IVing the IV color vs. black & white

[alice wellintown]

Prettyplace on Kong and Oz in GR. Brilliant. But here it is but
another one of those tired and exhausted tropes.

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> p. 286 So, Saunch launches into his 'do you realize what this means?" riff on The Wizard of OZ, my reading of one layer is that this is P's steady satirizing of groups/readers like us, we plisters, me a leading figure of cartoonish fun, some would argue, but in P's career we have seen it before: we have his named friend K-Sale's exegesis in C of Lot 49 and that terrif riff in GR, perhaps up to Candlebrow U. in AtD....??
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> Yet, another layer? in his way he might also MEAN it to be an internal metaphor.....from a black & white/ good & evil/ Manichean view of the world to.........seeing a much wider palette of color, much more gradation in it??
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> Re color: I think of the emphasis on more color---the light over the ranges, all the symbolic colors in AtD........
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