IVIV (1) From The Desert To The Sea (And All Of Southern California)

[rich]

do we give Pynchon too much credit sometimes?

e.g. this whole thing on Reet and REIT

it seems like a leap to me

this definition could be as good as any: one such one: "Reet" is
fairly common pre-80s slang for "good"/"excellent"/"awesome"

Jackie Wilson's song "Reet Petite"?



On 8/26/09, Keith <keithsz at mac.com> wrote:
> "....with her phenomenal lot-by-lot grasp of land use from the desert
> to the sea, as they liked to say on the evening news" (p. 6)
>
> they = Jerry Dunphy
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Dunphy
>
> There's no footage of him uttering the words from a newscast - however:
>
> Here he is:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiB6-4C6LvI
>
> And he wrote the lyrics to this:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/nnvscm
>