RE: mild drug SPOILER Re: other stoned detectives? Re: finished IV…

[Carvill John]

Thanks Heikki. And Robin, it wasn't that I hadn't heard the 'x sheets to the wind' expression before - come on, I'm Irish, we wrote the book then spilled Guinness on it.

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> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:34:14 +0300
> From: hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Re: Re: mild drug SPOILER Re: other stoned detectives? Re: finished IV…
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>
> On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Robin Landseadel wrote:
>> " . . .I think the phrase used was 'five sheets to the wind'. "
>> Borrowed from Tom Waits, as I recall.
>
> Just a small detail: the subtitle of "Tom Traubert's Blues" is "Four Sheets
> to the Wind in Copenhagen". (The song was partly inspired by an intoxicated
> night Waits spent in Copenhagen with a Danish female singer.)
>
>
> Heikki

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