The C-Word, red

[Chris Stolz]

>And what about, "Whenever it happens, though, the light always gets very
>red for them."??  This doesn't sound very Pynchonesque to me -- more like
>something Hemingway would have dropped in there and, when asked about it,
>said was part of the story's metaphysics.  I suppose it could refer  to
>red-shift of light, too -- something (the happiness of their doomed,
>transitory wartime interlude?) receding from them at high speed.
>
>	Skip

Well, red's been connected with sex (via roses, blood, death, heat, swelling
of affected parts, blushing, danger etc etc) for awhile culturally.  hmm.
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Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake.  But 
this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare 
in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors 
of reason.  When we emerge, perhaps we will realise we have been 
dreaming with our eyes open, and that the dreams of reason are intolerable.
And then, perhaps, we will begin to dream once more 
with our eyes closed.

			-- Octavio Paz, _The Labyrinth of Solitude_