Science Against the Day Labor

[Don Higgins]

 Maybe, maybe not. Groovy wouldn't have been groovy in the late '70s or in the '80s. I have a French dictionary of slang from the early '70s and my French teacher warned me against using it in the late '80s. Maybe things move faster these days, but slang can be very specific to a time period. We might never know what P wanted the dictionary for, but maybe we'll get one more big, brilliant novel. I don't think we'll get more than one, if that. Of course TPR sr lived a long time and worked till the end, according to his obituary, so who knows. I wonder if P saved his papers and if there's a trove of unpublished fiction waiting for scholars to pour over and for heirs to exploit.


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From: Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>



I'm going to repeat, just cause I got nothing else to say, that I would think he used this for AGAINST THE DAY. ....slang usually spreads most after it is codified; codification means wider usage. 

Dickens' Scrooge, for example. Pynchon's own first OED citation for "shrink", for example, 
From 1967 but used by all of us since.
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