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Blue is the sky, the sea, a god's eye, a devil's tail, a birth, a strangulation, a virgin's cloak, a monkey's ass. It's a butterfly, a bird, a spicy joke, the saddest song, the brightest day. Christopher Moore "Sacre Bleu"
	Это синий негустой Иней над моей плитой. Это сизый зимний дым Мглы над именем моим. Николоз Бараташвили или скорее Борис Пастернак
Blue is beauty, not truth. "true blue" is a ruse, a rhyme; it's there, than it's not. Blue is a deaply sneaky color. Снова Мур

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"The translation of sacre bleu is sacred blue," says Moore. "In medieval times, the church said that if you are going to portray the Virgin Mary's cloak, it has to be in a certain shade of blue. And that blue must be ultramarine, because ultramarine blue is permanent. It doesn't go black or fade as organic colors do. And that is made essentially from crushed lapis lazuli, which is only available in Afghanistan. If you think about the 11th and 12th century, trying to get a stone from Afghanistan to Europe, for years and right up into the 19th century, was more valuable, weight for weight, than gold."
http://www.npr.org/2012/03/31/149542710/art-mystery-and-posh-pigments-in-sacre-bleu

Кстати об NPR (National Public Radio). Им я обязана знакомством с Чавелой Варгас и Гари Штейнгартом. А вот сегодня услышала о новой книге Мура, которая появится в магазинах 3-го апреля.