more on pyn&larr

[Jody Keith Gilbert]

Further to my post about the Pynchon quotation on the Larroquette
show:

    I dream that I have found us both again,
    With spring so many strangers' lives away,
    And we, so free,
    Out walking by the sea,
    With someone else's paper words to say....
    
    They took us at the gates of green return,
    Too lost by then to stop, and ask them whyQ
    Do children meet again?
    Does any trace remain, 
    Along the superhighways of July?


and the other instance of "green return":

    Reception tonight is perfect, the *green return*
    [* * mine] "fine-grained as a baby's skin,"
    confirms Spyros ("Spider") Telangiecstasis,
     Radarman 2nd Class. 

green return in the song/poem has some connection with the
often-wished-for-but-never-acheived return to an idyllic state,
metaphically spring-like perhaps, esp. in light of 

                     THE LAST GREEN AND MAGENTA

        The Heath grows green and magenta in all directions, earth and
heather, coming of
    age--
        No. It was spring.

Viking p749.

Which invokes another return, the ultimate return to anhiliation such
as in the rocket's return to earth.

But what really confuses me is how this might connect with the green
return as in radar.

Any thoughts?

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