Purple Prose (29 page)

Introduction

John Edmonds,
Tyrian or Imperial Purple Dye: The Mystery of Imperial Purple Dye
, Historic Dye Series, John Edmonds, UK, 2000.

Elisabeth West FitzHugh and Lynda A. Zycherman, ‘A Purple Barium Copper Silicate Pigment from Early China,'
Studies in Conservation
, 37(3), 1992, pp. 145–154.

John Gage,
Colour and Meaning: Art, Science and Symbolism
, Thames & Hudson, UK, 2000.

Simon Garfield,
Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color that Changed the World
, W. W. Norton & Co., New York, 2002.

Laurence Sterne,
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
. Wordsworth Editions Ltd, UK, 1996.

William Harper Twelvetrees, ed., Tasmanian Department of Mines,
Stichtite: A New Tasmanian Mineral
. John Vail Government Printer, Hobart, 1914.
http://www.mrt.tas.gov.au/mrtdoc/dominfo/download/GSREC02_OLD/GSREC02.pdf

The Things I Cannot Say

Louisa May Alcott,
Little Women
, Abbey Classics, Murrays Children's Books, UK, 1978.

Louisa May Alcott,
Good Wives
, Priory Books, Bridlington.

Simone de Beauvoir,
The Second Sex
, trans. Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier, Vintage, London, 2009.

Rebecca Goldstein,
Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity
, Schocken Books, New York, 2009.

Katherine Mansfield,
The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield 1903–1917
, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1984.

Maiden Aunts

1
Virginia Nicholson,
Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived Without Men After the First World War,
Penguin, London, 2008, pp. 28–29.

Blue Meat and Purple Language

1
‘Blue Meat and Purple Language',
The Northern Miner,
23 October, 1919, p. 2.
http://ttrove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/82750089

2
‘At the Dance, Deep Purple Language. Trouble at Castlereagh',
The Nepean Times,
10 November, 1928, p. 1.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/100922157

3
‘Said Language Became Purple When He Quarreled with Wife',
Recorder
, 21 January, 1938, p. 1.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/95939839

4
R. Stephens, J. Atkins and A. Kingston, ‘Swearing as a Response to Pain',
Neuroreport,
August 5, 20(12), 2009, pp. 1056–60.
http://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19590391

5
William Shakespeare,
The Merry Wives of Windsor,
Act IV, Scene 1.

6
William Shakespeare,
Henry V,
Act IV, Scene 4.

7
William Shakespeare,
Othello
, Act I, Scene 1.

8
Virginia Woolf,
Mrs Dalloway,
Oxford Univerity Press, Oxford, 2008, p. 63.

Into the Whipstick

1
Lisa Baraitser,
Maternal Encounters: The Ethics of Interruption
. Routledge, London, 2009. See Chapter 4, ‘Maternal Interruptions'. Also see an interesting discussion of Baraitser by Petra Bueskens and Julie Rodgers, and a new essay by Lisa Baraitser in Petra Bueskens,
Mothering and Psychoanalysis: Clinical, Sociological and Feminist Perspectives
, Demeter Press, Canada, 2009.

2
Susie Orbach and Luise Echenbaum,
What Do Women Want?
, HarperCollins, London, 1994.

Velvet

1
St Paul's Cathedral website.
http://www.stpauls.co.uk/history-collections/history/jubilee/1935-george-v-silver

2
Drusilla Modjeska, ‘Memoir Australia', in
Timepieces
, Picador, Sydney, 2002, p. 196.

3
Richard Holmes, ‘A Meander through Memory and Forgetting', in
Memory: An Anthology,
eds Harriet Harvey Wood and A. S. Byatt, Vintage, UK, 2009, p. 95.

4
Lloyd Jones,
A History of Silence
, Text, Melbourne, Vic., 2013, p. 40.

5
Adam Phillips, ‘The Forgetting Museum', in
Index on Censorship
, 34(2), 2005, pp. 34–37.

6
Endel Tulving, ‘Episodic Memory: from Mind to Brain', in
Annual Review of Psychology
, 53, 2002, pp. 1–25.

7
Adam Phillips, ‘The Forgetting Museum'.

Do You See What I See?

1
John Gage,
Colour in Art
, Thames & Hudson, London, 2006, p. 204.

2
ibid., p. 205.

