VL-Vond's

[kelber at mindspring.com]

The bluing is used (sometimes to excess in the hair of little-old-ladies) to get rid of not white, but yellow.  Yellow=jaundice, age, cynicism; blue=youth, power, vitality?

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>Sent: Mar 11, 2009 11:19 AM
>To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: VL-Vond's "blued body"
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>bluing - a process that makes something blue (or bluish) 
>wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn 
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>    * Bluing is a passivation process in which steel is partially protected against rust, and is named after the blue-black appearance of the resulting protective finish. ...
>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluing_(steel)
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>PHOTON Freedom Fashion Colors, White LED, Blued Body 
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