Found

[ewx]

One brownpurple umbrella.

Comments

[crazyscot.livejournal.com]

If it's a shade of brown that could also be described as purple, then it's Vicky's, which she remembered halfway home...

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, now I come to look at it properly and without purply boots behind it the purpleness is more obvious.

[ex-lark-asc.livejournal.com]

Whoops. Clearly a sacrifice to the gods of frying-pan-related reprisal or something.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

You can drop by and pick it up some time l-)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

"A shade of brown that can also be described as purple" is depressingly lacking in instances. Though it looks awful on websites, I guess.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

"as a color, a shade of purple-grey"

[(Anonymous)]

Did you get that line from a book?

[ewx.livejournal.com]

It's a reference to The Flying Sorcerers, by Larry Niven and David Gerrold.

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you sooooo much for responding! I have been trying to remember the title of that book for years!!!