'Freshly cut grass – or bile-infused Exorcist vomit?': how crime books embraced lurid green
- Written by Carolyn McKay, Senior Lecturer – Criminal Law, Procedure, Digital Criminology, University of Sydney
University of Sydney Library
Green is a colour that evokes nature, fecundity, sustainability.
At the traffic lights it signals go; on a boat, starboard.
It’s a soft celadon glaze; an intense Van Eyck wedding dress; frothy, aromatic matcha tea; aurora borealis; a meditative praying mantis. It’s jungle camouflage, Joyce’s snotgreen...