BE ch. 11: electric green & turnip purple

[Monte Davis]

Do read  “Coloring Gravity’s Rainbow,” by Katherine Hayles and Mary Eisler,
in Pynchon Notes #16, especially the section on 'Slothrop's Color
Complements: Purple and Green'

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http://www2.ham.muohio.edu/~krafftjm@muohio.edu/backissu.html


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Subject: Re: BE ch. 11: electric green & turnip purple

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.