AtDtDA23: Damned Ladies' Gathering Spots

[kelber at mindspring.com]

And also, Ishmael's discussion of why white is scary in Moby Dick (Chapter 42:  The Whiteness of the Whale).

Laura

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>From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>

>"unstained white dresses ... pure white hats"
>
>whiteness
>stressed motif. Cf. alabaster temples at the Columbian Exposition.Cf.
>whiteness in GR.
>
>http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_644-677#Page_644
>
>Cf. ...
>
>Weissmann, Captain/Major/Lieutent [sic]
>German: "white man"; aka Blicero, aka Dominus Blicero, aka Capt. Blicero ...
>
>http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/gravity/alpha/b.html#blicero
>http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/gravity/alpha/w.html#weissmann
>
>"the fabled 'White City' [...] alabaster temples of commerce and
>industry" (AtD, Pt. I, p. 3)
>
>http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0701&msg=114269
>
>Cf. ...
>
>"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!  For ye are like
>unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are
>within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness." --Matthew
>23:37
>
>http://bible.cc/matthew/23-27.htm
>
>http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/conrad/pva52.html
>
>And see as well, esp., ...
>
>Dyer, Richard.  "White."  The Matter of Images:
>    Essays on Representations.  London: Routledge, 1993.  141-63
>
>__________.  White.  New York: Routledge, 1997.
>
>http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0105&msg=55316
>http://www.routledge.com/shopping_cart/products/product_detail.asp?sku=&isbn=9780415095372
>
>Batchelor, David.  Chromophobia.  London: Reaktion, 2000.
>
>http://books.google.com/books?id=QSu0aLKfdukC
>http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/164842.ctl
>