Misc. VL...more of the pervasive 'blue"

[Michael Bailey]

 Mark Kohut  wrote:
> Ever since that critic pointed out the "blue" filling VL,
> I see it in many other novels.......
>

at least 2 of the Traverse boys have blue eyes
it's striking, exotic to me (a brown eyed person) as one doesn't think
of blue as a terrestrial biological color at first blush, ya
know...like the diva in Fifth Element...

> (Maybe gotta read Gass's On Being Blue?)
>

anybody read The Tunnel?

> Anyway, on the first page of Rabbit Run, 1960, John-boy Updike
> of course, we get:
>
> "squinting through blue clouds of weed smoke"
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>

smoking weed in 1960?


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