The first magenta and green? (was

[jbor at bigpond.com]

On 16/06/2006:

> I'm not persuaded either, just happened to be reading that passage
> after reading my email and thought it was neat and might be
> interesting. Didn't mean at all to insinuate that that was Pynchon's
> inspiration.
>
> ben

No worries. At least it got me motivated to find out once and for all 
who Davitt and Parnell were and what that whole political subplot in 
Portrait is about.

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