Some colour terms from Gravity's Rainbow//1973

[Monte Davis]

Dave Monroe cites:

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

"Mossmoon's office is a roller-skate ride away from Whitehall, and guarded
by room after room of sentinel girls, each of them wearing a frock of a
radically different color from the others (and this goes on for a while, so
you can imagine what 3-sigma colors these are to begin with, if that many
can be so 'radically different,' you know, like that-oh, colors such as
lizard, evening star, pale Atlantis to name a few)..." [p. 635]