In 1974, after a number of novels that explored the notions of personal identity and what it means to be human, Mr. Dick had a series of experiences in which he believed he had information transmitted to his mind by a pink beam of light.
Few books have given me this sort of real-time thrill, the kind that trailed me out of the theater after seeing the movie about a girl in the pocket of that freakiest of changes, from kid to adolescent, who is suddenly able to light an entire gymnasium full of promgoers on fire with her mind while wearing a pink gown covered in pig's blood.
Certainly, no one likes a lamb chop that's more gristly fat than flavour, but surely we've advanced enough as a nation now to not mind a bit of pink?
I told the lady that Josefin likes red better than pink but she doesn't mind a slight hint of pink.
For peace of mind, I decided to join a Pink Jeep tour, now in its first season, for a modern-day '49ers expedition to the Racetrack Playa, a mysterious destination.
"Code," with its small black geometric shapes on a pink ground, brings to mind punch-card patterns, or Morse code language, while also being a Mary Heilmannesque abstraction.
Bad seeds with sex on their minds and in their cunt heels love a pink Nat Sherman, non?
He told us that last week, with 100 other people in the town he represents, Lichfield, he had been demonstrating against domestic violence by wearing pink, in his case "pink trousers, a pink shirt and pink feather boa!" The mind began to spin gently out of control.
Thé Rouge has a warmer boudoir sensuality in mind with pink pepper, orange, fig pulp, walnut and musk.
She was wearing a pink cardigan, the soft, English pink that immediately brings to mind the 50s.
