Literature
Rainbows Without Purple
That little girl, she was always drawing rainbows. Though the shape always changed slightly with each new picture, the general quality remained the same: six arching lines, growing smaller and smaller with each passing of the pencil, would appear on the once-blank canvas. Sometimes clouds would bolster the ends of the rainbows; sometimes the colors would stand alone in the sea of white.
When she colored her creations, only five of the typical six rainbow colors would be invited onto the page: every color but purple.
Some people thought it strange, the lack of violet on the paper, others shrugged in passing, rationalizing that since purple