Newbie needs help with "Gravity's Rainbow"

[Dave Monroe]

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 4:28 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> with green: Culturally, green has broad and sometimes contradictory meanings. In
> some cultures, green symbolizes hope and growth, while in others, it is
> associated with death, sickness, envy, or the devil.
>
> And rose associating with under the rose, etc...

... on the one hand, you have the magenta + green of chemical
derivation (coal tar dyes et al.), on the other, say, the colors of
spring (as in, "the last green and magenta" in GR) ...