Tuesday, February 23, 2010

faded blue

Well, actually nothing could be brighter than this blue rose. I brought some faded funeral roses over to the apartment to give them an extra few days. But the blue rose! Is there anything faker than a blue rose? And why? In Alice in Wonderland they were painting the roses red, but blue?
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Debra She Who Seeks said...

When I see blue roses, I always think of Tennessee Williams' play "The Glass Menagerie." There's a scene where Laura says that for years she misheard the word "pleurisy" as "blue roses" and thought it meant something beautiful and rare.

February 23, 2010 at 11:04 p.m.
Debra She Who Seeks said...

I doublechecked my memory on Wikipedia and found out that what Laura misheard was "pleurosis," another term for "pleurisy." It's easier to see how she got "blue roses" out of that!

February 24, 2010 at 2:07 p.m.
Laura said...

Fake absolutely, but still, it's a very pretty shade of blue.

February 24, 2010 at 3:56 p.m.

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