black and white and green

[*jason p.g. martin*]

        I'm usually not one to go to much into color imagery in novels, but
CL49 has raised some questions for me in this regard.  Besides black and
white (which aren't really colors themselves, but the total of all colors
and the absence of any color), green is the only color that has a
continuing presence throughout the story.  I asked my thesis advisor what
he thought of this, and he said something like, "Um, I thought it
represented technology," or something equally ambiguous.  I guess I can see
what he is referring to in regards to the first page: "the greenish dead
eye of the TV tube...," but in terms of Oedipa's quest, her method of
looking for either/or (black/white) answers, I see some kind of
relationship between the excluded middle and the color green (ie. her
desire to see the world forever through the "dark green bubble shades.")
What reinforces this assumption for me is the Varo triptych Oedipa looks at
in the same scene.  The painting, all three panels, are done in black and
white (and grey), with the exception of a few yellow-orange hues
throughout.
        Any ideas?  Disagreements?

--jason