green and magenta- spoilers

[Anville Azote]

On 12/1/06, Jordan Fink <jordan at riseup.net> wrote:
> does anyone have any ideas about what magenta/mauve/violet versus green
> symbolizes for him.
>

Mauve, green and magenta are all coal-tar dye colors which point back
to the German chemical industry and GR.  In 1856, William Perkin was
looking for a way to make artificial quinine and lucked upon a
synthetic dye instead, giving the world "mauveine" (a.k.a. aniline
purple) and kicking off the modern science of organic chemistry.
Magenta came about three years later; an accidental change of the
magenta synthesis in 1860 produced aniline blue.

In 1863, Empress Eugenie astounded the Parisian high-fashion circles
by wearing a green dress that didn't look blue under gaslight. . .
dyed with aniline green, developed by a German chemist named Lucius,
whose company came to be known as Hoechst.

Mauve, magenta and green point to the IG.

-A. A.