ATDDTA (6) 178-179

[Dave Monroe]

--- robinlandseadel at comcast.net wrote:

>               John BAILEY:
> 
>               What's the "page eighty-six" ref?
> 
> As in Tom Wait's "I've been 86ed from your list".
> Being 86ed, which usually involving being tossed
> out one way or the other, has popped up before in 
> Pynchon. I can't seem to track it down at this
> moment but there is some use of the term "86ed" in
> Vineland in the form of a modifier based on Latin
> roots. Like "Octosexigenation" or suchlike....

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0211&msg=72384


       
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