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While his subjects get less and must ration,
For this royal excess is the fashion
"These rainbow interiors,"
He explains to inferiors,
"Best express my most decadent passion."
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First the yellow, then comes the purple chamber. Vincent Price lords it over Patrick Magee, Hazel Court and Jane Asher in Roger Corman's Masque of the Red Death. Image source: Dial V for Vintage.
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