Living? Color

[LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU]

matt notes:
"Yeah, there was that scene in _Cruising_ which is where the myth comes
from.   And I think it's been largely discredited as a (straight) myth
about homosexuals...  W/r/t colors in _GR_- it's fairly significant that
the colors of the spectrum are seen as preferrable to abscence of color
(white or black)- I've been trying to develop a typology of color, but
basically, there doesn't seem to be one.  Except that color is seen to be
indicative ofe life/emotion in contrast to the use of white and black,
which seem to reflect death/abscence in the text."

There are exceptions--the colors from coal-tar-derived dyes, especially
magenta and green!  Keep an eye peeled for those two!

Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)