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| Author: | testforecho [ Sat Jun 27, 2009 3:51 am ] |
| Post subject: | Blue? |
There are many references to the color blue and few reference to any other color. Any thoughts about this? Here's a list of what I have noted: The book jacket is blue The medical staffer overseeing Kate Gompert is chewing blue gum - p. 69 Schtitt's blue eyes - p. 80 Tiny Ewell's roommate sits in a blue plastic chair - p 86 the Entertainment came from "out of the blue?" "From somewhere blue?" - p. 90 the entertainment called a blue dazzle - p. 90 blue crush carpet in the locker room - p. 99 blue steel of lockers - p. 99 Hal's blue eyes - p. 101 Orin's and the Mom's lighter blue eyes - p. 101 Hal's blue ankle - p. 104 Inactive viewer's screen is the color of way out over the Atlantic looking straight down on a cold day - p.115 ETA Comm Ad lobby with it's royal blue shag - p 151 dancer is wearing blue and white striped top - p. 229 Joelle looks at the blue river. -p 233 "You have a river outside you that is robin-egg's blue" - p 233 The Charles rolling away far below the windowless bathroom is vividly blue, more mildly blue on top from the fresh rainwater ...a deeper Magic Marker blue below the dilute layer - p237 smoke's baby-blanket blue - p 239 the light sharp bitter tint of a heated sky's blue that left her uprightly fetal with chin on knees - p 239 Molly had somebody lacquer the tub in blue - p 239 vomiting of the lip of the cool blue tub - p 240 vomiting muddy juice and blue smoke - p 240 bladed vessels aloft in the night to monitor flow, searchlit helicopters, fat fingers of blue light from one sky, searching. -p 240 |
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| Author: | IamStrychnine [ Mon Jun 29, 2009 6:38 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Blue? |
Medical staffer chews blue gum (can't remember what page) |
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| Author: | polymathicj [ Mon Jun 29, 2009 10:14 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Blue? |
Kate Gompert is wearing dark-blue boating sneakers without socks on page 68. |
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| Author: | Hugh G. Rection [ Tue Jun 30, 2009 6:28 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Blue? |
Endnote 30: the "beautiful" blue eyewash container. |
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| Author: | petehindle [ Thu Jul 16, 2009 5:45 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Blue? |
People! The book is over nine-hundred pages long! That's enough for a colour to turn up a lot of times! |
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| Author: | gregcarlisle [ Thu Jul 16, 2009 7:25 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Blue? |
There is a section coming up where Hal catalogues the things he sees that are blue. |
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| Author: | dws [ Sun Jul 19, 2009 7:49 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Blue? |
| Author: | Convexity [ Thu Jul 23, 2009 10:28 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Blue? |
The prevalence of blue at ETA just seemed to me accounted-for because it's Tavis' favorite color, so I read the mention of all things blue at ETA as just an extension of his stifling and somewhat obnoxious presence. If you want to be symbolic with the color itself, blue could signify masculinity and paternity, which Tavis is somewhat an expressed failure with regards to both. He's a man of many words that both signify nothing and earn no one's trust. He's also kind of the playing the "usurper role" to JOI in a lot of ways, but fails in the role kind of in the opposite ways that JOI failed.[*] [*] |
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| Author: | misterAyed [ Sun Aug 02, 2009 5:31 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Blue? |
I also like Maranthe's stilted misunderstanding of the U.S. idiom meaning "by surprise" or "without warning" as something "coming from the blue place" or "from somewhere blue." |
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| Author: | storm [ Wed Aug 05, 2009 8:02 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Blue? |
I've read the dominance of blue in IJ as an homage to David Lynch's Blue Velvet. That movie, highly stylistic and creepy and beautiful, uses a couple of symbols frequently: Blue, Insects, Darkness/Shadows, the Femme Fatale, damage to the brain- the IJ parallels are pretty clear. Now whether a deeper meaning exists for each of these/what that meaning is goes beyond my knowledge of David Lynch. So, I'm sorry, but I have no great speculations to offer as to the meaning of blue. |
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