Newbie needs help with "Gravity's Rainbow"

[Dave Monroe]

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 12:40 AM, Mike Jing <mikezjing at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Dave.  I think my question is more basic than your answer deserves.
> I guess it is just saying that the two colors are getting somewhat mixed up,
> is that correct?

I'm forwarding this to the List as well 'cos I suspect just aboiuyt
everyone will have a better answer than i will, so ... uh, yeah,
though I'm with you in assuming that there's some specific idiom--or,
@ least, context (rosewater vs. lime in yr gin and/or tonic?)--and,
not so much the mixture, but the contrast (yin/yang?) seems the issue
of interest and/or importance or whatever there, but ...

... but there are just so damn many such instances, and not just in GR
alone (see also AtD + IV, in particular), and the particular colors do
seem to have a particular significance, bot in Pynchon in particular
and in the history of color (chemical or otherwise) in general ...