Difference between revisions of "Chapter 21"

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'''. . . the Lakers would lose Game 7 of the finals to the Knicks'''<br />
 
'''. . . the Lakers would lose Game 7 of the finals to the Knicks'''<br />
 
Friday, May 8, 1970. The final score was Knicks 113, Lakers 99.
 
Friday, May 8, 1970. The final score was Knicks 113, Lakers 99.
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'''Ones and zeros'''<br>
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Binary code, the language of computers. Also mentioned in ''Vineland'' (pp. 90 and 115).
  
 
==Pages 368/369==
 
==Pages 368/369==

Revision as of 02:10, 6 August 2009

Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.

Page numbers refer to editions with 369 pages, where the story begins on page 1. Not sure if there are other editions with variant pagination. Please let us know otherwise.

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. . . the Lakers would lose Game 7 of the finals to the Knicks
Friday, May 8, 1970. The final score was Knicks 113, Lakers 99.

Page 365

Ones and zeros
Binary code, the language of computers. Also mentioned in Vineland (pp. 90 and 115).

Pages 368/369

Gordita Beach Exit
On the last two pages of Inherent Vice, Doc Sportello is on the Santa Monica freeway which then merges onto the San Diego, heading south:

Doc figured if he missed the Gordita Beach exit he'd take the first one whose sign he could read and work his way back on surface streets. He knew that at Rosecrans the freeway began to dogleg east, and at some point, Hawthorne Boulevard or Artesia, he'd lose the fog.

This series of street names and off-ramps points to Manhattan Beach where it is believed Pynchon wrote much of Gravity's Rainbow while living in a tiny beach apartment in the north end of the city around 1969 or 1970. The Manhattan Beach Boulevard exit Is between the Rosecrans exit and the Hawthorne exit. The Artesia exit is after Hawthorne. Google Maps; Much more about Pynchon in Manhattan Beach...


Chapter 1
pp. 1-18
Chapter 2
pp. 19-45
Chapter 3
pp. 46-49
Chapter 4
pp. 50-54
Chapter 5
pp. 55-67
Chapter 6
pp. 68-88
Chapter 7
pp. 89-110
Chapter 8
pp. 111-123
Chapter 9
pp. 124-153
Chapter 10
pp. 154-162
Chapter 11
pp. 163-185
Chapter 12
pp. 186-206
Chapter 13
pp. 207-234
Chapter 14
pp. 235-255
Chapter 15
pp. 256-274
Chapter 16
pp. 275-295
Chapter 17
pp. 296-314
Chapter 18
pp. 315-342
Chapter 19
pp. 343-350
Chapter 20
pp. 351-363
Chapter 21
pp. 364-369
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