On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Marvin Long, Jr. wrote:
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> On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Dan Minette wrote:
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> > 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.
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> 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
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> color for sex-dittos.
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I meant "cultures" of course. Dang that Freud and his undergarments.
Marvin Long
Austin, Texas
