Anarchy has a color.

David Payne dpayne1912 at hotmail.com
Fri Nov 21 21:21:40 CST 2008


Whoa, I'm weeks behind on my email, but did anyone note this, from Vineland?
 
"Aqua's what they give their wives, honey," Ché told her. "Black and red," twirling from a short-nailed finger a pair of lace bikinis in that combination, "is what they like to see on a bad girl."

"Night and blood," amplified Fleur, who'd recently begun working as a professional out of her apartment and was trying to talk Ché into joining the string she was on, "it's like they're programmed for it or somethin' — oh, hey, nice, Ché, do you mind?"

" 'Course not," Ché in the middle of sliding into a short see-through number herself.

Prairie watched them playing centerfold and thought, strangely, of Zoyd, her dad, and how much he would have enjoyed the display. "Not exactly a innocent teen fashion message here," she commented.
"It never has worked on Ché," said Fleur. "Put her in anything pink or white," fingerslash across her throat, "her street plausibility's all shot to hell."

"While on the other hand you, my dear," Ché flinging at Prairie something almost weightless in those colors, "belong inside this item, stolen expressly for you."
 
 
On Tuesday, November 11, 2008 12:34 PM, "Glenn Scheper" (glenn_scheper at earthlink.net) wrote:
>>> Geez I don't know Obama's wife's name...
>>> Ah... Michelle!
>>> re. Her dress at acceptance:
>>>
>>> Black and red bisected symbolism
>>>
>>> The red-and-black flag is the symbol of the anarcho-syndicalist and
>>> anarcho-communist movements. Black is the traditional color of anarchism,
>>> and red is the traditional color of socialism. The red-and-black flag
>>> combines the two colors in equal parts, with a simple diagonal split.
>>> Typically, the red section is placed on the top-left corner, with the
>>> black on the bottom-right corner of the flag. This symbolizes the
>>> co-existence of anarchist and socialist ideals within the
>>> anarcho-syndicalism movement, and to symbolize the more socialistic means
>>> of the movement leading to a more anarchistic end.

 
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