Life Without The Boring Bits by McCullough Colleen

Author:McCullough, Colleen [McCullough, Colleen]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Harper Collins, Inc.
Published: 2011-10-31T13:00:00+00:00

Sepia has crept in everywhere. There used to be an avant-garde little skyscraper on the North Sydney skyline, a building much beloved by many. It was like a stack of children’s blocks, each one a sheet of glass framed in brilliant orange. Then at the commencement of the third millennium, it got a face-lift, and turned from orange to sepia-beige. What a blight! What chicken-hearted cowardice! The world was suddenly a drabber place. For that orange-rimmed building was very good of its kind, it adorned modern architecture as so much modern architecture doesn’t.

Sepia tones indicate a loss of hope, of optimism, of joy, but in a defeated, passionless way; they belong to bureaucrats and timid souls, to people with feet in a rut and tunnel vision. In the 1950s and 1960s the world genuinely thought that there was a good chance of massive nuclear holocaust; the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament flourished. Yet that world was stuffed with color. What’s happened in the meantime?

Too many people on the planet. Terrorism. Cipherdom. A sense of no new worlds to conquer. Climates of fear and mental depression breed sepia tones. No one wants to stand out from the crowd, best illustrated by the black dress for women. Black is sepia carried to the ultimate degree, for black is the color that is no color at all. Walk into a black-tie reception, and you walk into a sea of black, black, black. Indistinguishable targets for assassins, crazies, bores.

And so my essay dwindles down; inevitable, when the subject is a neutral palette. Climax is negated, drama is defused.

Oh, but I would like my orange building back!

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