green and magenta- spoilers

[Carvill John]

I always assume it's a drug referemce. Lots of magenta (often with green) in 
Gravity's Rainbow. Couple-three examples:


"Whappo also sports a bandanna of the regulation magenta and green 
(Crutchfield is supposed to have a closetful of these silken scarves back 
home at "Rancho Peligroso" and never rides out into the rock-country and 
riverbed trails without a dozen or two stashed in his saddlebags. This must 
mean that the one-of-each rule applies only to forms of life, such as little 
pards, and not to objects, such as bandannas). "

"some mashed pulp all magenta with pomegranates or something . . . "

"Come on." They proceed outside to a eucalyptus grove, where Jean-Claude 
Gongue, notorious white slaver of Marseilles, is busy white-slaving. "Hey 
you," hollering into the trees, "you wanna be a white slave, huh?" "Shit 
no," answers some invisible girl, "I wanna be a green slave!" "Magenta!" 
yells somebody from up in an olive tree. "Vermilion!" "Think I'll take up 
dealing dope," sez Jean-Claude.

"The Heath grows green and magenta in all directions, earth and heather, 
coming of age— No. It was spring."

...and my absolute favourite:

"Of course, of course," sez Osbie, with a fluid passage of fingers and wrist 
based on the way Bela Lugosi handed a certain glass of doped wine to some 
fool of a juvenile lead in White Zombie, the first movie Osbie ever saw and 
in a sense the last, ranking on his All-Time List along with Son of 
Frankenstein, Freaks, Flying Down to Rio and perhaps Dumbo, which he went to 
see in Oxford Street last night but midway through noticed, instead of a 
magic feather, the humorless green and magenta face of Mr. Ernest Bevin 
wrapped in the chubby trunk of the longlashed baby elephant, and decided it 
would be prudent to excuse himself. "No," since Pirate meantime has 
misunderstood whatever it was Osbie said, "not 'of course you've gone mad, 
Prentice,' that wasn't it at all. . . ."



>
>And lest we forget this bit from VL (p. 17-18):
>
>"...and out of another dimension, where he'd been
>waiting in orbit, emerged Isaiah Two Four, who today,
>Zoyd noticed, had his long Mohawk colored a vibrant
>acid green, except at the tips, where some magenta
>shade was airbrushed on.  Now these happened to be
>Zoyd's two all-time favorite colors, and Prairie, who
>had given him enough T-shirts and ashtrays in the
>quaint sixties combo, knew it.  Was this some weird
>effort to be nice?"
>
>Damn, that's a lot of commas.
>
>-Chris
>
>From: "Jordan Fink"
>
>does anyone have any ideas about what
>magenta/mauve/violet versus green
>symbolizes for him.
>
>
>
>
>
>____________________________________________________________________________________
>Cheap talk?
>Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call rates.
>http://voice.yahoo.com

_________________________________________________________________
Share your latest news with your friends with the Windows Live Spaces 
friends module. 
http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwsp0070000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://spaces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx?wx_action=create&wx_url=/friends.aspx&mk