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Chapter 13

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==Page 207==
'''The vibes around Robbery-Homicide Division this morning''' 
Morning, Tuesday, April 28, 1970.

==Page 208==
'''Code 7''' 
Meal break.

'''Swedish pancakes with lingonberries''' 
Possibly a Big Lebowski reference, since lingonberry pancakes are consumed by some of the faux-kidnapper Nihilists in that film.

However, may also just be a reference to Bjornsen's Swedish heritage, those being traditional Swedish foods.

'''Cielo Drive''' 
Site of the Manson family murders. More [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10050_Cielo_Drive here].

'''endless summer''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Endless_Summer The Endless Summer] is one of the first and most famous surfing films. And let's not forget The Endless/Eternal Summer Surf Shop on the [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Inherent_Vice_cover_analysis cover] of Inherent Vice.

==Page 209==

'''Black Dahlia''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_dahlia Elizabeth Short] Victim of a famous unsolved murder.

'''Tom Ince''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_H._Ince Major film industry figure] On November 19, 1924, Ince died, officially of a heart attack suffered while on a weekend boat trip with William Randolph Hearst aboard Hearst's lavish yacht, the ''Oneida'', while attending a cruise in honor of Ince's 42nd birthday. Since then, rumors have circulated that Hearst murdered Ince in a fit of jealousy. The 2001 film [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cat%27s_Meow The Cat's Meow] was inspired by the murder rumors.

==Page 210==

'''deperate''' 
Typo for desperate.

==Page 211==
'''Evelyn Wood''' 
Developed a system for speed reading. More [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Wood_(teacher) here].

'''Fontana''' 
A city in San Bernardino County, roughly 50 miles east of Los Angeles.

'''Puck's file could be in storage...someplace like Fontana....''' 
Possibly an oblique reference to the 1939 crime novel [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Sleep ''The Big Sleep'']. Art Huck's chop shop where Eddie Mars' wife is hiding out is located a mile beyond Realito (Rialto). Fontana is adjacent to Rialto in San Bernadino County.

==Page 212==
'''"Chotto, Kenichiro! Dozo, motto panukeiku."''' 
Hey, Ken! Please, more pancakes. (''Pannukakku'': Finnish Oven Baked Pancake)

'''man goes around like Prince Charles, like they're going to crown him chief any day''' 
And, of course, it's now nearly 40 years later, and Prince Charles is, as Talking Heads always say, still waiting...

==Page 216==
'''Waiting at the office when Doc got back from lunch''' 
afternoon, Tuesday, April 28, 1970.

'''Trillium''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillium trillium] is a genus of about 40-50 species of perennial herbaceous flowering plants.

'''Fortnight''' 
Fortnight = Brit. for two weeks, or a pun on 'too weak,' which describes this flower child's penchant for abuse.

==Page 217==

'''early-music''' 
Usually European music from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, but sometimes used to include the Baroque as well. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_music Wiki.] Being involved in the early music scene during the time frame of the novel meant being a member of the classical music avant-garde.

'''double-quint pommer''' 
Very low voiced, large instrument that could be almost ten feet long.

'''sopranino shawm''' 
Small instrument voiced higher than soprano that could be around twenty inches long.

==Page 218==
[[File:1969_red_Camaro.jpg|thumb|right|1969 Camaro [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1969_red_Chevrolet_Camaro_SS_side.JPG © BrokenSphere / Wikimedia Commons ]]]
''''69 Camaro''' 
a bright red '69 Camaro

==Page 219==
'''mug ... intended to keep the mustache of the drinker from getting soaked ... belonged to Marshal Earp''' 
Perhaps only a bizarre coincidence, but a colleague who worked with Pynchon at Boeing in the early '60s, speaking in 1990, described Pynchon as having sported a [http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19900114&slug=1050692 "kind of Wyatt Earp-type handlebar mustache."]

==Page 221==
'''They drove toward a spectacular desert sunset''' 
Evening, Tuesday, April 28, 1970.

==Page 223==
[[File:1962Bonneville.jpg|thumb|right|1962 Bonneville, photo by [http://www.flickr.com/photos/jacksnell707/3212233895/in/set-72157608598376503/ Jack Snell / Creative Commons]]]
''''62 Bonneville''' a stolen '62 Bonneville parked in a cul-de-sac off Sunset

'''"Are you apologizing?" "I don't think so."''' 
Reminiscent of Bigfoot on [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_2#Page_35 page 35].

==Page 224==
'''quien es mas macho'''

Subject of a Saturday Night Live skit--Season 4, Episode 12 (2/17/79).

==Page 225==
'''Ernest Tubb, Jim Reeves, and Webb Pierce''' 
aka, old school country music.

'''John Garfield'''
John Garfield (March 4, 1913 – May 21, 1952) was an American actor. Garfield was especially adept at playing brooding, rebellious, working-class character roles. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Garfield]

'''Puck and Einar might not be in tonight.''' 
Evening, Tuesday, April 28, 1970.

==Page 226==
'''Meantime there's the rent coming due and so forth.''' 
Plausible enough, as it's Tuesday, April 28, 1970.

==Page 228==
'''Wild Bill Hickok's last poker hand''' 
Maybe the most (in)famous hand in poker history. When Hickok was shot dead in 1876, he was playing poker and holding two pair: aces and eights. Since then, that hand has been called [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_man%27s_hand "Dead Man's Hand"].

==Page 232==
'''Next thing he knew it seemed to be early afternoon''' 
Afternoon, Wednesday, April 29, 1970.

'''As it was getting dark, Trillium finally showed up.''' 
Evening, Wednesday, April 29, 1970.

==Page 233==
'''Dietz & Schwartz, ''Haunted Heart''''' 

:In the night, 
:though we're apart 
:there's a ghost of you 
:within my haunted heart . . . 

:Ghost of you, 
:my last romance, 
:lips that laughed, 
:eyes that danced . . . 

:Haunted heart 
:won't let me be 
:dreams repeat a sweet 
:but lonely song to me . . . 

:Dreams are dust, 
:it's you who must 
:belong to me . . . 
:and thrill my haunted heart . . . 

:Be still, my haunted heart . . . 

:< instrumental break > 

:Dreams are dust, 
:it's you who must 
:belong to me . . . 
:and thrill my haunted heart . . . 

:Be still, my haunted heart . . . 

--from the musical production ''Inside U.S.A.''
Music by Arthur Schwartz
with lyrics by Howard Dietz, 1948

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLbSwaWaFx0 Listen] to Renee Fleming.

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Chapter 13

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==Page 207==
'''The vibes around Robbery-Homicide Division this morning''' 
Morning, Tuesday, April 28, 1970.

