If you want to see a real redundant purpleness effect just visit the NYU area.
I was wondering that myself, dontcry. I think it might have been the purpleness that made the armchair redundant, i.e. in Wharton's (or the protagonist's) opinion purpleness renders armchairs redundant, but to be honest I'm stumped.
We should ask The Oracle.
Was the armchair redundant because it was purple among bric-a-brac and furbelow or because there were many purple armchairs about?
...among the bric-a-brac and furbelows, he found Miss Painter seated in a redundant purple armchair... - Edith Wharton, The Reef
If you want to see a real redundant purpleness effect just visit the NYU area.
I was wondering that myself, dontcry. I think it might have been the purpleness that made the armchair redundant, i.e. in Wharton's (or the protagonist's) opinion purpleness renders armchairs redundant, but to be honest I'm stumped.
We should ask The Oracle.
Was the armchair redundant because it was purple among bric-a-brac and furbelow or because there were many purple armchairs about?
...among the bric-a-brac and furbelows, he found Miss Painter seated in a redundant purple armchair...
- Edith Wharton, The Reef