A Tale of Two Tubs
From all that has gone before you would think that Lilliputians were all alike. This however is not true- they were alike only in that they all disliked women- they were united by this common hatred against Lilliputian females, but their unity ended just there and the differences appeared grotesque from there on.
The differences could be deduced from their dresses- in fact there was a common saying amongst them: a man’s dress is a map of his mind. Another version of the same was “the hair on the head, the vest on the chest are pigmented by the gene pool in the cell”.
The meaning of these wise quotes of lilliput folks would be made clear in a while. For lilliputs it was birth determined that women wore/were black curtains. Similarly, other sartorial laws were so strictly followed that the habit looked not just like a Lilliputian habit but inherited property. Lilliputs called their sartorial laws as Sartorlillys – the sartorlillys were responsible for the many colour that lilliputs sported. The lilliput world would have been black and bleak but for these sartorlillies.
A riot of colours occurred from time to time when vested interests rose to extreme. Lilliputs on such days were 'dressed to kill'. This riot featured tearing the vests or chopping and snipping off of hair of the other sects. There were those lilliputs who wore green vests and those who wore Orange vests: saffron and green were considered natural colours by those who had the particular vests.
Newborns in Lilliputland were baptized either in the tub containing green waters or in the tub of orange juices The oranges, however, thought that greens were fake and vice versa. Among the greens there were two shades and one shade always asserted originality claiming that there was neither the need nor desire for any derivatives- “ Colour was one they claimed”…. “Green was the only true colour”. “The ‘such n such’ shade of the green was the only true colour and no other”. They wanted the whole lilliputland to be green- the Wizard of Oz being inspired by them had tried building an emerald city but after a while he gave up upon it and settled for green goggles for the inhabitants, the visitors and himself”.
The Lilliputian had never read of Oz but Oz had heard of them form Gulliver who wrote the great Gulliver’s Travels. The Orange lovers were different –while greens wanted all to wear their specific green the Oranges wanted only a handful to wear the specific Orange; they wanted the rest to be called Orange- deprived. They had a theory which was that Orange people were of four types – type1 could wear orange, type 2 and 3 could sit with orange- wearers and share some glory, type 3 could only adore type 1,2,3 from a distance and wait till next time. If they waited well upon them the next time could approach sometime. True many people like chameleons to suit their self also changed colours after conversion ceremonies also known as vest “dyeing” functions, but throughout they were dubbed turncoats and their new vests always had some vestiges of the old one which they couldn’t properly disown.
There were other colours of which Red most stood out- this acquired colour had the patronage of whosoever had nothing more than a vest or else “no hidden chest within the vest”- the reds believed that everybody should have equal sized chests or no chests at all.
There were those that went around with no clothing on- these were the lowest of low creatures as they refused to fit into any vest available to them- obviously they were called misfits or social activists. They were so confused that they didn’t know which colour to wear although their birth left nothing to doubt. They were too much hot in the brain, so much so that they tore away their clothes themselves. This heretic and nudist sect asserted, “ the vests were borrowed but Lilliputians were born alike naked.” They talked about lilliputanity, which they said was superior to any colour but nobody bothered much about what they said. This ‘lilliputanity’ has over the ages rightly become a term of abuse. This quite irrelevant way of thinking, dressing or rather pretext for undressing, even then, did not find much favour with the true philosophers of lilliputland. Not withstanding the hullabuloo created by lilliputanity sects colour riots were run.
After colour riots the laundry men and dyers on engaged sides would come and take charge of the streets. Lilliputs knew it well that spilt blood always turned red and black after a while, so it was the practice of Lilliputian dyers and launderers, after every colour riot to restore the original colour by dyeing it in the same.
It is a shame that we have learnt nothing so far and we let the same red blood of humanity appear on the streets while being aware that the true colour was never red but some other and only and original colour of which properly speaking no other complement exists. Let our dyers procure the two tubs talked about our confusions would be clarified a little.