==Page 208==
'''Code 7''' 
Meal break.

'''Swedish pancakes with lingonberries''' 
Possibly a Big Lebowski reference, since lingonberry pancakes are consumed by some of the faux-kidnapper Nihilists in that film.

However, may also just be a reference to Bjornsen's Swedish heritage, those being traditional Swedish foods.

'''Cielo Drive''' 
Site of the Manson family murders. More [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10050_Cielo_Drive here].

'''endless summer''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Endless_Summer The Endless Summer] is one of the first and most famous surfing films. And let's not forget The Endless/Eternal Summer Surf Shop on the [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Inherent_Vice_cover_analysis cover] of Inherent Vice.

==Page 209==

'''Black Dahlia''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_dahlia Elizabeth Short] Victim of a famous unsolved murder.

'''Tom Ince''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_H._Ince Major film industry figure] On November 19, 1924, Ince died, officially of a heart attack suffered while on a weekend boat trip with William Randolph Hearst aboard Hearst's lavish yacht, the ''Oneida'', while attending a cruise in honor of Ince's 42nd birthday. Since then, rumors have circulated that Hearst murdered Ince in a fit of jealousy. The 2001 film [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cat%27s_Meow The Cat's Meow] was inspired by the murder rumors.

==Page 210==

'''deperate''' 
Typo for desperate.

==Page 211==
'''Evelyn Wood''' 
Developed a system for speed reading. More [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Wood_(teacher) here].

'''Fontana''' 
A city in San Bernardino County, roughly 50 miles east of Los Angeles.

'''Puck's file could be in storage...someplace like Fontana....''' 
Possibly an oblique reference to the 1939 crime novel [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Sleep ''The Big Sleep'']. Art Huck's chop shop where Eddie Mars' wife is hiding out is located a mile beyond Realito (Rialto). Fontana is adjacent to Rialto in San Bernadino County.

==Page 212==
'''"Chotto, Kenichiro! Dozo, motto panukeiku."''' 
Hey, Ken! Please, more pancakes. (''Pannukakku'': Finnish Oven Baked Pancake)

'''man goes around like Prince Charles, like they're going to crown him chief any day''' 
And, of course, it's now nearly 40 years later, and Prince Charles is, as Talking Heads always say, still waiting...

==Page 216==
'''Waiting at the office when Doc got back from lunch''' 
afternoon, Tuesday, April 28, 1970.

'''Trillium''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillium trillium] is a genus of about 40-50 species of perennial herbaceous flowering plants.

'''Fortnight''' 
Fortnight = Brit. for two weeks, or a pun on 'too weak,' which describes this flower child's bent for masochism.

==Page 217==

'''early-music''' 
Usually European music from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, but sometimes used to include the Baroque as well. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_music Wiki.] Being involved in the early music scene during the time frame of the novel meant being a member of the classical music avant-garde.

'''double-quint pommer''' 
Very low voiced, large instrument that could be almost ten feet long.

'''sopranino shawm''' 
Small instrument voiced higher than soprano that could be around twenty inches long.

==Page 218==
[[File:1969_red_Camaro.jpg|thumb|right|1969 Camaro [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1969_red_Chevrolet_Camaro_SS_side.JPG © BrokenSphere / Wikimedia Commons ]]]
''''69 Camaro''' 
a bright red '69 Camaro

==Page 219==
'''mug ... intended to keep the mustache of the drinker from getting soaked ... belonged to Marshal Earp''' 
Perhaps only a bizarre coincidence, but a colleague who worked with Pynchon at Boeing in the early '60s, speaking in 1990, described Pynchon as having sported a [http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19900114&slug=1050692 "kind of Wyatt Earp-type handlebar mustache."]

==Page 221==
'''They drove toward a spectacular desert sunset''' 
Evening, Tuesday, April 28, 1970.

==Page 223==
[[File:1962Bonneville.jpg|thumb|right|1962 Bonneville, photo by [http://www.flickr.com/photos/jacksnell707/3212233895/in/set-72157608598376503/ Jack Snell / Creative Commons]]]
''''62 Bonneville''' a stolen '62 Bonneville parked in a cul-de-sac off Sunset

'''"Are you apologizing?" "I don't think so."''' 
Reminiscent of Bigfoot on [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_2#Page_35 page 35].

==Page 224==
'''quien es mas macho'''

Subject of a Saturday Night Live skit--Season 4, Episode 12 (2/17/79).

==Page 225==
'''Ernest Tubb, Jim Reeves, and Webb Pierce''' 
aka, old school country music.

'''John Garfield'''
John Garfield (March 4, 1913 – May 21, 1952) was an American actor. Garfield was especially adept at playing brooding, rebellious, working-class character roles. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Garfield]

'''Puck and Einar might not be in tonight.''' 
Evening, Tuesday, April 28, 1970.

==Page 226==
'''Meantime there's the rent coming due and so forth.''' 
Plausible enough, as it's Tuesday, April 28, 1970.

==Page 228==
'''Wild Bill Hickok's last poker hand''' 
Maybe the most (in)famous hand in poker history. When Hickok was shot dead in 1876, he was playing poker and holding two pair: aces and eights. Since then, that hand has been called [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_man%27s_hand "Dead Man's Hand"].

==Page 232==
'''Next thing he knew it seemed to be early afternoon''' 
Afternoon, Wednesday, April 29, 1970.

'''As it was getting dark, Trillium finally showed up.''' 
Evening, Wednesday, April 29, 1970.

==Page 233==
'''Dietz & Schwartz, ''Haunted Heart''''' 

:In the night, 
:though we're apart 
:there's a ghost of you 
:within my haunted heart . . . 

:Ghost of you, 
:my last romance, 
:lips that laughed, 
:eyes that danced . . . 

:Haunted heart 
:won't let me be 
:dreams repeat a sweet 
:but lonely song to me . . . 

:Dreams are dust, 
:it's you who must 
:belong to me . . . 
:and thrill my haunted heart . . . 

:Be still, my haunted heart . . . 

:< instrumental break > 

:Dreams are dust, 
:it's you who must 
:belong to me . . . 
:and thrill my haunted heart . . . 

:Be still, my haunted heart . . . 

--from the musical production ''Inside U.S.A.''
Music by Arthur Schwartz
with lyrics by Howard Dietz, 1948

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLbSwaWaFx0 Listen] to Renee Fleming.

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==Page 163==
'''Petit Larousse''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petit_Larousse A French-language encyclopedic dictionary], still in use today. Not really much else to it. Perhaps the reference is merely an insight Doc's character, walking a fine line between educated and dopey.

==Page 166==
'''Brylcreem''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brylcreem Brylcreem] is a hair styling oil/gel for men that was very popular. It gives hair a wet, oily look.

