Pink possession
Mid Mod Pam on Jul 28 2008 at 7:59 am | Filed under: pink bathrooms
In her comment on SaveThePinkBathrooms.com, g contributed what she thinks “is the most amazing description of a pink bathroom in all of English literature, from A. S. Byatt’s novel Possession.” This gave me an excuse to make a Wordle, fun for the whole family. Thanks, g!
To read the complete passage…
“The bathroom was a long narrow rectangle, space saving, coloured like sugared almonds. The fitments were a strong pink, tinged with a dusky greyish tone. The tiled floor was a greyish violet. With little bunches of ghostly Madonna lilies - they were of Italian design - on certain tiles, not all.These tiles extended halfway up the walls, where they met a paisley vinyl paper crawling with busy suckered globules, octopods, sea-slugs, in very bright purple and pink. There were toning ceramic fitments, in dusty pink pottery, a lavatory-paper holder, a tissue holder, a toothmug on a plate like those huge African lip-decorations, a scallop-shell holding pristine ovoids of purple and pink soap. The slatted, wipe-clean vinyl blinds represented a pink dawn with rose-tinged bulbous cumuli. The candlewick bath-mat, with its hide-like rubber backing, was lavender-coloured and so was the candlewick crescent snugly clutching the lavatory pedestal and the lavatory lid. On the top of this, alert for house-sounds, and urgently concentrating, perched Professor Mortimer P. Cropper. It was 3:00 A.M.”
g concludes: I think that description is hysterically funny and wonderful, and you being a lover of pink bathrooms, I hope you like it too!
