IV - copacetics....

[Stephen Musgrave]

Am new to this list and loving it already.

 

Thanks to this list I bought a new book - IV - full price in a shop. Not done that for years.

 

Full marks to the poster who tipped Foyle's in London selling it nearly a week ahead of the official publication date.

 

So far have spotted two uses of "copacetic" in IV - is this a fave word of TP? [I will check the other wikis]. I only know it as Copasetic with an 's' as the name of the tapdancers that Billy Strayhorn wrote for on his days off.

 

Did people say "everything is copacetic" to each other in California in the 60s? That and the surely intentionally jarring references to 60s British beat bands - not to say most of the musical references in IV - have me in stitches. I see someone has already recited the "what did the Grateful Dead fan say when he ran out of gear" joke. Isn't this where TP is coming from in IV? He's picked "gumshoe noir" as its setting because he knows it inside out and it frames what he wants to say perfectly - the dream is over but nobody seems to have noticed yet....

 

But the best aspect of IV is it will send me back to all his others.

 

S.

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