IV - copacetics....

[Mark Kohut]

Stephen,

Nice post and a hearty welcome to you.....may I ask, we have sorta all agreed not to 'spoil' with tidbits and not to start the group read until later...

Mark

--- On Wed, 8/5/09, Stephen Musgrave <muzza8k at hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Stephen Musgrave <muzza8k at hotmail.com>
> Subject: IV - copacetics....
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Wednesday, August 5, 2009, 9:28 AM
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> Am new to this list and loving it already.
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> Thanks to this list I bought a new book - IV - full price
> in a shop. Not done that for years.
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> Full marks to the poster who tipped Foyle's in
> London selling it nearly a week ahead of the official
> publication date.
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> 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.
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> 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....
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> But the best aspect of IV is it will send me back to all
> his others.
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> S.
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