3
Tracy Farr, ‘The Sound of One Man Dying', in
Another 100 NZ Short Short Stories
, ed. Graeme Lay, Tandem Press, Auckland, 1998, p. 139.

4
Tracy Farr, ‘The Blind Astronomer', in
The Best New Zealand Fiction
Volume 1, ed. Fiona Kidman, Vintage, Auckland, 2004, p. 27. First published in
Sport 28
, March 2002, pp. 135–142
http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz//tm/scholarly/tei-Ba28Spo-t1-body-d18.html

5
ibid., p. 28.

6
Simon Ings,
The Eye: A Natural History,
Bloomsbury, London, 2007, p. 228.

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ibid., p. 219.

8
John Gage,
Colour and Meaning: Art, Science and Symbolism,
Thames & Hudson, London, 2000, p. 136.

9
John Gage,
Colour and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction,
Thames & Hudson, London, 1995, p. 167.

10
Ings,
The Eye
, p. 213.

11
Philip Hensher, ‘A. S. Byatt, The Art of Fiction No. 168',
The Paris Review
, No. 159, 2001.
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/481/the-art-of-fiction-no-168-a-s-byatt

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Gage,
Colour and Meaning
, p. 72.

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Gage,
Colour in Art
, p. 147.

14
Gage,
Colour and Culture
, p. 80.

15
Gage,
Colour and Meaning
, p. 69.

16
ibid.

17
ibid.

18
Gage,
Colour and Culture
, p. 140.

19
ibid.

20
Gage,
Colour and Meaning
, p. 140.

21
Farr, ‘The Blind Astronomer', p. 27.

22
ibid., p. 30.

23
ibid., pp. 27–30.

24
Patrick Trevor-Roper,
The World Through Blunted Sight: Inquiry into the Influence of Defective Vision on Art and Character, r
evised edition, Souvenir Press, London, 1997.

25
Gage,
Colour and Culture
, p. 192.

26
Ings,
The Eye
, p. 193.

27
Margaret Visser,
The Way We Are,
Penguin, London, 1994, p. 237.

28
Gage,
Colour and Meaning
, p. 263.

29
ibid., p. 266.

30
Farr, ‘The Sound of One Man Dying', p. 139.

31
Margaret Visser,
The Way We Are
, p. 239.

32
Mark Seymour, ‘Do You See What I See', lyrics,
Human Frailty
, Mushroom Music, 1987.

33
Paul Kelly, ‘I'd Rather Go Blind',
Words and Music
, Mushroom Music, 1998. In fact, in ‘C90', the companion piece to ‘I'd Rather Go Blind' in
How to Make Gravy
(Penguin, Melbourne, 2010, p. 238), Kelly indicates that he is referencing ‘Etta James's aching “I'd Rather Go Blind” '.

34
Farr, ‘The Blind Astronomer', p. 30.

35
Ings,
The Eye
, p. 13.

36
Farr, ‘The Blind Astronomer', p. 26.

37
ibid.

38
ibid., p. 30.

39
Eva Isaksson, ‘E-Accessible Astronomy Resources',
ASP Conference Series,
No. 432, 2010.
http://arxiv.org/abs/1006.1803v1

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Farr, ‘The Blind Astronomer', p. 32.

Mary

1
Virginia Woolf,
The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume 4: 1931–35
, ed. Anne Olivier Bell, Hogarth Press, London, 1977, p. 24.

2
Iain Sinclair,
Edge of the Orison: In the Traces of John Clare's ‘Journey Out of Essex',
Penguin Books, London, 2006, p. 23.

3
Indebted to Nicolas Abraham's and Mária Török's notion of the crypt as developed in their book
The Wolf Man's Magic Word: A Cryptonymy,
trans. Nicholas Rand, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2005.

4
Dorothy Hewett,
Greenhouse,
Big Smoke Books, Sydney, 1979, p. 40.

5
Dorothy Hewett, ‘The Golden Mean' in
Dorothy Hewett: Collected Poems
, ed. William Grono, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Fremantle, WA, 1995, p. 408.

The Trouble with Purple

1
Lewis Carroll, Chapter 5, ‘Wool and Water',
Through the Looking Glass
. Macmillan, ebook, 2014, np.

2
National Geographic Society,
The Genographic Project
, 2015.
http://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/about/

3
Cassandra Franklin-Barbajosa, ‘In the Wake of the Phoenicians: DNA study reveals a Phoenician-Maltese link',
National Geographic Magazine
(online extra), October 2004.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0410/feature2/online_extra.html

4
Marcus Vitruvius,
The Ten Books on Architecture
, Book VII, Ch. XIII, par. 1, trans. Morris Hickey Morgan, Dover Publications, New York, 1960, pp. 119–120.

