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

[Lawrence Bryan]

Hmmmm... I guess it never occurred to me to think about what your mind  
is. So gloss away, Glenn. :)

On Oct 24, 2008, at 3:17 PM, Glenn Scheper wrote:

> 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
>
>
> Yours truly,
> Glenn Scheper
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