Rainbow

[will.miller.ace at artsfb.org.uk]

With the Pynchon group tossing about theories of the rainbow and their 
significance to Gravity's Rainbow - can I point out that this discussion is 
one that has been focus of many Finnegans Wake studies, especially with 
respect to Berkley's theories of light?

The principle male in FW is dressed in rainbow hues on a number of 
occasions, and there is philosophical/religious/nationalist debate on the 
nature of colour in the final book of FW between a druid and St Patrick 
which results in the overthrow of an older order and the institution of a 
new basis for state domination-religion etc. And of course, the rainbow 
motif in FW is inextricably bound to the young females so eager sought after 
by these competing males....