Murex purple pigment has a historical, cultural and aesthetic value.
Old stuff that need our imagination to exist, like the fairies of the internet. Where is the art left when boring uniformization is the main purpose of the internet ? Fluid intelligence is a crucial cognitive ability that predicts key life outcomes across the lifespan, like murex is a metaphor for purple ink.
Imperial murex acquired a word-of-mouth following and remains an extraordinary dibromo-indigo mystery to this day.