'''on the natch''' 
"natch" is short for "natural" and "on the natch," in this context, means sober. On [[Chapter_15#Page_273|pg. 273]], the perennially sober Bigfoot is described as a "literal-minded natch-meister."

==Page 168==
'''Leuzinger High''' 
A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leuzinger_High_School real] high school, in Lawndale, California, which - particularly in the story's time period - was a relatively undesirable and low-priced city in the LA area.

'''Dr. Blatnoyd''' 
Probably a play on the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blat_%28Russia%29 term] of Russian origin, meaning a man with underworld connections or a career criminal.

==Page 169==
'''Foreign Affairs, Sinsemilla Tips, Modern Psychopath, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists''' Foreign Affairs is a real (and highly-respected) journal, as is Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists; the other two are fake. Sinsemilla is a highly potent form of marijuana obtained from unpollinated female plants. Modern Psychpath is probably a takeoff on either Modern Psychoanalysis or (Journal of) Modern Psychology, both real journals.

==Page 170==
'''Section Eight hippies''' 
Section Eight is low income housing funded with a federal subsidy.

Section Eight was also the military term for mentally unfit to serve, as veterans of "McHale's Navy" or "M*A*S*H" might recall, and it may sum up the Golden Fang view of people like Doc.

==Page 171==
'''Japonica Fenway''' 
"Japonica" is just a Latinization of "Japanese," but it is most commonly used in formal Latin plant names. There are a wide variety of "____ Japonica" plants, such as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camellia_japonica Camellia Japonica]. While it's not really possible to make any universal statement about such widely varied species, they tend to be ornamental and hardy. [[Plants of Inherent Vice|See: Plants of Inherent Vice]]

'''Crocker Fenway''' 
It is possible the first name is inspired by the character "Crocker Jarmon" from the movie [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068334/ The Candidate (1972)]. The character in the movie is an establishment, incumbent GOP Senator from California.

The first names of both characters may also refer to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocker_National_Bank Crocker National Bank], which historically was a conservative, Republican institution. [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,847658,00.html 1936 Time Magazine reference], [http://articles.latimes.com/1986-05-27/business/fi-7509_1 1986 Article].

'''though Doc may once have rescued Japonica''' 
Reminiscent of Carmen Sternwood, the unstable babe in Raymond Chandler's ''The Big Sleep'' (1939), and her rescue by detective Philip Marlowe. There was a wealthy father there, too.

'''the ancient American Indian belief that if you save somebody's life, you are responsible for them from then on, forever''' 
Last seen in Against the Day with Foley Walker and Scarsdale Vibe.

==Page 172==
'''Governor Reagan''' 
Ronald Reagan was governor of California from 1967 to 1975.

==Page 174==
'''"Miss Fenway," the doctor began to explain, "may seem a little psychotic today..."''' 
Reminiscent of the psychodontist, Dr. Dudley Eigenvalue, in V. From page 138 of that book (the beginning of chapter seven): "Back around the turn of the century, psychoanalysis had usurped from the priesthood the role of father-confessor. Now, it seemed, the analyst in his turn was about to be deposed by, of all people, the dentist." In general, "Smile Maintenance," at least as practiced by Dr. Blatnoyd, seems to cover some mixture of dentistry, psychology, and "hoddible fucking!"

==Page 175==
[[File:MercedesSedan.jpg|thumb|200px|right|1960 Mercedes-Benz W128 Sedan, image from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_W128 Wikipedia]]]
'''Mercedes sedan''' 
ten-year-old Mercedes sedan with a roof panel

'''late rush-hour traffic''' 
Should be afternoon, the thirteenth day of the narrative, Sunday, April 5, 1970, but why would there be rush hour traffic? Why would postcards be delivered today, and why would the Golden Fang be open?.

==Page 176==
'''outdoor concerts where thousands . . . public self''' 
A good description of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock Woodstock], which had just taken place the previous year.

'''each person was listening in solitude, confinement and mutual silence''' 
Perhaps a foreshadowing of the iPod generation?

'''''head''phones!''' 
Here, "head" refers to a drug user, as in [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=head+shop "head shop"].

'''Doc noticed (a) it was now dark''' 
Should be evening, the thirteenth day of the narrative, Sunday, April 5, 1970.

==Page 180==
'''Things were weird for a few days with the Dart''' 
The timeline gets broken here. From the end of the book to this point--from April 26 to May 8--the narrator has made it easy to follow the events of the book in real time. The narrator puts Doc to bed at night, gets him up in the morning, points out television shows and events.

The first half of the book, thirteen days up to the "few days" the Dart was in the shop, can also be matched with real time events. For example, Doc's parents visit during a division semifinal game between the 76ers and the Bucks. That series was played from March 25 to April 3. That would mean that the Dart was in the shop for a couple of weeks. Given the regret that Doc felt over a less-than-24-hour delay in the first and second days of the narrative, it's difficult to believe that he would drop the case for that long. Perhaps some kind of ''Dark Shadows'' parallel time is at work.

Or maybe Pynchon, contrary to reputation but like most authors, hasn't been perfectly careful about the relationship between his story's timeline and the real calendar's.

'''When he finally went over to pick up his ride''' 
Probably morning, Saturday, April 25, 1970. See below for an explanation of "probably". The obvious reference is to the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who also came back on a Sunday. This is not Easter Sunday, though. It occurred on March 29 in 1970.

==Page 181==

'''Quonset hut''' 
Prefabricated metal building with a semicircular cross section. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quonset_hut Wikipedia]

''''64 Dodge Dart'''
[[Image:1964_Dodge_Dart.jpg|left|thumb|210px|1964 Dodge Dart Sedan, photo by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:64_Dodge_Dart_F34.jpg Scheinwerfermann]
]]

 
==Page 182==
'''I'll buy you lunch''' 
Probably morning, Saturday, April 25, 1970. I say probably because it seems unlikely that Doc could have lunch with Tito, make a few phone calls, and drive to Ojai, getting there before lunchtime. The narrator has been pretty careful, though, from the end of the book to this point in noting the ends and beginnings of days.

'''They went down Pico . . . before repeating an ethnic category.''' 
A possible nod to noted LA chowhound Johnathan Gold, who got his start as a Pulitzer Prize winning food critic eating his way across ethnic LA along Pico Blvd. Profiled here on NPR's [http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=110 "This American Life"] (See: ''Act Five. Taste.'')

==Page 184==

'''D and D, Tito''' 
Deaf and Dumb, i.e., my lips are sealed...

