- Sep 22, 2013
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This capitalism-fantasy parable was inspired by the perception-kaleidoscope film Crimson Peak.
Cheers,
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Philip was a house-painter who loved painting doors especially. His favorite color was red, and when he was given the order/permission to paint a house-door red, the job made him really happy and made him feel especially creative/skilled. Philip was himself intrigued by the 'metaphysical symbolism' of doors themselves --- how they served as entrance-ways and gates to other compartments or even realities. Philip remembered how Lewis Carroll wrote about the adventures of the precocious young girl Alice in a logic-confounded strange-place called Wonderland and her trying to choose between various 'doors of fate' to see where she would end up!
Philip got the commission one summer to paint the house of an eccentric millionaire who lived in Cape Cod. The millionaire wanted his whole house painted yellow but his front door painted red, so Philip was expectedly excited about doing the job. He worked diligently and was ahead of schedule when he finally got to the front-door, his last leg of the whole work. Philip brought a can of luscious crimson-red paint to paint the front-door. He began painting the door, but something bizarre started happening immediately. Philip started imagining the plight of the souls of the impoverished --- the homeless, the hungry, the disenfranchised, and the orphaned.
Philip realized that he was having this 'red-door nightmare,' since he was painting the house of an 'eccentric millionaire' who obviously reminded Philip of the cliched iconic 'capitalism fat-cats' that make the American Dream sometimes feel like a 'casino-venture.' Philip concluded that he started hallucinating the fears and pains of the impoverished while painting the millionaire's front-door a crimson-red because the front-door of the millionaire's house represented something potentially (and truly) challenging to the soul --- the 'idea' of unrequited aspirations for prosperity and fortune! Philip wrote in his diary (before he died), "Painting the millionaire's front-door crimson-red and imagining the faces of the impoverished made me think that capitalism gives rise to two 'spiritual forces' --- one, an angel of hope and ambition (perhaps the Statue of Liberty itself); but the other, a 'demon' of envy and loneliness (perhaps typified in an American criminal such as Al Capone or Ted Kaczynski)!"
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Cheers,
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Philip was a house-painter who loved painting doors especially. His favorite color was red, and when he was given the order/permission to paint a house-door red, the job made him really happy and made him feel especially creative/skilled. Philip was himself intrigued by the 'metaphysical symbolism' of doors themselves --- how they served as entrance-ways and gates to other compartments or even realities. Philip remembered how Lewis Carroll wrote about the adventures of the precocious young girl Alice in a logic-confounded strange-place called Wonderland and her trying to choose between various 'doors of fate' to see where she would end up!
Philip got the commission one summer to paint the house of an eccentric millionaire who lived in Cape Cod. The millionaire wanted his whole house painted yellow but his front door painted red, so Philip was expectedly excited about doing the job. He worked diligently and was ahead of schedule when he finally got to the front-door, his last leg of the whole work. Philip brought a can of luscious crimson-red paint to paint the front-door. He began painting the door, but something bizarre started happening immediately. Philip started imagining the plight of the souls of the impoverished --- the homeless, the hungry, the disenfranchised, and the orphaned.
Philip realized that he was having this 'red-door nightmare,' since he was painting the house of an 'eccentric millionaire' who obviously reminded Philip of the cliched iconic 'capitalism fat-cats' that make the American Dream sometimes feel like a 'casino-venture.' Philip concluded that he started hallucinating the fears and pains of the impoverished while painting the millionaire's front-door a crimson-red because the front-door of the millionaire's house represented something potentially (and truly) challenging to the soul --- the 'idea' of unrequited aspirations for prosperity and fortune! Philip wrote in his diary (before he died), "Painting the millionaire's front-door crimson-red and imagining the faces of the impoverished made me think that capitalism gives rise to two 'spiritual forces' --- one, an angel of hope and ambition (perhaps the Statue of Liberty itself); but the other, a 'demon' of envy and loneliness (perhaps typified in an American criminal such as Al Capone or Ted Kaczynski)!"
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