What's black and white and red all over

[Paul Mackin]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Terrance" <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2001 2:52 PM
Subject: Re: What's black and white and red all over


> M&D
>
> If your going to chapter 10 of M&D on  the screen you won't need living
> color.
> Pynchon paints the place in shades of black and white, adding a little
> red light now and then.
>
> Bull's eye

The guy's fascinated by light spectrums, red shifting, doppler effects,
wants to ascribe meanings. Does he mean we are all moving away from each
other. Not at near the speed of light or anything but nevertheless
diverging.

Did someone say those things mounted in ship bulkheads (of yore) to provide
light to the interior are called bull's eyes? Heavy glass objects tapering
in flat edges to a point, conically prismatic?  Got one here somewhere but
never knew what they were called.

        P.