From all that has gone before you would think that Lilliputians were all alike. This however is not true- they were alike only in that they all disliked women- they were united by this common hatred against Lilliputian females, but their unity ended just there and the differences appeared grotesque from there on.
The differences could be deduced from their dresses- in fact there was a common saying amongst them: a man’s dress is a map of his mind. Another version of the same was “the hair on the head, the vest on the chest are pigmented by the gene pool in the cell”.
The meaning of these wise quotes of lilliput folks would be made clear in a while. For lilliputs it was birth determined that women wore/were black curtains. Similarly, other sartorial laws were so strictly followed that the habit looked not just like a Lilliputian habit but inherited property. Lilliputs called their sartorial laws as Sartorlillys – the sartorlillys were responsible for the many colour that lilliputs sported. The lilliput world would have been black and bleak but for these sartorlillies.
A riot of colours occurred from time to time when vested interests rose to extreme. Lilliputs on such days were 'dressed to kill'. This riot featured tearing the vests or chopping and snipping off of hair of the other sects. There were those lilliputs who wore green vests and those who wore Orange vests: saffron and green were considered natural colours by those who had the particular vests.
Newborns in Lilliputland were baptized either in the tub containing green waters or in the tub of orange juices The oranges, however, thought that greens were fake and vice versa. Among the greens there were two shades and one shade always asserted originality claiming that there was neither the need nor desire for any derivatives- “ Colour was one they claimed”…. “Green was the only true colour”. “The ‘such n such’ shade of the green was the only true colour and no other”. They wanted the whole lilliputland to be green- the Wizard of Oz being inspired by them had tried building an emerald city but after a while he gave up upon it and settled for green goggles for the inhabitants, the visitors and himself”.
The Lilliputian had never read of Oz but Oz had heard of them form Gulliver who wrote the great Gulliver’s Travels. The Orange lovers were different –while greens wanted all to wear their specific green the Oranges wanted only a handful to wear the specific Orange; they wanted the rest to be called Orange- deprived. They had a theory which was that Orange people were of four types – type1 could wear orange, type 2 and 3 could sit with orange- wearers and share some glory, type 3 could only adore type 1,2,3 from a distance and wait till next time. If they waited well upon them the next time could approach sometime. True many people like chameleons to suit their self also changed colours after conversion ceremonies also known as vest “dyeing” functions, but throughout they were dubbed turncoats and their new vests always had some vestiges of the old one which they couldn’t properly disown.
There were other colours of which Red most stood out- this acquired colour had the patronage of whosoever had nothing more than a vest or else “no hidden chest within the vest”- the reds believed that everybody should have equal sized chests or no chests at all.
There were those that went around with no clothing on- these were the lowest of low creatures as they refused to fit into any vest available to them- obviously they were called misfits or social activists. They were so confused that they didn’t know which colour to wear although their birth left nothing to doubt. They were too much hot in the brain, so much so that they tore away their clothes themselves. This heretic and nudist sect asserted, “ the vests were borrowed but Lilliputians were born alike naked.” They talked about lilliputanity, which they said was superior to any colour but nobody bothered much about what they said. This ‘lilliputanity’ has over the ages rightly become a term of abuse. This quite irrelevant way of thinking, dressing or rather pretext for undressing, even then, did not find much favour with the true philosophers of lilliputland. Not withstanding the hullabuloo created by lilliputanity sects colour riots were run.
After colour riots the laundry men and dyers on engaged sides would come and take charge of the streets. Lilliputs knew it well that spilt blood always turned red and black after a while, so it was the practice of Lilliputian dyers and launderers, after every colour riot to restore the original colour by dyeing it in the same.
It is a shame that we have learnt nothing so far and we let the same red blood of humanity appear on the streets while being aware that the true colour was never red but some other and only and original colour of which properly speaking no other complement exists. Let our dyers procure the two tubs talked about our confusions would be clarified a little.
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