IV, question: re-up

[Albert Rolls]

Re-up

intransitive verb , 

Military Slang to reenlist

I think the drug context is from a later period. At least we never used that expression 25 or so years ago.


-----Original Message-----
>From: János Széky <miksaapja at gmail.com>
>Sent: Aug 17, 2011 1:05 PM
>To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: IV, question: re-up
>
>In IV, page 103 Spike recounts his prehistory with Sortilege after
>high school, "next thing anybody knew I was going, well, maybe I won't
>re-up after all". I know what re-up means in a drug context but how
>does it fit in here? Does "I was going" mean going to Viet Nam or
>something else?
>
>Thanks,
>János