Some colour terms from Gravity's Rainbow//1973

[Dave Monroe]

>From David Batchelor, ed., Colour (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008):

Thomas Pynchon
Some colour terms from Gravity's Rainbow//1973

Drowned-man green
Coal tar-impossible orange-brown
Deep cheap-perfume aquamarine
Creamy chocolate FBI-shoe brown

Thomas Pynchon, colour terms from the novel Gravity's Rainbow (New
York: Viking, 1973) [lines 1 and 2] 693; [lines 3 and 4] 696.

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