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==X==

'''Xandra''' 
168; Asian receptionist at Golden Fang Enterprises, Inc. Corporate HQ

==Y==

'''yakuza''' 
Members of traditional organized crime syndicates in Japan, and also known as "violence groups"; torpedo (a professional killer who uses a gun), 82;

'''Yastrzemski, Carl (b. 1939)''' 
Nicknamed "Yaz," Yastrzemski is a former American Major League Baseball player who played his entire 23-year career with the Boston Red Sox, primarily as a left fielder, with part of his later career played at first base and as a designated hitter; his bat, 316

'''Yellow Haze''' 
140; smoking product made from banana peels, created by Kevin, the owner of Kozmik Banana in Gordita Beach

'''Yosemite Sam''' 
Animated cartoon character in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons produced by Warner Bros. Animation. He is commonly depicted as a short-tempered and extremely grouchy Western outlaw with an intense hatred of rabbits, especially Bugs Bunny; 326

'''Younger, Evelle (1918-1989)''' 
4; for whom Penny Kimball works; Younger was Attorney General of California from 1971-1979.

'''"Yummy Yummy Yummy" (1968)''' 
First hit for the Ohio Express, and a classic "bubblegum" song; Herb Alpert cover, 332

==Z==

'''Zappa, Frank (1940-1993)''' 
An American composer, electric guitarist, record producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, electronic, orchestral, and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers. Zappa produced almost all of the more than 60 albums he released with the band Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist. On a T-shirt, 146; guest artist at Pauley Pavilion, 223. He is also mentioned in ''Slow Learner'' (23) and ''Vineland'' (39, also on a t-shirt; 281).

'''Zeilder & Zeilder''' 
56; tailors where Doc got his "double-breasted velour suit" disguise

'''Zimmer, Norma (b. 1923)''' 
257; Lawrence Welk's "Champagne Lady" for more than two decades on ''The Lawrence Welk Show'' beginning in 1960.

'''Zirconia''' 
230; "young woman in a wine-colored minidress" in Nine of Diamonds, Las Vegas

'''Zody's''' 
9; Zody's was a chain of discount retail stores that operated in the United States from 1969 to 1986. The chain operated locations in California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, and Michigan. Zody's closed the last of its California stores in March 1986, with many locations being sold to Ralphs, a supermarket chain. Possible annagram: ZOYDS.

'''zomes''' 
62; zonahedral domes; The name "Zome", a combination of the words and 'dome' and 'zonahedral geometry', was coined by Steve Baer following his discovery of this unique geometry in 1969. This patented construction system is an evolution of 5,000 years of geometrical discovery, from the Babylonians to R. Buckminster Fuller; at Arrepentimiento, 249; "doorways to other dimensions" 253; Shasta's necklace, 262

"Corners constrict the mind....Domes break into new dimensions." ''Steve Baer''

'''Zucky's ''' 
96; "legendary Santa Monica delicatessen; 366;

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'''Van Cleef, Lee (1925-1989)''' 
204; an American film actor who appeared mostly in Western and action pictures.

'''Van Helsing, Dr.''' 
58; Professor Abraham Van Helsing is a fictional character and a protagonist from Bram Stoker's 1897 novel, ''Dracula'', who drives a stake through Dracula's heart.

'''van Houten, Leslie (b. 1949)''' 
A former member of Charles Manson's "Family" who was convicted of the murders of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca. She remains imprisoned at the California Institution for Women in Chino, San Bernadino County, California; 138; 293

'''Veidt, Conrad (1893-1943)''' 
German actor, remembered for his roles in such films as ''The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari'' (1919), ''The Thief of Bagdad'' (1940) and ''Casablanca'' (1942); ''Caligari'', 115

'''Velveeta, Jason''' 
156; Jade's and Bambi's "pimp". Velveeta is a type of processed cheese, produced by Kraft Foods. Tehre's the obligitory wikipedia page, which is a tad dull. More fun is had with Velveeta, a "Pasteurized processed cheese food" here: [http://www.squidoo.com/velveetainfo What IS this stuff anyway?]

