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440 pages, Paperback
First published November 30, 2021
"Women in Red were much on the mind of whoever wrote the Book of Revelations, between 60 and 95CE. The elusive author probablt wasn't John the Evangelist, but they certainly believed that red stood for damnation. The Whore of Babylon is 'sitting upon a scarlet beast' 'arrayed in purple and scarlet' and drunk 'on the blood of saints' and 'the blood of the martyrs of Jesus'. In the West, scarlet has, at different times, been culturally synonymous with prostitution, Satanism and adultery - the offence for which Hawthorne's protagonist Hester Prynne is ordered to wear the scarlet letter 'A'...
Possibly due to the lack of a biblical precedent, there is, as yet, no colour to identify men of easy virtue. "
"Yellow is a colour capable of charming God" - Vincent Van Gogh