Newbie needs help with "Gravity's Rainbow"

[Dave Monroe]

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 12:18 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 11:58 PM, Mike Jing <mikezjing at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi! I am new here. And I need some help with Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. Specifically, I have several questions about the paragraph on page 13 (Penguin 2006 Deluxe Edition):
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>> 1. What is the meaning of "...you're apt now and then to get a bit of lime-green in with your rose, as they say"? Is this an idiom of some sort? Google found no reference except to the novel itself.

69.14 a bandana of the regulation magenta and green

The coal-tar derived colors of organic chemistry that resonate
throughout the novel.
The visual clash between these colours appears elsewhere - 'A bit of
lime green in with your rose' 12 Pynchon seems to associate positive
things with these colors - see Against the Day particularly - as he
does with bandanas. A-and bananas

http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_60-71#Page_69

> Magenta and Green
> From: "Coloring Gravity's Rainbow" - Pynchon Notes, #16, Spring 1985
> N. Katherine Hayles and Mary B. Eiser
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> http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Magenta_and_Green
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> http://www.ham.muohio.edu/~krafftjm/pn/pn016.pdf
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> Magenta and Green.
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> http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=M
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> green and magenta
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> http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=G#greenmagenta
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> color
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> http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=C