At 9:24 AM -0500 8/18/99, Michael D. Workman wrote: >Also from GRC: > >166.23-29 "coal tar...Earth's excrement...Passed over" The mythology is >certainly Pynchon's, [big snip of interesting info] My query: Pynchon mentions that Mauve was the first non-natural occuring color. Is this mere fiction, or is there some truth. - st. -