a couple three would be less than several couple

Sun Sep 16 16:28:20 CDT 2007

Went to the local Borders today to get away from familynoise and try to get some work accomplished ... when leaving, I noticed that the scroll version of On The Road has now hit the shelves ... maybe I'll get it when it comes out in paperback ... at the moment, I have more important things to spend $25 on ...

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Paul Mackin 
  To: pynchon-l at waste.org 
  Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2007 3:06 PM
  Subject: a couple three would be less than several couple

  Perusing the new Library of America edition of "On the Road" I came across the expression "several couple."

  A fellow from Mississippi whom Sal meets traversing America hasn't "seed his sister"  in "several couple" years. 

  (Kerouac--Road Novels--1957-1960, p. 23)

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