Christmas In Pynchon

[ricepeste]

"Christmas bugs. They were deep in the straw of the manger of Bethlehem, they stumbled, climbed, fell glistening red among a golden lattice of straw that must have seemed to extend miles upward and downward - an edible tenement-world, now and then gnarled through to disrupt some mysterious sheaf of vectors that would send neighbor bugs tumbling ass

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Crimson & Clover

[tdaschel]

...over an' over

OR

"i'll stop Magenta and Greening when i'm dead!"

[ i dunno / begining with gRainbow, there are pointed Howdyados on this particular theme litt'ring each novel / WATCH:

"a giant sporting establishment whose turquoise and crimson electric lamps were kept lit all night and daytime, too, for the place never closed..."

"...with fleeces dyed in a variety of fashionable colors, including the perennial favorites aquamarine and mauve."

"'Yehp, never could see green, bein a mauve man myself,'"

...'an there's plenty more from there (i.e., Against the Day) alone / a book i'm enjoying immensely (albeit in retrospect...). one imagines the visual field checkerboarded into daytime pinks and pale greens or, heavens, a deep, vibrant Chrismassy green an' Holiday red (visited, mayhaps, by a deep, heart-pounding VIOLET, color of SMOAK...).

Re: Crimson & Clover

[ricepeste]

I thought I remembered your bringing to my attention a series of symbolic colors in the book, maybe the 'rainbow' itself -- that's one hell of a dense book, and one that, on my second reading, I know I'm still only partially digesting. I haven't seen Against the Day yet, may take a look at it after I get off this computer ...

Re: Crimson & Clover

[tdaschel]

it must be somebody else with the color angle w.r.t. GR (which is likely a legitimate and fruit-bearing path, given TP's fascination with Kabbalistic correspondences and the like...).