The Red and the Blue

1
Adam McNicol, ‘Anytime, Anywhere Dockers Claim Famous Finals Win at Geelong', AFL website.
http://www.afl.com.au/news/2013-09-07/dockers-show-their-steel

2
AFL, ‘Respect and Responsibility: What is the Respect and Responsibility Policy?', AFL Community, 2014.
http://aflcommunityclub.com.au/index.php?id=750

3
AFL, ‘Female Football', AFL Community, 2014.
http://aflcommunityclub.com.au/index.php?id=495

4
Anna Krien,
Night Games: Sex, Power and Sport
, Black Inc., Collingwood, Vic., 2013, ebook.

5
Fremantle Dockers, ‘Sirens Membership', Fremantle Dockers website, 2014.
http://membership.fremantlefc.com.au/packages-prices/purple-army

6
Krien,
Night Games
, Loc. 1896.

7
Matt Price,
Way to Go: Sadness, Euphoria and the Fremantle Dockers
, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Fremantle, WA, 2003.

8
Krien,
Night Games
, Loc. 1918.

9
Rosie Duffy, ‘Margaret's Century',
Fremantle Dockers News &Media
, October 31 2014.
http://www.fremantlefc.com.au/news/2014-10-31/margarets-milestone

10
Les Everett,
Fremantle Dockers: An Illustrated History
, Slattery Media Group, Richmond, Vic., 2014, p. 21.

11
Gervase A. Haimes,
Organizational Culture and Identity: A Case Study from the Australian Football League
, PhD thesis, Victoria University, 2006, pp. 154–155.

12
Mark Evans quoted in Michael Warner,
Herald Sun
, ‘AFL Set to Launch Gay Pride Game to Tackle Homophobia During NAB Challenge', 4 March, 2015.
www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/aflset-to-launch-gay-pride-game-to-tackle-homophobia-during-nab-challenge/story-fni5f22o-1227248255109

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Callum Twomey, ‘Dockers, Swans to Host NAB Challenge Pride Match', 5 March, 2015, AFL website.
http://www.afl.com.au/news/2015-03-05/afl-announces-pride-match

Purple Impressions

1
John Russell letter to Tom Roberts, Winter 1890–91, from Bernard Smith,
Documents on Art and Taste in Australia: The Colonial Period, 1770
–
1914,
Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1975, p. 201, quoted in Elena Taylor,
Australian Impressionists in France
, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic., 2013, p. 64.

2
‘Colorants: Pigments versus Dyes', Lecture 12, PowerPoint presentation, 2001.
http://www2.fiu.edu/~gardinal/class_syllabi/IDS4290%20FALL2010/Lecture%2012%20colored%20stuff.pdf

3
Michael Lloyd and Michael Desmond,
European and American Paintings and Sculptures 1870–1970 in the Australian National Gallery
, ANG, Canberra, 1992, p. 72.
http://nga.gov.au/internationalCatalogue/Detail.cfm?ViewID=1&MnuID=1&GalID=ALL&SubVie wID=2&IRN=29073

4
Johannes Itten,
The Art of Color: The Subjective Experience and Objective Rationale of Color,
trans. Ernst van Haagen, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1960, reprinted 1973, p. 72.

5
Luigina De Grandis,
Theory and Use of Color
, trans. John Gilbert, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1986, p. 22.

6
Andrew Brown, ‘Newton and Goethe on Colour' in
Homo Discens Project
.
http://www.homodiscens.com/home/ways/perspicax/colr_vision_sub/art_colour_theory

7
Itten,
The Art of Color
, p. 13.

8
Liane Collot d'Herbois,
Light, Darkness and Colour in Painting Therapy,
Floris Books, Edinburgh, 1993, reprinted 2000, p. 239.

9
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
Theory of Colours
, trans. Charles Lock Eastlake, MIT Press, Cambridge, 1810, reprinted 1982, p. 141.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Colours#Influence_on_the_arts

10
Patricia Sloane, ed.,
Primary Sources: Selected Writings on Color from Aristotle to Albers,
Design Press, New York, 1991, p. xvi.