'''Vernix''' 
352; See Sportello, Vernix

'''''Vertigo'' (1958)''' 
American psychological thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring James Stewart and Kim Novak. In the film, a retired police detective who suffers from acrophobia is hired as a private investigator to follow the wife of an acquaintance and uncover the mystery of her peculiar behavior; "supernatural Desoto" 298;

'''Vibrasonic''' 
368, with many references earlier [help fill them in here]. A kind of Fender amplifier made only between 1959 and 1964 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fender_Vibrasonic] that's the heart of Doc's way-cool sound system for his Dodge Dart; he's installed it in his trunk, where it takes up a good deal of the space. The amp also features a JBL speaker. This little set-up makes Doc's ride more in line with how some "Lowrider" cars were being modified in the late '60s (and after), doesn't it, despite the general social divide that Doc notes between white surfers and Chicanos in LA?

'''Vietnam''' 
103; 117; 152; 161; 197; "Long Trip Out" (Spotted Dick song about a Vietnam vet), 198-199; 254; 310; handshake, 361; "infrared and night vision" 365

'''Vigilant California''' 
121; GOP activists at Nixon rally; Coy worked for them, 139; 161; Arthur Tweedle, 199; recruiting Coy Harlingen, 299-300; 346

'''Vincent, Larry (aka "Seymour") (1924-1975)''' 
261; a television horror host, famed for his character "Seymour," who presented—and heckled—low-budget horror and science fiction movies on Fright Night on KHJ-TV and Seymour's Monster Rally on KTLA, both local stations in Los Angeles between 1969 and 1974. He was noted for his style of criticizing the movies he presented in an offbeat and funny manner, usually appearing in a small window which would pop up in the corner, tossing a quip, then vanishing again.

'''Vineland''' 
43

'''"Volare"''' 
365; Italian pop song written by Franco Migliacci and Domenico Modugno in 1958 and subsequently translated into other languages and recorded by many different artists. It is “arguably among the greatest pop tunes ever written” (''Bleeding Edge'' 154) and also appears twice in ''Vineland''.

'''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]

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'''Raincheck Room''' 
269-270; "esteemed West Hollywood saloon" where Bigfoot and Doc go

'''Ramo isn't telling Woolridge''' 
54; TRW (Thompson Ramo Wooldridge), a defense-related business, was formed by Dean Wooldridge (1913-2006) (misspelled in the novel) and Simon Ramo (b. 1913), sometimes known as the father of the Intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).

'''Rat Pack''' 
233; Frank Sinatra, Joey Bishop, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr.; 239

'''Reagan, Ronald Wilson''' 
73; 95; Reagan (1911-2004) was the 33rd Governor of California (1967–1975) and the 40th President of the United States (1981–1989). Born in Tampico, Illinois, Reagan moved to Los Angeles in the 1930s and began a career as an actor, first in films and later television. He served as president of the [[S#SAG| Screen Actors Guild]], producing, and turning over to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Committee_on_Un-American_Activities| House Un-American Activities Committee] (HUAC) a list of actors he suspected of Communist leanings. Reagan's governorship was punctuated by high-profile conflicts with the protest movement of the era. In 1969, Reagan sent the California Highway Patrol to quell the protests at UC Berkeley, and later used the National Guard to occupy the University for two weeks to quell additional unrest. Along with [[N#| Richard Nixon]], Reagan was the face of 'the Establishment' in the '60s and '70s, particularly in California. shutdown of state mental facilities, 172; 321

'''Red Squad''' 
Red Squads are police intelligence units that specialize in infiltrating, conducting counter-measures and gathering intelligence on political and social groups. Dating as far back as the Haymarket Riot in 1886, Red Squads became common in larger cities such as Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles during the First Red Scare of the 1920s. They were set up as specialized units of city police departments, as a weapon against labor unions, communists, anarchists, and other dissidents; 292

'''Reeves, Jim''' 
225; country-western singer

'''''rembetissas''''' 
249; female singers of rebetika music (See Eskenazi, Roza)

'''Resurrection of the Body''' 
180; "collision emporium" south of Olympic where Doc takes his Dart

'''Robbins, Marty''' 
239; "''foul, evil deeds''"; from "El Paso" on his 1959 album "Gunfighter": "Just for a moment I stood there in silence / Shocked by the foul evil deed I had done."

