Eric Russell. OSA (№ 227298)

Unless he asks a lot from life? It would be quite staged a glittering hall of mirrors, a Golden throne, he is on the throne, around flatterers, sycophants... what is this filthy Sirian pit, mortal cold, he painted in a purple color - it's too close to the opposite extreme.
He had never asked much of life and would have been quite satisfied merely to sprawl on a golden throne and be fawned upon by sycophants. To be dropped down a Sirian-dug hole, dead cold and dyed purple, was to take things too much to the opposite extreme.