VLVL2 (12): "86'd'

[Tim Strzechowski]

218.22:  "Weed soon found he'd been 86'd from every tux outlet in Hollywood and on south [...]"


I lift this freely and plagiaristically from my own post at the start of VLVL2 back in July, 2003:

"A number that comes up frequently in Pynchon discussions; most notably used in the "Introduction" to Slow Learner:

"My first reaction, rereading these stories, was oh my God, accompanied by physical symptoms we shouldn't dwell upon.  My second thought was about some kind of a wall-to-wall rewrite ... [but] I mean I can't just 86 this guy from my life" (SL, 3).

A few theories:

http://phrases.shu.ac.uk/bulletin_board/4/messages/1014.html

http://tom.weblogs.com/2003/06/12

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_291b.html

http://www.wordwizard.com/clubhouse/founddiscuss.asp?Num=5060

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