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On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Dan Minette wrote: > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > I'm guessing that DB didn't worry a whole lot about the symbolism of color. I think >he may have been careful to make black good, but that's about it. I think more effort >went into the plot and into the metaphysics. > I would also guess that color assignment was based mostly on whimsy, with some sensitivity to stereotypes. The thing that struck me about the black/white dichotomy is that it's a reversal of traditional Western bigotries, which assume that white = intellectual and black = oversexed. Of course, white is also the dominant "beauty-paradigm" in Western and many other colors, so that may have had an influence on the choice of color for sex-dittos. Maybe a gray ditto represents a balance between the above extremes and so represents a "normal" state of rig-representation, as much an agent as a servant of the rig. I can't think of any reason to make green dittos the laborers, except that "It's not easy being green." Aren't there some other colors, too, for factory workers and specific professions/hobbies? Marvin Long Austin, Texas
