She switches to the backstroke after ten laps. Ten more and she rolls over again; breaststroke. She has waterproof headphones and an audiobook going.
"I'm on the digest email list for open-access lectures that Purple Brain puts out. They don't check if you're purple."
"It's a purple-oriented website for sorta - continuing or supplemental education, for enrichment without worrying about whether it'll make money. They do the lecture list, and book reviews, and purple interest meetups in things like history and poetry and physics. They have enough purple supremacists working with them to make the website a kind of uncomfortable read but the lecture list is legit."
"There are supremacists in all the castes. The purple ones are the loudest about it, I think, probably because it's not that threatening to anyone in power if purples come by a policy opinion that is unlikely to get broader traction."
"Well the greens are all like 'we're the smartest, we should rule everything' but no one takes those seriously, we can't even agree on economics—"
"We were just having an exchange wondering if there was any listening-to-economists low hanging fruit out there."
"This isn't an econ lecture, it's a history lecture which happens to be about currency!"
"All I've had formally is Basic Finance and the Bookmaking elective, but I read a lot."