'''1934 Hispano-Suiza J12'''
[[File:Hispano-SuizaJ12.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Hispano-Suiza J12, photo from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispano-Suiza Wikipedia]‎]]

==Page 185==

'''Gold fang''' 
According to Google language tools, the Greek for "gold tooth" would be pronounced [http://translate.google.com/translate_t?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&text=gold+tooth&sl=en&tl=el# "chrysó dónti"].

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Movie references in Inherent Vice

2014-12-30T22:50:45Z

Amurr: Changed errant Pete Malloy id from Hawaii Five-0 to Adam 12

References to Movies, Actors, Actresses, Cinematographers, Television, Cartoons, etc.

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==Movies==

7 : "2001: A Space Odyssey", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukeHdiszZmE&feature=related Clip...] 
58 : "Body and Soul" 
58 : "They Made Me a Criminal" 
58 : "Dust Be My Destiny" 
58 : "Saturday's Children" 
59 : "Out of the Fog" 
115 : "Black Narcissus" (1947) 
115 : "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" 
115 : "Metropolis" 
116, 343 : "The Postman Always Rings Twice" (1946) 
147 : "Now, Voyager" (1942), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-KGiwGn1d8 Clip...] 
159 : "O Cangaceiro" 
171 : "Fort Apache" (1948), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvF4ipYg-gQ Clip...] 
196 : "Freaks" (1932) 
204 : "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" 
204 : "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" 
221 : "There's No Business Like Show Business" 
233 : "Kiss Me, Kate" 
247 : "Call Me Madam" 
248 : et cetera et cetera, and so forth as the King of Siam [Yul Brynner] always sez ("The King and I") 
254 : "He Ran All the Way" (1951), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZihmGVjDys Clip...] 
261 : "I Walked with a Zombie" (1943), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUIWTKmDegs Clip...] 
281 : "Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster" (1964) 
281 : "Roman Holiday" (1953) 
286 : "The Wizard of Oz" (1939), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqHCJ6JG-2Y&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ezeemaps%2Ecom%2Fpub%3Fgroup%3D127579%26legend%3D1%26list%3D1%26shuttered%3D1%26add%3D1%26connect%3D1&feature=player_embedded Clip...] 
298 : "Vertigo" (1958) 
318 : "The Big Bounce" (1969) 
336 : "Champion" (1949) 
353 : "A Summer Place" [1959] 
356 : "The Sea Wolf" (1941) 
360 : "Little Miss Broadway" (1938) 

==Actors==

9, 112 : W.C. Fields, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpDD0eOq-0o Clip...] 
9 : Bette Davis 
59, 225, 254, 269, 309, 343, 356 : John Garfield, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGFer3-Aguw Clip...] 
59 : Ida Lupino 
80 : Moe [Howard], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQX5_Dya0d8 Clip...] 
96 : Cheech & Chong, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ozk7fnKilU Clip..] 
115 : Conrad Veidt 
115 : (Rudolf ) Klein-Rogge 
171 : Henry Fonda 
204 : Lee Van Cleef 
204 : Clint Eastwood (played Rowdy Yates in "Rawhide"), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LywAvA_LX2Q&feature=PlayList&p=3E70514DD830F2B2&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=7 Clip...] 
204 : Maggie Smith 
233 : Jonathan Frid (played vampire Barnabas Collins in "Dark Shadows"), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4yl7TrbnoA Clip...] 
245 : Dean Martin 
298 : James Stewart 
298 : Kim Novak 
246 : Stan Laurel 
247 : Ethel Merman 
254 : Shelley Winters 
261 : James "Moondoggie" Darren 
311 : George Sanders 
336 : Kirk Douglas 
356 : Edward G. Robinson, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFLIHamc_ZA&feature=related Clip...] 
360 : Shirley Temple, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTwiLsOFH4A Clip...] 
360 : George Murphy 

==Screenwriters==

254 : Dalton Trumbo, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyWWb9QJOHs Clip...] 
261 : Val Lewton—producer & screenwriter, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val_Lewton Wikipedia] 

==Cinematographers==

254 : James Wong Howe, [http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2776095/james_wong_howe_cinematographer/ Short Video...] 

==Movie Soundtracks==

318 : Mike Curb 

==Television==

9 : "The Flying Nun" 
9 : "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" 
32, 97, 123 : "Mod Squad" 
32, 261 : "Adam 12" 
22 : "Medical Center" 
43 : "The Big Valley" 
47 : behind the door where Carol is standing ("Let's Make a Deal") 
73 : "Star Trek" 
76 : "The Invaders", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBiKSvQWrM8 Clip...] 
89, 246, 354 : Gilligan ("Gilligan's Island") 
92 : l'il buddy ("Gilligan's Island") 
93 : three hour tour ("Gilligan's Island") 
96 : "Marcus Welby" 
97, 202 : Steve McGarret ("Hawaii Five-O"), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF3lknS5aE8&feature=related Clip...] 
118 : "Dr. No" 
123 : "Mod Squad" 
128, 233 : "Dark Shadows" 
133, 246, 354 : the skipper ("Gilligan's Island") 
198 : "Three Stooges" 
200 : Beverly Hillbillies" 
200 : "Green Acres", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izAn5phsyXY Clip...] 
202 : Pete Malloy ("Adam 12") 
244 : Ginger, Mary Ann, Prof ("Gilligan's Island") 
245 : All-Nite Freaky Features 
245 : Godzilligan's Island ("Gilligan's Island"!?) 
246 : Minnow's historic cruise ("Gilligan's Island") 
246 : "Today Show" 
253 : "Let's Make a Deal", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ7ylvsMGvc Clip...] 
254 : the tropic isle ("Gilligan's Island") 
254 : Hawaiian crime fantasies ("Hawaii Five-O") 
254 : Starship Enterprise, ("Star Trek") 
254 : slave girl in a bottle ("I Dream of Jeannie") 
254 : Arnold the Pig ("Green Acres" & "Petticoat Junction") 
254 : Long Branch Saloon ("Gunsmoke") 
261 : Larry Vincent--host for the horror shows Fright Night on KHJ-TV and Seymour's Monster Rally on KTLA, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_xBk3K990g Clip...] 
261 : "The Time Tunnel" 
310 : "The Brady Bunch", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7-07mt6RHs&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ezeemaps%2Ecom%2Fpub%3Fgroup%3D127579%26legend%3D1%26list%3D1%26shuttered%3D1%26add%3D1%26connect%3D1&feature=player_embedded Clip...] 
352 : "Hawaii Five-O", [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXfyhqXxf3E Clip...] 
353 : "Another World" 

==Cartoons==

28 : Donald Duck, Goofy, Daisy 
33 : Happy & Dopey 
40 : Mighty Mouse, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGMLLF2tLZQ&feature=related Clip...] 
106 : Looney Tunes 
128 : Smedley (Chilly Willy & Woody Woodpecker) 
190, 244 : Shaggy (Scooby Doo), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=446gyrQU16k&feature=PlayList&p=1BA7B451EAB2A1FA&index=0&playnext=1 Clip...] 
199 : "The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Hour" 
228 : "Jetsons" 
235 : "Flintstones" 
244 : (voice of Shaggy) Casey Kasem 
326 : Dagwood 
326 : Mr. Dithers (Dagwood Bumstead's boss in the comic strip Blondie) 
326 : Bugs (Bunny) 
326 : Yosemite Sam 
326 : Popeye 
326 : Bluto (Popeye's nemesis) 

==Commercials==

9 : Cal Worthington, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOsLdT4slsk Clip...] 
119 : Charlie the Tuna, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_El2_enNFaI Clip...] 

