bounded mountains
oils transpiring off the eucalyptus trees is what gives the brindabella mountain range their characteristic purple hue. in the ancient world, purple was a hard-to-get colour and usually involved milking the mucus from murex snails to produce tyrian dyes - a precious, but limited resource, reserved for royalty, and controlled by strict sumptuary laws. the sky has no such qualms about conspicuous sumption!
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