'''Robinson, Edward G. ("Eddie") (1893-1973)''' 
Honorary Academy Award-winning American actor born in Romania, he has played a wide range of characters, and is best remembered for his roles as a gangster, most notably in his breakthrough film ''Little Caesar'' (1930). His voice was also, apparently, the inspiration for Hank Azaria's voice for Chief Wiggum on ''The Simpsons''.

<div id="lourdes">'''Rodriguez, Lourdes'''</div>
71; stewardess on Kahuna Airlines

'''Rodgers & Hart''' 
160; "It Never Entered My Mind" sung by "the-girl-who-wasn't-a-hippie-chick" at O Cangaceiro.

'''Rogers, Roy (1911-1998)''' 
153; "Happy Trails to You"; a singer and cowboy actor, as well as the namesake of the famous Roy Rogers Restaurants chain. He and his second wife Dale Evans, his golden palomino Trigger, and his German Shepherd Dog, Bullet, were featured in over one hundred movies and The Roy Rogers Show. The show ran on radio for nine years before moving to television from 1951 through 1957.

'''Rolling Stones''' 
193; English rock band formed in 1962 and still recording and touring. Although the lineup has changed over the years, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts have remained constants. "Something Happened to Me Yesterday" from their 1967 album ''Between the Buttons'' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_stones Wikipedia]

'''''Roman Holiday'' (1953)''' 
Romantic comedy which introduced American audiences to Belgian-born actress Audrey Hepburn, who won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Gregory Peck and Eddie Albert co-starred. Although Dalton Trumbo co-wrote the screenplay, he was not credited because he was on the Hollywood blacklist; 281

'''Romex''' 
250; often used in a generic sense to refer to any type of non-metallic sheathed electrical cable. More to the point, it's electrical wiring sheathed in a plastic coating. The name comes from the Rome Wire Company, which originally produced the wire. The "rome" part comes from the company's name. No one is quite sure where the "x" came from.

'''Ruby's Lounge''' 
276; dilapidated bar downstairs from The Price of Wisdom "good for at least one felony arrest per week"

'''Ruiz, Antonio "Bugs"''' 
338; Adolfo's cousin

'''"Runaway"''' 
148; 1961 #1 hit by Del Shannon

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'''IA''' 
214; Internal Affairs

'''Ince, Tom (1882-1924)''' 
Thomas Harper Ince was an American silent film actor, director, producer and screenwriter; he is sometimes called "father of the western." 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; one of those "good old-time L.A. murder mysteries" 209;

'''Indelicato, Vincent''' 
283; LAPD "Detective X" who was murdered by Adrian Prussia; 324

'''inherent vice''' 
351; marine insurance term, "built into the act of return ... was this glittering mosaic of doubt"; "inherent vice," as an insurance term, is a loss caused by the inherent nature of the thing insured and not the result of a casualty or external cause.

'''Inner School''' 
186; Builders of the Adytum, Ltd. is a non-profit corporation based on the mystical-occult teachings of the holy qabalah (kabala) and sacred tarot. The B.O.T.A. acts as a teaching and training order and an outer vehicle of the "inner spiritual hierarchy, sometimes called the Inner School, which guides the evolution of humanity." Located at 5101-05 N. Figueroa Street, Los Angeles.