==Characters==

7 : HAL ("2001: A Space Odyssey"), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_9cc81WFpc&feature=PlayList&p=86FA9692FF36ADA1&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=59 Clip...] 
7, 10, 246 : Godzilla, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8trsDPpAI5E&feature=related Clip...] 
97 : Dr. Steven Kiley (from "Marcus Welby M.D."), [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y10VEkyKd3w Clip...] 
116 : Frank Chambers & Cora Smith ("The Postman Always Rings Twice" 1946) 
204 : Rowdy Yates ("Rawhide") 
360 : Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman ) & Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid ) ("Casablanca" 1942) 
360 : Mildred (Joan Crawford) & Veda (Ann Blyth) ("Mildred Pierce" 1945)

Chapter 1

2014-12-23T21:06:24Z

Amurr:

'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>''' 

==Title==
"Inherent Vice" has a number of meanings. See [[Inherent Vice Title]]. The phrase appears on pg. 351.

==Cover==
The cover illustration is by Maui artist Darshan Zenith (see his [http://www.darshanzenith.com/ Official site]). The piece is called "Eternal Summer," and subtitled, "A 'Retired' Caddy Hearse Greets Daybreak at a Beach Surf Shop." Prints of the painting can be purchased [http://www.cruiserart.com/1959_hawaiian-surf-surfer-surfing-art.htm here]. The 1959 Cadillac Hearse is parked in front of the "Endless Summer Surf Shop" (namechecking the Beach Boys Greatest Hits collection and Bruce Brown's 1966 surfing documentary!).

More info at [[Inherent Vice cover analysis]]

==Book jacket description==
Pynchon himself wrote the copy to the book jacket description of ''Against the Day'' (text [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Against_the_Day_description here]). It is possible that Pynchon did the same for ''Inherent Vice''.

==Epigraph==

'''Under the paving-stones, the beach!''' 
"Sous les pavés, la plage" - slogan dating from the 1968 Paris student riots. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_1968_in_France Wikipedia] Literally, it refers to the paving stones thrown at the police and to the discovery made by the rioting students, after prying up the stones, that there was sand underneath. Figuratively, it uses the metaphor of a beach to allude to the ideal life to be found beneath the confines of society.

For those interested in such things, [http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=37487 here] is an odd and fairly lengthy online discussion about the phrase and its translation which, if nothing else, gives a flavor for how translations can go awry when people start trying to translate metaphors instead of words.

==Dedication==
Like ''Against the Day,'' Inherent Vice has no dedication. Pynchon dedicated three of his previous novels to friends and family: ''Mason & Dixon'' ("For Melanie, and for Jackson"), ''Vineland'' ("For my mother and father"), and ''Gravity's Rainbow'' ("For Richard Fariña").

==Page 1==
'''Country Joe & the Fish T-shirt''' 
A Berkeley-based rock band most widely known for musical protests against the Vietnam War, from 1966 to 1971

'''Tonight she was all in flatland gear,''' 
Night, Tuesday, March 24, 1970, first day of the narrative. It's a lot harder to assign real-world dates to the first half of the narrative than to the second half. It could be some kind of "parallel time" (see [[Chapter_9#Page_128|page 128]]). Many events in the first half of the book do seem to echo events in the second half.

'''Shasta''' 
Shasta is a soft drink brand that reached the peak of its popularity in the 1980s. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shasta_(soft_drink) Wikipedia]. Note that Pynchon has named characters after soda before, e.g. Wicks Cherrycoke in ''Mason & Dixon''.

However, more to the point, "Shasta" is name-connected to Mt. Shasta, long believed by some to be where the Lemurians came after Lemuria sunk into the sea. They also believe in the presence of Bigfoot here, as well as wolfmen. See [http://www.lemurianconnection.com/category/about-mt-shasta/ Mt. Shasta and the Lemurian Connection].
Pynchon is likely familiar with this mythology. ''Vineland'', set in pot country of Northern California, alludes to Yurok myth, and his other works draw on mythology from many traditions.

"Shasta McNasty" was also the name of a fictional band, the subject of a short-lived UPN [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shasta_McNasty sitcom]. The members of the band were three slackers who lived in Venice Beach.

'''They stood in the street light through the kitchen window [http://www.superiorwindowcompany.com] there'd never been much point in putting curtains over and listened to the thumping of the surf from down the hill. Some nights, when the wind was right, you could hear the surf all over town.''' 
Like [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Vineland''], and [http://gravitysrainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/''Gravity's Rainbow''], here a Pynchon book begins with light coming through a window. Also like ''Vineland'', the sentence structure and rhythm is just slightly jarring - that '...in the street light through the kitchen window...' seeming to echo ''Vineland'': "Later than usual one summer morning in 1984, Zoyd Wheeler drifted awake in sunlight through a creeping fig that hung in the window, with a squadron of blue jays stomping around on the roof." In both cases, it's just a little odd that Pynchon doesn't refer to the light 'that shone' through the window. And that creeping fig makes an appearance on [[Chapter_2#Page_36|page 36]] of ''Inherent Vice''.

==Page 2==
'''makeup supposed to look like no makeup or whatever,...''' 
The "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_cosmetics_in_the_1970s natural look]" was popular during the 1970s. Ads told woman that makeup was ''invisible'', "the makeup that ''is'' and ''isn't''." Another ad sez "It looks so convincing you'd swear it isn't makeup." (See: [http://books.google.com/books?id=oNaXkUvTztUC&pg=PA20&sig=FFS2Wbh7rtPlYd7kZrWtiW_cw7M#v=onepage&q=&f=false Disco divas: women and popular culture in the 1970s] By Sherrie A. Inness, page 21)

==Page 3==
'''Dear Abby''' 
Advice column started in 1956 by Pauline Phillips and written under the pen name of Abigail Van Buren. Her daughter, Jeanne Phillips, writes the column today. Oddly, Pauline's twin sister, Eppie Lederer, also wrote an advice column, 'Ask Ann Landers'.

