BtZ42/10 The color red

[Mark Kohut]

Red and other blacks, during the Cold War, with real chemical testing, in
these real United States. (Pynchon is just an extreme realist, no hysteria
at all)

 Army conducted secret chemical testing in predominantly black St. Louis
neighborhood during Cold War http://www.cbsnews.com/news/secret-co
ld-war-tests-in-st-louis-cause- <https://t.co/NSSdQJoJ2g>

On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 6:46 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Speaking of Red, as in communist, Fowler points out, p. 64, that Red is
> already Malcolm: the 'conked' hair--processed hair--is a key detail. on
> page 68, " 'Red' " is now a communist, and the John Birch cant, especially
> the anti-FDR venom is the sort of  thing Slothrop might have been expected
> to overhear from his daddy, broderick, one of the novel's inkiest *eminences
> noire.:-- *Fowler again.
>
> On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 7:10 AM, János Széky <miksaapja at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Sorry, the sixth:
>> - "One Red Indian with one buffalo"(68V).
>>
>> 2016-05-23 22:09 GMT+02:00 János Széky <miksaapja at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> Five uses in this section (that I can count):
>>> - Red (Malcolm X), 63V
>>> - Red Devil lye (sodium hydroxide), 67V
>>> - Red River Valley (68V)
>>> - Reds (who "want to take it all away (68V)
>>> - Toro Rojo (69V)
>>>
>>> As for the latter: both the Marvel Comic figure El Toro Rojo and the
>>> energy drink (from Southeast Asia -> Austria) came much later. But: for a
>>> long time I understood the line "Mad bull lost its way' in Gimme Shelter
>>> (1969) as "Red Bull lost its way". Maybe because there's the color red in
>>> the previous line ("Burns like a red coal carpet"). Is there any
>>> significance of Red Bull in Mexican folklore?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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