I assume you mean "The Knot" as the restatement. I can definitely see that. Heh, it would be silly if I couldn't; now that you mention it, it's painfully obvious.

And then he goes crazy and "flies into its boughs."

Re: green-- do it. You'd have to bleach it first, though, I think, to get the green to be as bright as I'd presume you're imagining it to be.