Aniline Black -- Ursula Base (Yak Sock) dracula library-obsessed All Souls trilogy by

library-obsessed All Souls trilogy by Deborah Harkness

Perkins was trying to synthesize quinine - and that accidental discovery set off a giant Victorian wave of mauve everything

An apocalyptic circuitboard green speckled with stony shadows and overgrowth

most books are outlawed and any contraband texts must be burned by fireman like Guy Montag

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Aniline Black -- Ursula Base (Yak Sock) dracula library-obsessed All Souls trilogy byA deep violet black that takes its name from a pioneering synthetic pigment used in printing and dyeing. In the 1860s Mr. J . Lightfoot brought us a blacker black after studying the oxidation of new compound, aniline. Aniline purple had been accidentally created a few decades earlier while student Willam H. Perkins was trying to synthesize quinine and that accidental discovery set off a giant Victorian wave of mauve everything. In this rich black