BE ch. 11: electric green & turnip purple

[Rev'd Seventy-Six]

The first place I recall running into these pigments was at the outset of
V.  I've yet to crack what they are, rilly; the nearest analogue I can
point to is David Lynch w/ his complementary colors of safety (red) &
terminal soulfuck (blue)--  see also: Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, Mulholland
Drive  --but Lynch is just as mum as P. on the subject.

I have theories, hey, who doesn't?  But the purpose here, aside from
highlighting March's relation to Tallis, remains as obscure as P.'s
compulsion to mention James Bond every other chapter.

Also interested b/c the colors seeped into my dreams late last year, when I
was in therapy.  I dreamt P. had a new book on the way, an ugly, hi-gloss,
heavily-illustrated tome titled 'The Imperatores'.  The front cover had
this pic of a narrow street, rowhouses in an Italian style, with what
looked like a crude Mickey Mouse painted across their front faces; overlaid
on top, the title & author's name in violent green and turgid purple...

Apropos of sweet f.a., I'm sure, aside from the fact I was eating an
alarming amount of pistachios.
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