“Lying in bed would be an altogether
perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to
draw on the ceiling. This, however, is not generally a part of the domestic
apparatus on the premises. I think myself that the thing might be managed with
several pails of Aspinall and a broom. Only if one worked in a really sweeping
and masterly way, and laid on the color in great washes, it might drip down
again on one's face in floods of rich and mingled color like some strange fairy
rain; and that would have its disadvantages. I am afraid it would be necessary
to stick to black and white in this form of artistic composition. To that
purpose, indeed, the white ceiling would be of the greatest possible use; in
fact, it is the only use I think of a white ceiling being put to.”
--G. K. Chesterton
