BE ch. 11: electric green & turnip purple

[Christopher Simon]

Doesn't red in Twin Peaks always mean "bad"? The red curtains were partially how they crack the murder of Laura, and the red room of weirdness is definitely more ominous than anything else.

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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.
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