great post about livid.. i too think of it as being a deep, dark red..

i know the word from cop shows (all you Law & Order fans do too) the cops and the corninors are always talking about the lividity of a corpes.. which i always thought was the deep, bruised like discoloration on the bottom of the corpes, where the blood had settled, not the pale grey, leaden color on top, the was drained of blood.

to be livid, was to be angry enough to be flushed, red faces-- almost blue faces.. with pulsing blue veins visible.


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