'''"Interstellar Overdrive"''' 
299; Long trippy instrumental jam on Pink Floyd's first album, ''The Piper at the Gates of Dawn'', composed by Syd Barrett (1946-2006)

'''''Invaders, The''''' 
ABC science fiction television program created by Larry Cohen that ran in the United States for two seasons, from January 10, 1967 to March 26, 1968. Roy Thinnes starred as architect David Vincent, who accidentally learns of an alien invasion already underway and thereafter travels from place to place, trying to foil the aliens' plots and warn a skeptical populace of the danger. The aliens have escaped their dying planet and are plotting to colonize Earth. As the series progresses, Vincent is able to convince a small number of people to help him fight the aliens, most significantly millionaire industrialist Edgar Scoville; 76

'''IPR''' 
210; Independent Police Review, a report

'''Iron Butterfly''' 
American psychedelic rock and proto-heavy-metal band, well known for their 1968 hit "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" with the ''very'' long drum solo; 92

'''"It Never Entered My Mind"''' 
160; Show tune from the 1940 Rodgers and Hart musical ''Higher and Higher'' (1940), where it was introduced by Shirley Ross.

'''Iwao''' 
83; yakuza accompanying Blondie-san at Club Asiatique. Pronunciation: "Wow".

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'''Haggard, Merle (1937-2016)''' 
American country music singer, guitarist, instrumentalist, and songwriter. Along with Buck Owens, Haggard and his band "The Strangers" helped create the Bakersfield Sound, which is characterized by the unique twang of Fender Telecaster guitars, vocal harmonies, and a rough edge not heard on the more polished Nashville Sound recordings of the same era; in Las Vegas, 227

'''Hair Ball''' 
363; song Coy plays at the Surfadelic Freak-In up at Will Rogers Park

'''Hairy Rope Home Security of Tarzana''' 
199; Doc posing as a rep of

'''Halibuts, The''' 
37; surf band (there was a South Bay LA surf band called The Halibuts in the early 1980s - anachronism?)

'''Hancock Park''' 
3; Mickey renting a place for Shasta in, 151;

<div id="hptie">'''Hand-painted tie'''</div>
63; Mickey Wolfmann has a closet full of silk ties with hand-painted pictures of his lovers nude in submissive positions; tie with Shasta's picture turns up, 190. In Gravity's Rainbow, Slothrop wears [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=H#hptie hand-painted tie] with a nude woman on it.

'''Happy and Dopey''' 
33; two of the seven dwarfs in the 1937 American animated feature ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'', based on the fairy tale of the same name by the Brothers Grimm. It was the first full length animated feature to be produced by Walt Disney and the first American animated feature film in movie history.

'''Hardy, Gridley, & Chatfield''' 
26; firm where Doc's attorney is employed

'''Harlingen, Amethyst''' 
38; 362; daughter of Coy and Hope

'''Harlingen, Coy''' 
36; Hope's possibly deceased husband; alive, 85; police snitch, 122; at Nixon rally, 122 (aka Chucky, aka Rick Doppel); 129; at O Cangaceiro Brazilian bar, playing sax, 160; "kneeling figure in robes" at Chryskylodon, 190; "not only used multiple aka's, he also had a number of offices running him" 210; spotted at the Lighthouse by Scott Oof, 297; at the Lighthouse, 298; passing notes to a state legislator in an LAX toilet stall (Think: Larry Craig, former senator from Idaho, arrested for homosexual lewd conduct in the men's restroom at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport in 2007), 301; snitch for LAPD, 308; 311; 346

'''Harlingen, Hope''' 
35; 312; 362; junky blond and wife of Coy

'''Harrison, George (1943-2001)''' 
English rock guitarist, singer-songwriter and film producer. He achieved international fame as lead guitarist in The Beatles, and is listed number 21 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of "The 100 Best Guitarists of All Time"; imposter hijacking Goodyear Blimp, 166; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_harrison Wikipedia entry]

<div id="motella">'''Haywood, Motella'''</div>
71; stewardess on Kahuna Airlines and one of Doc's "partners in mischief"; 74

'''Heinrich''' 
179; "private heat" at the guard gate at mansion where Doc drops off Dr. Blatnoyd

'''"Help Me, Rhonda"''' 
March 1965 single from the Beach Boys' album ''The Beach Boys Today!'', and the first on which Al Jardine sang lead vocal; playing at Gotcha!, 364

'''''He Ran All the Way'' (1951)''' 
254; a 1951 crime drama, considered a film noir, starring John Garfield and Shelley Winters. The film was Garfield's last. During the film's initial run, director John Berry and writers Dalton Trumbo and Hugo Butler were uncredited due to blacklisting during the Red Scare. The film's plot of a family held in their home by a killer on the lam.

