> wonder if it would hold up? Mysteries too tied to
music trends or
> hipster lingo date very badly. It's like watching a
rerun of "77
> Sunset Strip" and listening to Kookie go through his
patter. Too
> gone Daddy.
I've been watching reruns of 77 Sunset Strip lately and I'll
have to say that they're actually as good as I remember them.
I disagree with your point on slang. To say something is
"dated" suggests you're talking about a story from the
not-too-distant-past, in which their is a lot of slang from a
period in which it has just recently been out of vogue. If
you're reading the same story or watching a show like 77SS 50
years later it helps recreate the whole time period and can
be nostaglic (if you're old enough), fresh again, or new to
you (if you weren''t around then) and interesting to hear the
patter as spoken by hipsters circa 1960. I laugh when I hear
Kookie again all these years later, just like we laughed at
him then. Same as hearing Wilbur again in Peter Gunn. It's a
gas, man.
Haven't read Bloch's Dead Beat, but I just recently read
Markson's Epitaph for a Dead Beat and the beatnik lingo
really helps recreate the time period.
Jeff
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