GR translation: coaltar-impossible orange-brown

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Monte, thanks. What do you mean with that most interesting word,
"counter-magic"? Is it Nature or Mystery or Magic somehow countering Man or
Chemistry?
Thanks in advance.
On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 6:33 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:

> ​Coal tar itself is black​ or dark brown. In the 1830s it yielded aniline,
> from which chemists synthesized a host of dyes (starting with Perkin's
> famous mauve). Those drove the growth of the German chemical industry, and
> are linked both to drugs like Oneirine and to GR's geomythology of coal
> strata, etc -- see V166
>
> So many colors came from coal tar that I take "coaltar-impossible" to be
> in this context a sign of counter-magic: a shade that this apparently
> omnipotent technology *can't* produce
>
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 1:40 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> V693.8-19, P706.31-707.2   There were men called “army chaplains.” They
>> preached inside some of these buildings. There were actually soldiers, dead
>> now, who sat or stood, and listened. Holding on to what they could. Then
>> they went out, and some died before they got back inside a garrison-church
>> again. Clergymen, working for the army, stood up and talked to the men who
>> were going to die about God, death, nothingness, redemption, salvation.
>> It really happened. It was quite common.
>>        Even in a street used for that, still there will be one time, one
>> dyed afternoon (coaltar-impossible orange-brown, clear all the way
>> through), or one day of rain and clearing before bedtime, and in the yard
>> one hollyhock, circling in the wind, fresh with raindrops fat enough to be
>> chewed . . .
>>
>> What does "coaltar-impossible" mean here?
>>
>
>
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