'''Hendrix, Jimi (1942-1970)''' 
American guitarist, singer and songwriter. He is widely considered to be the greatest guitarist in the history of rock music by other musicians and commentators in the industry, and one of the most important and influential musicians of his era across a range of genres; reference to "Third Stone from the Sun" lyric ("You'll never hear surf music again..."), 37; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimi_hendrix Wikipedia entry]

<div id="shasta">'''Hepworth, Shasta Fay'''</div>
1; 26; missing, 34; postcard to Doc from "some island" in the Pacific, 163; orderly with her image on a Wolfmann tie, at Chryskylodon, 190; staying at Flip's place, 257; and Vigilant California, 302; her story, 306; meets Coy the first time, 312

[[image:hodads.jpg|right|thumb|caption|"Here Come the Ho-Dads"|right|175px]]'''"Here Come the Hodads"''' 
134; by the Marketts; actually, there is a 1963 single "Here Come the Ho-Dads" by the Denels that indicates the composer is "J. Saraceno" who is Joe Saraceno who produced the Marketts. But "Here Come the Ho-Dads" is on an early Marketts LP, possibly ''Surfer's Stomp''. Also, "Here Comes the Ho-dads" can certainly be found on the Marketts' 1963 album ''The Surfing Scene.''

'''"hillbilly act of the 1940s"''' 
125: Frank "Cicero" Weaver (Hillbilly) vocals/comedy, b. Ozark, MO, USA. Frank was one-third of "The Weaver Bros. & Elviry", a Hillbilly act that parlayed their 'Grand Ole Opry' show success into a lucrative contract with Republic Pictures. One third of the act was Frank Weaver as "Cicero" ( b, 2 February 1891, Ozark,Missouri, USA, d. 29 October 1967, Ventura County, California, USA.) his brother Leon Abner Weaver, as "Abner" who played the "Saw" (b. 12 August 1882, Ozark, Missouri, USA, d. 27 May 1950, Los Angeles, California, USA. heart attack), sister-in-law June Weaver as "Elviry", and niece Loretta Weaver as the ingénue, "Violey".

'''hippiphanies''' 
207; "wide-screen revelations" hippies have, according to Bigfoot

'''Hitler, Adolph (1889-1945)''' 
Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party, popularly known as the Nazi Party. He was the dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945, serving as chancellor from 1933 to 1945 and as head of state (Führer und Reichskanzler) from 1934 to 1945; "another Hitler documentary" 121; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolph_hitler Wikipedia entry]

'''Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969)''' 
Vietnamese Communist revolutionary and statesman who was prime minister (1946–1955) and president (1945–1969) of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam); 109; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_chi_minh Wikipedia entry]

'''hodads''' 
134, slang for people on the beach who don't surf, especially those of a "greaser" style more into cars and rock-and-roll than waves, and seen in opposition to the surfer crowd. Sometimes defined as a person who carries a board to the beach and poses as a surfer but never actually surfs.

'''Hoffman, Abbie (1936-1989)''' 
Social and political activist in the United States who co-founded the Youth International Party ("Yippies"). Hoffman was arrested and tried for conspiracy and inciting to riot as a result of his role in protests that led to violent confrontations with police during the 1968 Democratic National Convention, along with Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines, Lee Weiner and Bobby Seale. The group was known collectively as the "Chicago Eight"; when Seale's prosecution was separated from the others, they became known as the Chicago Seven. Later he became a fugitive from the law, living under an alias and working as an environmentalist following a conviction for dealing cocaine; "How about that Abbie Hoffman!" 103; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbie_Hoffman Wikipedia entry]

