avatar

"Consider frequently the connection of all things in the universe and their relation to one another. For things are somehow implicated with one another, and all in a way friendly to one another."— Meditations 6.38

Big Mac's avatar

"...in poor condition, riddled with 'stains, rips and tears' and more than 20 years old." Outlived its usefulness and youthfulness, no longer pretty.

Glen Thomson's avatar

I wonder if Margaret Atwood was thinking of the lyric "devil with the blue dress on" when she picked the colour for the wives' status uniform. Or maybe she was parodying Royal Blue...

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I will let you know when I have tea with her. lol