Psychedelic Favorites

[Dave Monroe]

"... the psychedelic favorites green and magenta ..." (IV, Ch. 1, p. 14)

Cf. ...

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0708&msg=120718

>From N. Katherine Hayles and Mary B. Eiser, "Coloring Gravity's
Rainbow,"  Pynchon Notes 16 (Spring 1985): 3-24:

   "Slothrop's identification with purple and green may indicate that
he is being transformed into a projected image, because these colors
habitually occur in relation to filmed or hallucinated images.... the
purple/green pairing indicates that Slothrop, like a cinematic image,
is receding from us through increasing layers of mediation." (p. 17)

http://www.ham.muohio.edu/~krafftjm/pn/pn016.pdf

And do note, of course ...

http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/CoverImagePopup/0,,9781594202247,00.html

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0907&msg=137147

There may be more G 'n' M in IV than in GR, even ...