Pynchon's meaningful AtD colors..from a NR interview with the Socialist candidate

[Glenn Scheper]

Lawrence said:
Check out the essay on yellow in Theroux's "The Primary Colors".

I think a gloss will suffice. Waddaya think my mind is? A taffy-pull?

Yellow, for Mr. Theroux, is linked, affirmatively, with the sun, with gold and 
light and transcendence. It is the color of butter, sponges, tennis balls, 
candlelight, pencils, rain slickers and McDonald's golden arches. Its negative 
connotations seem equally potent: illness and cowardice and evil. "It is the 
color of early bruises," he writes, "unpopular cats, potato wart, old paper, 
chloroflavedo in plants, forbidding skies, dead leaves, xanthoderma, purulent 
conjunctivitis, dental plaque, gimp lace, foul curtains, infection and pus 
('yellow matter custard, dripping from a dead dog's eye,' sings John Lennon in 
'I Am the Walrus'), speed bumps, callused feet, and ugly deposits of nicotine on 
fingers and teeth."
  -- http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9802E0DB1639F93AA2575BC0A962958260
  BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Red, Yellow and Blue From a Wordsmith's Prism - New York Times


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Glenn Scheper
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