'The Maestro' (colors)

"His desk was littered with broken almond shells and his favourite books; Ovid's Tristia, The Georgics, Walden, Pigafetta's Voyage of Magellan, Leaves of Grass, The Poem of Martín Ferro, The Purple Land and Blake's Songs of Innocence, of which he was especially fond.
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It stopped raining and I came to leave. Bees hummed around the poet's hives. His apricots were ripening the colour of a pale sun. Clouds of thistledown drifted across the view and in a field there were some fleecy white sheep."
Chatwin em In Patagonia.