I have been writing with a vile old pen the whole week, which is excessively ungallant. The fault is in the Quill. I have mended it and still it is very much inclin’d to make blind e’s. However these last lines are in a much better style of penmanship though a little disfigured by the smear of black currant jelly, which has made a little mark on one of the Pages of Brown’s Ben Jonson, the very best book he has. I have lick’d it but it remains very purple. I did not know whether to say purple or blue, so in the mixture of the thought wrote purplue which may be an excellent name for a colour made up of those two, and would suit well to start next spring.– John Keats
This is like the funniest thing in the world to me for so many reasons
- noted Romantic poet complaining about his pen being leaky like a petulant two year old
- also spilling jelly on his friends book
- and immediately trying to cover it up by LICKING IT #relatable
- “purplue”
- indigo, john
- the word you are looking for is ‘indigo’