'''Hancock Park''' 
Just south of Hollywood, and one of the most desirable locations in Los Angeles. Hancock Park was developed by the Hancock family and is named after developer-philanthropist G. Allan Hancock, with profits earned from oil drilling in the former Rancho La Brea, home of the famous tar pits. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hancock_Park,_Los_Angeles,_California Wikipedia]

'''"Can't Buy Me Love"''' 
This well-known Beatles hit has a curious connection with two other Beatles tunes touched on in [http://cl49.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''The Crying of Lot 49'']. "She Loves You" is cited outright and there is the parody title "I Want to Kiss Your Feet" in reference to "I Want to Hold Your Hand" by Sick Dick and the Volkswagens (Volkswagens are commonly referred to as Beetles). The German language versions of "She Loves You" and "I Want To Hold Your Hand" were recorded at the same session as "Can't Buy Me Love." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can't_Buy_Me_Love Wikipedia entry for "Can't Buy Me Love"]

[[image:afro-pick.jpg|right|120px|thumb|caption|'fro pick]]''''fro pick in his baggies for protection''' 
An "Afro" pick, aka a comb for the Afro hairstyle; this doesn't necessarily mean Doc has an Afro, only that he borrowed one "for protection" because they generally had fairly sharp metal tines. [But Tariq Khalil on p. 14 stares at Doc's "Afro." TRP notes that his stare, "under different circumstances," would be "offensive"--whatever that may mean.]

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==Page 4==
'''Evelle Younger''' 
Evelle Jansen Younger, District Attorney of Los Angeles County 1964-1971, Attorney General of California from 1971-1979.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelle_Younger Wikipedia]

'''Wilt Chamberlain''' 
Wilton Norman "Wilt" Chamberlain (August 21, 1936 – October 12, 1999), stood 7'1" tall and was one of the greatest centers ever to play basketball in the NBA. Throughout his storied career he played for several teams, including the Los Angeles Lakers from 1968-1973. He later played in and was president of the International Volleyball Association. He once claimed to have had sex with 20,000 women over the years. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilt_Chamberlain Wikipedia]

'''Day-Glo''' 
DayGlo is a tradename, and a common name for blacklight ink or blacklight-reactive ink that glows under a black light, a source of light whose wavelengths are primarily in the ultraviolet. The paint may or may not be colorful under ordinary light. It is also known as fluorescent paint. Very popular in the 1960s and 1970s.

==Page 5==
[[File:59Biarritz.jpg|thumb|200px|right|1959 Cadillac Biarritz, Creative Commons licensed photo from [http://www.flickr.com/photos/82046831@N00/2812155325/ here]]]'''It had been dark at the beach for hours''' 
Night, Tuesday, March 24, 1970, first day of the narrative.

'''1959 Cadillac Biarritz''' 
a luxury version of the Eldorado. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_Eldorado Wikipedia].

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==Page 6==
'''Gordita Beach''' 
This fictional Los Angeles beach town where Doc lives and works is, according to the article [http://www.theaesthetic.com/NewFiles/pynchon.html "Thomas Pynchon and the South Bay"] Pynchon's fictionalized Manhattan Beach where he lived in 1967-1971—/CW/ at [http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=217+33rd+Street.+Manhattan+beach+california&um=1&ie=UTF-8&split=0&gl=us&ei=u956SsSRK4TysgPAr4DvCg&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=image&resnum=1 217 33rd Street]—while working on [http://gravitysrainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow''] And in [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Vineland''], Gordita Beach is where Zoyd Wheeler lived "shortly after Reagan was elected governor of California" (on Jan 3, 1967):

:Zoyd was living down south then, sharing a house in Gordita Beach with elements of a surf band he’d been playing keyboard in since junior high, the Corvairs, along with friends more and less transient. The house was so old that all of its termite clauses and code violations had been waived, on the theory that the next moderate act of nature would finish it off. But having been put up back during an era of overdesign, it proved to be sturdier than it looked, with its old stucco eaten at to reveal generations of paint jobs in different beach town pastels, corroded by salt and petrochemical fogs that flowed in the summers onshore up the sand slopes, on up past Sepulveda, often across the then undeveloped fields, to wrap the San Diego Freeway too. ([http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_3#Page_22 p. 22])
*Pynchon owned a '65 Corvair. the car was so light that one he did a wheelie on the freeway for which the cure was putting a 50 pound bag of cement in the truck which was in the front of this rear wheel drive car-CW?
The [[C#corvairs|Corvairs surf band]] figures in ''Inherent Vice'', as well.

*MAD Magazine-style substitution pun in the name, Gordita Beach: from the Manhattan, an open-faced hot sandwich made with meat and gravy (although there are several different "Manhattan" sandwiches [http://www.columbusfoodie.com/2009/02/17/manhattan-sandwich/][http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/manhattan_sandwich_similar_to_denver_sandwich_western_sandwich/]), to the Gordita, a thick tortilla stuffed with meat stew.

'''Watusi-ing''' 
The Watusi is a solo dance that enjoyed brief popularity during the early 1960s. Its name came from the Batutsi tribe of Rwanda.

'''Aunt Reet''' 
Reet (short for Rita?) is a slang term meaning "right" or "proper". Although it originated in the north of England, the term was also frequently used in LA at the time of this novel.

Reet’s a real estate maven, and her name puns on REIT, or real estate investment trust, a company that buys up malls, office buildings, shopping centers, apartments and master planned communities like Channel View Estates.

'''Tree Section''' 
Section of Manhattan Beach west of Sepulveda Blvd, filled with family homes. Generally more upscale than Doc's neighborhood. The moniker comes from the streets all being named for trees.

==Page 7==
'''''2001: A Space Odyssey''''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey_(film) This 1968 film] by Stanley Kubrick is also mentioned in [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_14#Page_294 chapter 14] of ''Vineland''. It includes a computer named HAL that gains consciousness and kills the ship's crew members. Talking computers also show up on [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_8#Page_115 pg. 115 of ''Vineland''].

'''Godzilla''' 
Pynchon apparently wrote a letter to his editor, Cork Smith, in the 1960s saying that he was working on two books: one on Mason & Dixon, and one loosely inspired by Godzilla. See [http://cl49.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_3 Crying of Lot 49 Chapter 3] & [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_9#Page_142 Vineland, page 142]. It was recounted by Pynchon to his friends that to continue to collect royalties he had to come up with the sentence from his next book. The sentence was something like "Hiro stood in the wreckage of what was once downtown Tokyo and as he looked down at the giant footprint he explained to the insurance adjusters in his Japanese accent 'clearly reptilian.'" [This anecdote is spurious at best. Is there a source for this? Any evidence?]

