VL-Vond's "blued body"

[Mark Kohut]

Henry writes: 
Particularly gun-metal a-and that Dr. Manhattan.  
There is also the bluing that is used in laundering white wash to make it
appear... whiter than white!  FWIW, many TV's have their whites a little
blue for the same reason.
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We know well about Pynchon and whiteness.....and with the TV pervasiveness
in Vineland, is this a major meaning of the color 'blue' that Rosenbaum pointed to? 
I say Yes, henry's hit it.........


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Kohut

bluing - a process that makes something blue (or bluish) 
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn 
 
    * 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. ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluing_(steel) 
 
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