Originally posted by twilight
1) Older kids were on their way and would shortly arrive to add to the murder brunch and possibly one of them...say JAR or Melinda would stumble across the body...owwwwwww...
< Like I said, better them than him, and if he is going to kill or conspire in the murder/disposal of a body, do you think he cares what his older/other children go through? How could he be so callous yet so emotional?
2) Decomposing bodies detract from property value and he knew he would be having to sell that house...
<Then he must have known that the value had already decreased suffiently. Once again, here he seems so cold--just to turn around and care about the other children? Makes no sense...
And again, he could've simply said "hey Fleet, go check that room."
COLORS:
I have a book called The Secondary Colors, by Alexander Theroux. It is a fascinating read. Purple is associated with all sorts of things. Examples:
"Have you heard it asserted that pregnant women and people with thyroid malfunctions tend to perfer purple?" (p.160)
Same page: "menopause mauve".
Following page: association with leprosy - body color.
Oh, here's a great one -
"Purple is the color of grief, dead leaves, merciless pride, prison complexions, coffin silk, acne, funereal trappings (vestments, cortege, and so forth), ruin, the mark of hypodermic drug injections, wheals, varicose veins, oral lesions, blood blisters, welts, collapsed lungs, oxygen deprivation, and inevitable, enveloping death in a dying- or dead- body." (p.161-2)
OTOH "Purple is the magisterium. It is a color combining blue (spirituality and nobility) and red (courage and virility), and symbolizes, among other things, wit, intelligence, knowledge, religious devotion, sanctity, humility, temperance, sobriety - amethysts (from a- plus methyein, to be drunk) were once worn as an anti-alcoholic - penitence, and sorrow. (p. 107)
And on the first page Laura Markley is quoted as saying:
Aren't orange, purple and green like costumes made of felt, Munchkin colors?
But the true color you want to look into is not purple, but 'silvery' as in 'silvery' grey...right, John and Patsy?