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A Palette Connoisseur's Guide to Palettes[]
"Chapter 1: What is a Palette?
As the title of my tome suggests, I am a connoisseur of palettes, so it is most difficult for a palette enthusiast of my statue to explain what one is. However, for the less-educated readers, I shall try: A palette is a thing with different things on it. There. That is all I am giving you.
- From “A Palette Connoisseur’s Guide to Palettes,” by Hergo Zipolottio"
"Chapter 2: Cosmetic Palettes: For the Ladies
Any decent woman’s boudoir features a cosmetic palette, allowing her to combine various colors of cosmetic paint to achieve the desired color and effect. A typical example of a cosmetic palette includes a mortar and pestle for crushing various stiff materials, small wells for collection, and a large flat surface for various reasons. Typically these palettes are decorated with mythological or historical images on them. The truly serious woman has a palette with compartments to hold dry items for later use. It’s just proper."
"Chapter 3: Wine Palettes: Not Quite What you Think They Are
Any worthy noble or sophisticate has developed an advanced wine palette. Unlike most palettes, this one exists but in a man or woman’s own tongue, giving him or her the ability to taste the subtle difference in any aged spirit of a grape-derived persuasion. Is this wine earthy or is it fruity? Perhaps it has an aftertaste similar to a good roasted nut? A boorishly untrained tongue knows not, but a tongue with a sophisticated palette should be able to identify such things with ease, lest someone of my stature knock the glass out of such an undeserving person’s filthy hands."
"Chapter 4: Food Palettes: Also Not Quite What You’d Think, But If You Read the Previous Chapter, You’d Have a Better Idea
Do not turn up your nose at a foie gras or any sort of truffle presented before you, or you will be accused of not having a sophisticated food palette. You must taste things most uneducated people would find disgusting, such as a particularly odorous cheese, and develop a taste for it. You try many distinct flavors to get an appreciation of them in comparison. This is how you get taken seriously."
"Chapter 5: The Broken Palette: Not an Actual Palette
The Broken Palette is an extravagant social club for only the most ostentatious artists. These types tend to have a legion of rich patrons that afford their artistic transgressions. I once went in as a companion to a rather terrible but lucrative artist that shall remain nameless, and was shocked to see such equally ostentatious decorations such as food laid out according to color on an expansive round table, creating the effect of an artist’s palette which, unsurprisingly to me but surprisingly to you, is the subject of my next chapter."
"Chapter 6: A Painter’s Palette: In the Middle of the Book for a Reason
Readers may wonder why I placed the chapter on the painter’s palette so late in a book that teaches said reader about palettes. I have done this for a very good reason: so that you will read past the first chapter. Regardless, a palette is what artists use to choose colors as they paint. They mix colors like the fine lady with the cosmetic paint in order to achieve the perfect color for, perhaps, an ill-looking countenance or a lovely waterfall. Such things are important to artists and those with eyes."
"Chapter 7: Choosing the Correct Cosmetic Palette
Never pattern your choice in colors after the most popular person in court. That shall only paint you as a mere copycat to this wonderful person and you shall be laughed out of every room you’ll ever enter for the rest of your life. No self-respecting person should ever want that. Instead, choose colors that you think look good (of course, with some feedback from those in the know). And yes, my use of the word ‘paint’ in the first sentence was an intentional pun. Thank you for noticing."
"Chapter 8: The Decorative Palette
Those distinguished people we love so much tend to decorate their homes in a manner that is pleasurable to the eyes. Now, with this chapter, you too can be like the sophisticated. All it takes is contained in the following: choose a dominant color. Pastels tend to keep things light, which is good for parties. People say that dark reds are good for parlors, but I am not sure why this is. However, I cannot come with a reason to disagree."
"Chapter 9: Cosmetic Palettes as Decoration: Yes, You Should Be Doing This
There is a good reason that many cosmetic palettes come with decorations on them. That reason is so that you, the reader, may choose accordingly depending on how your boudoir is decorated. This, of course, is when a woman purchases her palette. Many women inherit their palettes from mothers, aunts, and grandmothers who have either died or grow weary of looking presentable. In such cases, you may have to dispose of said palette or, if you really must, redecorate your room according to your new, potentially hideous, palette."