VLVL2 (15): Night and Blood

[Dave Monroe]

   "'Aqua's what they give their wives, honey,' Che
told her.  'Black and red,' twirkling from a
short-nailed fingfer a pair of lace bikinis in that
combination, 'is what they like to see on a bad girl.'
   "'Night and blood,' amplified Fleur, who'd recently
begun working as a professional out of her a[artment
and was trying to talk che into joining the string she
was on, 'it's like they's programmed for it or
somethin' ....'" (VL, Ch. 15, p. 332)


p. 332 "It's like they's programmed for it or
somethin'"   Fleur's comment on why gentlemen prefer
black and red underwear on "bad girls" is reminiscent
of Pirate Prentiss' involuntary, ejaculatory response
to a certain photo, delivered to him via V2, in
Gravity's Rainbow. 

p. 332 "Night and Blood"    Echoes of Katje and
Pudding in Gravity's Rainbow (p. 232-233): "She waits
for him...white body and black
uniform-of-the-night.... Lipstick...prevails like
blood.... She is naked now, except for a long sable
cape and black boots with court heels. Her only
jewelry is a silver ring with an artificial ruby...an
arrogant gout of blood..."

http://www.mindspring.com/~shadow88/chapter15.htm

And see as well, e.g., ...

Berlin, Brent and Paul Kay.  Basic Color Terms:
   Their Universality and Evolution.  Berkeley:
   U of California P, 1969.

http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/wcs/

http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/site/1575861623.html

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/14527.ctl


	
		
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