the last book I ever read (Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, excerpt six)

from The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath:

The color scheme of the whole sanatorium seemed to be based on liver. Dark, glowering woodwork, burnt-brown leather chairs, walls that might once have been white but had succumbed under a spreading malady of mold or damp. A mottled brown linoleum sealed off the floor.