{"id":1489,"date":"2004-11-01T12:55:06","date_gmt":"2004-11-01T10:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/misc.hansilinderoth.net\/?p=1489"},"modified":"2022-11-02T13:06:09","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T11:06:09","slug":"kerkouanes-purpur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/misc.hansilinderoth.net\/?p=1489","title":{"rendered":"Kerkouanes purpur"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1489 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/misc.hansilinderoth.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/KERKOUANE-2004-2-WEB-scaled.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1658\" src=\"https:\/\/misc.hansilinderoth.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/KERKOUANE-2004-2-WEB-scaled.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/misc.hansilinderoth.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/KERKOUANE-2004-2-WEB-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/misc.hansilinderoth.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/KERKOUANE-2004-2-WEB-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/misc.hansilinderoth.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/KERKOUANE-2004-2-WEB-768x497.jpg 768w, https:\/\/misc.hansilinderoth.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/KERKOUANE-2004-2-WEB-1536x995.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/misc.hansilinderoth.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/KERKOUANE-2004-2-WEB-2048x1326.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/misc.hansilinderoth.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/KERKOUANE-2004-2-WEB-1200x777.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/misc.hansilinderoth.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/KERKOUANE-2004-2-WEB-600x389.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Jag stiger in genom den s\u00f6dra porten. Till h\u00f6ger finns stora gropar i marken. I dem tippades sn\u00e4ckorna f\u00f6r att d\u00f6, d\u00e4refter utvanns den beryktade tyriska purpurn ur den ruttnande soppan. Man m\u00e5ste allts\u00e5 f\u00f6rest\u00e4lla sig att denna sagolikt vackra plats genomfors av en oerh\u00f6rd stank. \u00c5t v\u00e4nster, g\u00e5r medsols. Staden har delvis fallit ned i havet. F\u00f6r att h\u00e5lla den kvar har en v\u00e5gbrytare av betong rests mot vattnet. Stark fr\u00e5nlandsvind, en makal\u00f6s horisont\u2014diset \u00e4r bl\u00e4ndande\u2014d\u00e4r kunde gott och ont projiceras: nya landam\u00e4ren f\u00f6r kommers eller en fiende med o\u00f6vervinnerliga \u00f6rlogskrafter. Genom staden. Golvens abstrakta mosaiker minner om porfyr. Stannar inf\u00f6r baden: vackra sittbadkar i sm\u00e5, privata, kammare, utf\u00f6rda i en anda helt olik romarnas. Vidare, strax d\u00e4rp\u00e5: Tv\u00e5 oxar betar i v\u00e4rldsarvet. \u201cAlep!\u201d h\u00e4lsar jag. En av dem lyfter p\u00e5 huvudet och bligar, den andra l\u00e5ter bli.<\/p>\n<p>Andra varvet. \u00c5ter p\u00e5 v\u00e5gbrytaren. Nu ser jag purpurn. Den ligger d\u00e4rute i havet, en ljusvilla, men verklig likafullt. Purpurns chim\u00e4r, eller ska jag s\u00e4ga dess Id\u00e9 eller <em>Ur<\/em>, flyter alldeles utanf\u00f6r purpurkokarnas stad. I det gamla hemlandet i Orienten, hundratals \u00e5r innan Kerkouane grundas, s\u00e5g f\u00f6rf\u00e4derna samma sak. De tjusades och ville f\u00e5nga f\u00e4rgen i tyger. Om det var en slump eller resultatet av aktivt s\u00f6kande vet ingen, men de fann strax purpurns f\u00e4rdmedel: Sn\u00e4ckan Murex.<\/p>\n<p>Vad vill jag s\u00e4ga med detta? Att det var ett egendomligt \u00f6gonblick, element\u00e4rt och klart. P\u00e5 en liten yta, s\u00e5 avgr\u00e4nsad att den kan kallas teatral, s\u00e5g jag dr\u00f6mmen och dr\u00f6mmens realisering: Purpurn i havet och stengroparna f\u00f6r sn\u00e4ckor i staden. Jag erfor en s\u00e4llsynt stark f\u00f6rnimmelse av den outgrundliga alkemi som st\u00e4ndigt p\u00e5g\u00e5r mellan v\u00e4rld och medvetande; den f\u00f6rvandlingarnas procession fr\u00e5n intryck till transport till f\u00e4rg, i vilken purpurn f\u00f6rblev en konstant.<\/p>\n<p>Purpurns v\u00e4g genom ljus, sn\u00e4cka, tyg<br \/>\n\u2014purpurns metafor gjord sinnlig\u2014<br \/>\ndet \u00e4r allt.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Rev.2022 \/2004<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jag stiger in genom den s\u00f6dra porten. Till h\u00f6ger finns stora gropar i marken. I dem tippades sn\u00e4ckorna f\u00f6r att d\u00f6, d\u00e4refter utvanns den beryktade tyriska purpurn ur den ruttnande soppan. Man m\u00e5ste allts\u00e5 f\u00f6rest\u00e4lla sig att denna sagolikt vackra plats genomfors av en oerh\u00f6rd stank. \u00c5t v\u00e4nster, g\u00e5r medsols. Staden har delvis fallit ned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[42,5,26],"class_list":["post-1489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-text","tag-antiken-antiquity","tag-prosa","tag-zoon","missing-thumbnail"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/misc.hansilinderoth.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/misc.hansilinderoth.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/misc.hansilinderoth.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/misc.hansilinderoth.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/misc.hansilinderoth.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1489"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/misc.hansilinderoth.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1509,"href":"https:\/\/misc.hansilinderoth.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions\/1509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/misc.hansilinderoth.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/misc.hansilinderoth.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/misc.hansilinderoth.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}