Some notes and Obs on pp. 667 ff

[Mark Kohut]

Subject: SKEEZICKS --------[p 667, beginning para, line 2]
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 10:36:23 -0700 
In the TIMES Word Watching column the word SKEEZICKS appeared. The definition: A good-for-nothing rogue. U.S. slang. Fanciful? 1908: This is a poor skeezicks that's got nothing to eat but an onion. I wonder if there is any relationship between this SKEEZICKS an another SKEEZIX (note spelling) from the very early comic strip "Gasoline Alley."
___Willard___
 
"roguish readjustment"....nice phrase, yes?
 
"all the go"...evidently a phrase in circulation meaning "all the rage"...comes from a song collected in an 1883 book:
ALL THE GO. AKA and see “Jenny’s Chickens,” “Sleepy Maggy/Maggie.” Irish, Scottish; Reel. B Minor. Standard tuning. AB. “All the Go” is two parts of the Irish melody “Jenny’s Chickens,” and is known in Scotland as “Sleepy Maggie.” Cole (1000 Fiddle Tunes), 1940; pg. 35. Ryan’s Mammoth Collection, 1883; pg. 61.
 
Auction bridge
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Auction Bridge (card game)

Typetrick-taking
Players4
Deck52-card
CardsAnglo-American
PlayClockwise
Card rank
(highest to lowest)A K Q J 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2
Related gamesWhist, Contract Bridge


The card game auction bridge was developed from straight bridge and was a predecessor to contract bridge.
The main difference between auction bridge and contract bridge is that in auction bridge a game is scored whenever the required number of tricks (9 in No Trump, 10 in Hearts or Spades, 11 in Clubs or Diamonds) is scored. In contract bridge the number of points from tricks taken past the bid do not count towards making a game. Because of this, accurate bidding becomes much more important in contract bridge:
 
Vint - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Vint is a Russian card-game, similar to both bridge and whist and it is ... Vint means a screw in Russian, and the name is given to the game because the ...

 
 "Easy me" [thinks Kit about Reef]..remember this contectual meaning to easy:  casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior; "her easy virtue"; 
A-and: In CRAPS, roll of dice which the two-dice combinations of 4, 6, 8, 10, are rolled other than pairs.
 
The sentence "Across the vast....incandescent"...strikes me as infelicitous......a little stumble from OBA to my ears. Others, what thnk ye? 
If she is jealous of Reef's flirting with Yashmeen, does that show 'love' for him or just the narcissism of a beautiful woman who wants all male
attention to go her way?
 
She characterizes Yashmeen rather bitchily, no? 
Wog - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Many dictionaries say "wog" possibly derives from the Golliwogg, a blackface minstrel doll character from a children's book published in 1895. ...

 
Reef says "Strictly business, 'Pert"...
Page has recently unearthed these older meanings to 'business":
 OED, 2nd ed. Business (Begins with ten of obsolete uses. I am skipping the
more mundane contemporay definitions--e.g. "A person's official or
professional duties as a whole; stated occupation, profession, or trade.")
(Obs.) 3. Mischievous or impertinent activity
(Obs.) 5. Anxiety, solicitude, care, distress, uneasiness
(Obs. 7. a. Trouble, difficulty
(Obs.) 111. 10. a. The object of anxiety or serious effort
The most interesting contemporary meaning is:
13. a. In a general sense: action which occupies time, demands attention and
labour, esp. serious occupation, work, as opposed to pleasure or recreation
 
TRP layers in old and common mundane meanings of business here in his remark to 'Pert"---itself a punny nickname.
Page has reminded that TRP wrote on the dust jacket: Meanwhile "Thomas Pynchon is up to his usual business".

avantyuristka = adventuress

Kit, despite mathematical intelligence, knows he can't "get" Yashmeen's looks at him.


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