SOCIAL CENTRE MOVES NORTH

[Mr Haney]

great page from the Times, anyway...
all those tycoons really used to get together and party!
 
puzzling sentence:
 
"Sir Roger DeCoverley was danced after supper
with great enthusiasm"
 
of course one thinks of "DeCoverley Pox"
but apparently
""DeCoverley" comes from Sir Roger Decoverley, the prototypical country squire created by Addison and Steele for the Spectator and named in turn for a country reel dance."
http://english2.mnsu.edu/larsson/gr1.html
 
apparently there was something called a
"Roger Decoverley Society" in 1910 in New York,
which published those essays...
 
Spectator 2
"He is now in his fifty-sixth year, cheerful, gay, and hearty; keeps a good house in both town and country; a great lover of mankind; but there is such a mirthful cast in his behavior, that he is rather beloved than esteemed....when he comes into a house he calls the servants by their names, and talks all the way up stairs to a visit." 
 
and the dance appears in Dickens:
"the fiddler ... struck up 'Sir Roger de Coverley'. Then old Fezziwig stood out to dance with Mrs. Fezziwig.""
 
---- last year, I remember, I read somebody's
Christmas newsletter, wherein he repeated his
mother's advice on his entry into business:
"Fezziwig, not Scrooge, son..."
 
 
 
 
> From: robinlandseadel at comcast.net> To: pynchon-l at waste.org> Subject: SOCIAL CENTRE MOVES NORTH> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 03:07:29 +0000> > December 24, 1905, Sunday> Page 2, 951 words> The social centre of New York City, > which for the past eighty years seems > to have moved up town one block, or > 200 feet each year, has jumped in > the last three years from Fifty-second > Street in 1902 to a point midway in > the block between Fifty-seventh and > Fifty-eighth Streets, just west of Fifth > Avenue, or at an accelerated pace of > nearly 300 feet per annum. . . .> > I was hunting down Harry Raymond, a Pynchon Partner in Chicago, this is a page > from 1905. After noting the northward migration of the smart set on the island, > we audition Jan Kubelik with Alphonse A. Mucha, followed by a cotillion with the > Harrimans and Jay Gould. At the end, the International Socialist Bureau of > Brussels calls for universal revolution.> > http://tinyurl.com/37fvdk> > http://tinyurl.com/2nxmhp
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