Pecking into Inherent Vice

[Mark Kohut]

Well, I did, but too hastily with only the early Google pages results thought  that all the citations i got were later than 1970....or were gay/straight-related with a wrong contraction...........

BUT

It turns out that one major underground paper,--others I'm sure--- full of the ethos of the time, sez this book, printed the words as one regularly. 
London-based and called "Gandalf's Garden".  

http://books.google.com/books?id=jiMOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA75&lpg=PA75&dq=%22straightworld%22&source=bl&ots=V0U0IlV9HO&sig=gl22beLGbaRRbqi00cB9tXb1eho&hl=en&ei=NIKRSpGoBMitlAfX3NCjDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3#v=onepage&q=%22straightworld%22&f=false

--- On Sun, 8/23/09, Keith <keithsz at mac.com> wrote:

> From: Keith <keithsz at mac.com>
> Subject: Re: Pecking into Inherent Vice
> To: "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Date: Sunday, August 23, 2009, 1:38 PM
> Put quotes around it when you Google
> it and it'll give you any one word references.
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> Pynch probably contracted it.
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> On Aug 23, 2009, at 10:16 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:
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> p. 2..."Gentleman of the straightworld persuasion", he
> [Doc] beamed.
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> Anybody else surprised by this sentence? Anyone have access
> to an OED?
> Was straightworld a single word in 1970?  I only know
> it---and Googling
> it--- only leads to two words, "straight
> world"......Printing mistake?
> Neologism?
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> What is he asking? Not about the guy's sexual orientation,
> we know. Straight meaning establishment? vs. their
> counter-culture world?
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> Online, nother scientific meaning:
> We define a straight world line as the history of an
> unaccelerated par- ticle. In spacetime diagrams such world
> lines will also be drawn as straight lines. ...
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> Related to flatland in IV? You Californians of an age (or
> who know history
> better'n me). Was that word used in California then the way
> it is in IV? This flatlander never heard it.
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