"straightworld"

[alice wellintown]

See page 38 where the term is used twice by Hope.

GWENDOLYN BROOKS: I wrote it because I was passing by a pool hall in
my neighborhood in Chicago one afternoon, and I saw... well, as I said
in the poem, seven boys shooting pool. And I wondered how they felt
about themselves, and I decided that they felt they were not quite
valid, that they certainly were insecure, they were not cherished by
the society, and therefore they would feel that they should, well,
spit in the face of the establishment. I used the month of June as a
symbol, an establishment symbol. Whereas the rest of us love and
respect June, and wait for it to come so we can enjoy it, they would
jazz June, derange it, scratch in it; do anything that would annoy the
establishment.

We real cool. We
Left school. We

Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We

Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We

Jazz June. We
Die soon.



On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Rob Jackson<jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> That'd be "straightworld" as in those who don't smoke pot, i.e.,
> "straights".
>
> "Straight" as opposed to "bent"; definitely not "straight" as opposed to
> "gay".
>
> best regards
>
>
> On 24/08/2009, at 11:41 AM, pynchon-l-digest wrote:
>
>> Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 10:16:44 -0700 (PDT)
>> From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>> Subject: Pecking into Inherent Vice
>>
>> p. 2..."Gentleman of the straightworld persuasion", he [Doc] beamed.
>
>