AtDDtA(15): "'Pee-culiar Goings-On'"

[Dave Monroe]

On 8/16/07, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

> "the ranks of white fixtures, blurring mostly violet at the edges"

"The ranks" here, with its strong military overtone, might be
interesting in and of itself here (and, again, cf. that Toiletship
Rücksichtslos  in GR) but why "white .. blurring mostly violet at the
edges"?  Sounds like some kind of iris ...

http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=947


... however ...

"The effects could well be called unprecedented, magnificent,
beautiful, stupendous, and terrifying.  The lighting effects beggared
description.  The whole country was lighted by a searing light with
the intensity many times that of the midday sun.  It was golden,
purple, violet, gray, and blue.  It lighted every peak, crevasse and
ridge of the nearby mountain range with a clarity and beauty that
cannot be described but must be seen to be imagined."

http://www.nuclearfiles.org/menu/key-issues/nuclear-weapons/history/pre-cold-war/hiroshima-nagasaki/decision-drop-bomb-chronology.htm

Again, many, many strange and enigmatic details here ...