The Colour of Life; and other essays on things seen and heard

The Colour of Life, by Alice Meynell
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Title: The Colour of Life Author: Alice Meynell Release Date: March 14, 2005 Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) [eBook #1205]
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Transcribed from the 1897 John Lane edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk
THE COLOUR OF LIFE
Contents: The Colour of Life A Point Of Biography Cloud Winds of the World The Honours of Mortality At Monastery Gates Rushes and Reeds Eleonora Duse Donkey Races Grass A Woman in Grey Symmetry and Incident
The Illusion of Historic Time Eyes
THE COLOUR OF LIFE
Red has been praised for its nobility as the colour of life. But the true colour of life is not red. Red is the colour of violence, or of life broken open, edited, and published. Or if red is indeed the colour of life, it is so only on condition that it is not seen. Once fully visible, red is the colour of life violated, and in the act of betrayal and of waste. Red is the secret of life, and not the manifestation thereof. It is one of the things the value of which is secrecy, one of the talents that are to be hidden in a napkin. The true colour ...