'''Aryan Brotherhood''' 
White prison gang, also known as The Brand, the AB, or the One-Two, formed by a group of bikers in 1964 at San Quentin State Prison. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan_Brotherhood Wikipedia]

==Page 8==
'''Channel View Estates''' 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_Islands_of_California Channel Islands] are a chain of islands off the coast of southern California.

The name is perhaps intended as a telling contrast with "River View" (or "Riverview"), a common name for neighborhoods, real-estate developments and towns. Wolfmann's development is a "chipboard horror" - basic tract housing for the newly middle-class - and it has no river to view, only a drainage channel. "Ditch View Estates" might have been more pointed, if less believable.

Possibly a reference to "channels" on a television set with countless "viewers" looking at the tube in the Los Angeles city sprawl of future single-family homes.

'''Bigfoot Bjornsen'''

Bjornsen="son of the bear" in Swedish and Norwegian. The Old English equivalent of Bjorn is "Beorn", the name of the shapeshifter in ''The Hobbit'' who assumes the form of a bear. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beorn]

==Page 9==
'''Flying Nun, The''' 
The Flying Nun (ABC sitcom '67-'70) starred Sally Field (who also played surf bunny Gidget in an earlier sitcom) as a young nun with a talent for catching the wind like a wave. Despite the reference to Bigfoot playing "comical Mexicans," the series actually took place in Puerto Rico. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Nun,_The Wikipedia]

'''Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea''' 
TV show running on ABC from 1964-68 based on a 1961 movie by the same name. It featured the adventures of the world's first privately owned nuclear submarine, the SSRN Seaview. Many of plots were based on contemporary political issues, though some 'monster' episodes appeared as well--think ''Star Trek'' in the ocean. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyage_to_the_Bottom_of_the_Sea_(TV_series) Wikipedia]

'''SAG''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_Actors_Guild The Screen Actors Guild]

'''Zody''' 
An anagram for Zoyd, one of the main characters in ''Vineland''. Also ''Zody's'', a chain of discount stores [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zody's Wikipedia].

'''Cal Worthington''' 
If Used-Car dealer Cal Worthington didn't exist, someone would have to invent him. Famous for his TV ads throughout California and his dog "Spot" [usually an exotic animal] the many parodies of Cal never exceed his own bizarre ads. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOsLdT4slsk YouTube] Worthington's ads were parodies themselves of an escalating competition between auto dealers to try to get viewer attention. The "dog" Spot was a riff on the German Shepherd (actual) dog featured in the commercials of the biggest multi-lot dealer, Ralph Williams. While Worthington looked and dressed like a typical East L.A. Okie and played country & western music on his own show, [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1075762 "Cal's Corral"], he was actually cognitively aligned more with Doc's scene, among other things, sponsoring the left-wing television show of Mort Sahl.

'''Freak Power''' 
Hunter S. Thompson ran unsuccessfully for mayor and sheriff of Aspen, Colorado in 1969 and 1970. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_of_Aspen Wikipedia] Unsure if "freak power" was a term Thompson coined?

'''W. C. Fields''' 
American comedian, actor and juggler (1880-1946). Fields created one of the great American comic personas of the first half of the 20th century: a misanthropic and hard-drinking egotist who remained a sympathetic character despite his snarling contempt for dogs, children, and women.

==Page 10==
'''“... oh, here, finish this up if you want.”''' 
Denis is offering Doc a ''roach'' (the remainder of a marijuna cigarette) that is still burning.

'''“Thanks, all’s ‘at’ll do’s just burn my lip.”''' 
Apparently, Doc is declining the offer because the roach is so small it can barely be held with fingertips and, even if held by a roach clip, would become a tiny hot coal at the instant of inhalation as air was sucked through it. Whether held by fingers, touched to lips, or inhaled into the mouth, such a roach was only fit for someone desperate for a buzz. Thus we learn Doc is not desperate and suppose Denis would have reserved more to offer if he were more of a friend. N’ertheless, the herb begs to be shared with kindred spirits so Denis made the offer ''pro forma.''

'''“...like Godzilla always sez to Mothra--why don't we go eat some place?”''' 
A joke based on the fact that entire cities are often destroyed in these monster movies.

'''''Sugar, Sugar''''' 
Real song released in 1969 by the fictional band ''The Archies'' which was 'composed' of the main characters in the Archie comic book series. The song was recorded by session musicians and released in the context of the Tube series ''The Archie Show''. It remains a paragon of the Bubblegum Pop genre.

'''Gottlieb machines''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlieb Gottlieb] is a corporation that makes pinball machines and arcade games. Pynchon has a history with pinball tables going back at least as far as Gravity's Rainbow. Sidney Gottlieb headed the CIA's MK-Ultra project, way back in 1953. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Gottlieb Wikipedia]

'''Head Shop''' 
A store specializing in recreational drug paraphernalia. When Doc indulges Denis, who craves munchies of which Doc's fridge is lacking, Doc meets up with Enseneda Slim who is the owner of the head shop ''Screaming Ultraviolet Brain.''
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==Page 11==
'''Sad but true, as Dion always sez.''' 
"Runaround Sue" ("Here's my story, it's sad but true...") was a 1961 hit for Dion DiMucci (b. 1939). Dion only sez it once, but then again he "said" it everytime the song was played. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c49klxPex-k Have a listen on YouTube...] 

'''Playa Vista High''' 
Mira Costa High is the high school in Manhattan Beach ("Gordita Beach" in ''Inherent Vice'').

'''Denis came back with his Pizza.''' 
Pynchon had a passion for pizza and had proposed making a film with the FPS group of San Francisco entitled "Mondo Pizza".

'''This happened at the Pipeline every Tuesday''' 
Night, Tuesday, March 24, 1970, first day of the narrative. This establishes this day as Tuesday.

'''"sez"''' 
Alludes to the Mr. Natural comic book character created and drawn by the 1960s counterculture and underground comix artist [http://www.rcrumb.com/ Robert Crumb.] (Robert Crumb also makes an appearance on [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_14#Page_306 page 306 of ''Vineland'']) Perhaps Mr. Natural's most famous aphorism was, "Mr. Natural sez, Use the right tool for the job." ("Sez" appears numerous times throughout ''Inherent Vice'')[[File:MrNatural.jpg|thumb|right|Mr. Natural [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Natural_(comics) Wikipedia]]] Then again, it appears a number of times in [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow''], as well as in the last sentence of Pynchon's introduction to ''Slow Learner''.

'''skip tracer''' 
Someone who "traces" the location of people who have "skipped" town. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skiptrace Wikipedia entry...]

'''Sortilège''' 
The act of divining the future by casting lots, also Sorcery; witchcraft. Middle English, derived from old French via Medieval Latin sortilegium, from sortilegus, diviner : Latin sors, sort-, lot + Latin legere, to read. see [http://www.answers.com/topic/sortilege Answers.com].

==Page 12==
'''wasn't that they were fucking, exactly, but it was something like that.''' 
This sentence structure is a Pynchon trademark found throughout his works: "not X, exactly, but Y..." For instance, [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_136-144 ''Gravity's Rainbow'', pg 137]: "...you begin to wait for something terrible not exactly an air raid but something close to that."; [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_580-591 ''Gravity's Rainbow'', pg 580]: "Not as an enterprise, exactly, but at least in the dance of things."

'''though, when Doc finally woke up''' 
Morning, Wednesday, March 25, 1970, second day of the narrative.

'''He stumbled up the hill to Wavos and had breakfast with the hard-core surfers who were always there.''' 
Huevos [pronounced, in Southern Californian American English, Wave-ohs] Rancheros: fried eggs served on corn tortillas with salsa, a popular dish with surfers, dopers, and other beach people in the sixties and seventies. A pretty good joke from Pynchon: huevos-wavos-surfer restaurant.

==Page 13==
'''dinged-up [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_El_Camino El Camino], the one with the 396''' 
A 396 is an engine with a displacement of 396 cubic inches (6.49 liters). This is a large V8 engine in a lightweight coupé utility vehicle.

'''Tomorrow is another day''' 
For those who don't mind spoilers, see [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_16#Page_281 later annotation]. Bigfoot's clichéd quotation is also the slogan of one of the most famous characters in U.S. literature, Scarlett O'Hara, the heroine of Margaret Mitchell's ''Gone With the Wind'' (1936). Needless to say, in the universe of pop culture allusions in ''Inherent Vice'', this one is definitely an outlier, one of the weirdest, though Mitchell's novel (and the even more popular movie based on it [1939]) were still popular in the '50s and '60s, especially among older generations. The quotation definitely establishes Bigfoot's cultural taste as being anomalous to the world of Doc and Gordita Beach.

'''stewardii''' 
If the Italianesque "stewardi" is being suggested by TRP as the plural of stewardess, what is "stewardii"--the plural of a plural? Definitely some comic linguistic play going on here, working out an alternative to to the clunky "stewardesses." Or could this refer to male airline attendants, "stewards" in the plural in non-Pynchonian parlance? Probably not, given that it's 1970 and airline attendants then were all female. Just a few fun things to think about while you're parsing the long list of all those waiting in line....
This is really just a pseudo-Latin joke, playing on the fact that "stewardess" phonetically sounds like a Latin noun ending in "-us." Such nouns (which, ironically, are masculine) become plural by changing the "-us" to "-i."

See [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_6#Page_71 Annotation to Page 71].

'''vegetarian pregnancy''' 
What's that? Pregnant women who are vegetarians and believe they need special "vitamin" supplements?

'''Frederick's of Hollywood''' 
Famous retailer of lingerie, started by Frederick Mellinger (inventor of the push-up bra) in 1946. The original flagship store was a landmark on Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick's_of_Hollywood Wikipedia]

==Page 14==
'''a rendering of a giant bloodshot eyeball''' 
The logo for LSD Investigations might be a parody of the logo for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinkerton_National_Detective_Agency Pinkerton National Detective Agency], a famous and long-running agency started in the nineteenth century. Their logo is an eyeball with the phrase "We Never Sleep." See it [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:We_never_sleep.jpg here]. This agency's activities play an important role in Pynchon's previous novel, ''Against the Day''.

Famed Poster artist and surfer dude Rick Griffin also made a finely detailed rendering of a bloodshot, flying eyeball in [http://www.olsenart.com/FILLMORE/BG%20105.gif this] famous poster for a Jimi Hendrix concert at the Fillmore in 1968.

There also may be an allusion here to the most famous "giant eyeball" in 20th-century American literature, in F. Scott Fitzgerald's ''The Great Gatsby''. The eye-doctor Dr. T. J. Eckleburg's giant billboard ad for his practice features a pair of eyes and glasses looking over a wasteland near a highway on the way to New York City. In FSF's words, "his eyes, dimmed a little by many paintless days under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground."

'''psychedelic favorites green & magenta''' 
A Pynchon leitmotif, the color combo of the faux-neon font of Inherent Vice's cover, also cited in ''Gravity's Rainbow'' & ''Vineland''.

'''karmic adjustment''' 
Karmic imbalance is an important theme in ''Vineland''. See [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_9#Page_173 pg. 173], for example.

'''Sledge Poteet''' 
Sledge Poteet was a member of the film collective 24fps from ''[http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page Vineland]''. He shared, along with ninjette DL Chastain, "a fondness for enlightenment through asskicking."

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'''Olivetti Lettera 22''' 
A portable typewriter. See it [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivetti_Lettera_22 here]. Various sources, including Jules Siegel, note that Pynchon used an Olivetti Portable Typewriter.

(So did Cormac McCarthy, who used a slightly different model, a light blue Olivetti Lettera 32, to type all of his novels from ''The Orchard Keeper'' to ''The Road''! McCarthy bought his Olivetti for $50 at a Knoxville Tennessee pawnshop in 1963. It was sold for over $250,000 at auction in 2009, with proceeds going to the Santa Fe Institute, a nonprofit scientific research organization. Wonder what the future of TRP's Olivetti will be.)

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'''Black Guerrilla Family . . . George Jackson's outfit''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Guerrilla_Family The Black Guerrilla Family] was a prison gang founded in the mid-1960's by George Jackson in San Quentin prison.

'''Artesia Crips''' 
This is a potential anachronism. The novel ostensibly takes place in 1970, since it is after Charles Manson's arrest in December 1969 but before the trial began in mid-1970. However, many reports indicate the L.A. street gang that would eventually be called the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crips Crips] was not founded by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Washington Raymond Washington] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Williams Tookie Williams] until 1971, and it was originally called the Baby Avenues, then the Cribs, and finally Crips.

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'''Watts . . . the riots''' 
In 1965, there was a widespread and brutal riot in the streets of Watts, CA. It lasted almost a week and resulted in several deaths and hundreds of injuries. Read more [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_riots here]. Pynchon wrote on the subject in his 1966 essay for the New York Times [http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/uncollected/watts.html A Journey Into The Mind of Watts]

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'''"As Sledge said, you are a crazy white motherfucker."How can you tell? "I counted."''' 
See also [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_42:_422-435#counted-joke ''Mason & Dixon'', page 432, lines 23-24]. Same joke.