'''Hokusai (1760-1849)''' 
Katsushika Hokusai was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. In his time, he was Japan's leading expert on Chinese painting. Born in Edo (now Tokyo), Hokusai is best-known as author of the woodblock print series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (c. 1831) which includes the iconic and internationally recognized print, ''The Great Wave off Kanagawa'', created during the 1820s. ''Great Wave off Kanagawa'' 3-D reproduction in fiberglass, 125

'''Hollywood blacklist''' 
The Hollywood blacklist—more precisely the entertainment industry blacklist, into which it expanded—was the mid-twentieth-century list of screenwriters, actors, directors, musicians, and other U.S. entertainment professionals who were denied employment in the field because of their political beliefs or associations, real or suspected. Artists were barred from work on the basis of their alleged membership in or sympathy toward the American Communist Party, involvement in liberal or humanitarian political causes that enforcers of the blacklist associated with communism, and/or refusal to assist federal investigations into Communist Party activities. The first systematic Hollywood blacklist was instituted on November 25, 1947, the day after ten writers and directors were cited for contempt of Congress for refusing to give testimony to the House Committee on Un-American Activities; 208; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_blacklist Wikipedia entry]

'''Hollywood Saxons, The''' 
125; late 50s/early 60x Rhythm & Blues band in Los Angeles. ''' 
In late 1958, they hooked up with producer George Motola, owner of the Contender label They recorded on Danny Coggins' Elf label. [http://home.att.net/~marvart/HollywoodSaxons/hollywoodsaxons.html More about the Hollywood Saxons]

'''Holmes, Sherlock''' 
Fictional character of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of British author and physician Arthur Conan Doyle. A brilliant London-based "consulting detective", Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess, and is renowned for his skillful use of astute observation, deductive reasoning and inference to solve difficult cases; 96; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_holmes Wikipedia entry]

'''Hoover, J. Edgar (1895-1972)''' 
The first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States. Appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation — predecessor to the FBI — in 1924, he was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director until his death in 1972. Hoover is credited with building the FBI into a large and efficient crime-fighting agency, and with instituting a number of modern innovations to police technology, such as a centralized fingerprint file and forensic laboratories; 72; 318

'''Howe, James "Jimmy" Wong (1899-1976)''' 
58; born Wong Tung Jim in Taishan, Canton Province, China, Howe is considered one of the greatest American cinematographers. He has over 130 films to his credit. A master at the use of shadow, he was one of the first to use deep-focus cinematography, photography in which both foreground and distant planes remain in focus. 254

'''Huey''' 
43; drummer in Beer

'''Huevoncito, El''' 
290; snitch in prison with Tariq Khalil and Glen Charlock; "mysteriously deceased" 292. Brief [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_16#Page_290 discussion] of name's meaning.

'''Hughes, Howard (1905-1976)''' 
An American aviator, industrialist, film producer and director, philanthropist, and one of the wealthiest people in the world. Hughes arrived in Las Vegas in 1966 and moved into the Desert Inn. Because he refused to leave the hotel and in order to avoid further conflicts with the owners of the hotel, Hughes bought the Desert Inn in early 1967; Hughes Company, 50; bought the Desert Inn, 240; "Aryan to the bone" 248; 253

'''HULK''' 
264; Heroin Users Liberation Kollective, lobbying for junkies in the state capital of Sacramento

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'''''A Summer Place'' (1959)''' 
Film based on the novel of the same name by Sloan Wilson. It's about two one-time teen lovers, Ken and Sylvia, who end up marrying the wrong people. They meet up 20 years later and begin an adulterous affair. Actress Constance Ford plays Helen, Ken's wife; 353

'''Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem (b. 1947)''' 
American retired basketball player, widely considered one of the greatest players of all time. During his 20-year professional career in the NBA, from 1969 to 1989, he scored the highest points total of any player in league history (38,387), in addition to winning a record six Most Valuable Player Awards and six NBA championships; division semifinals between the 76ers and Milwaukee, aka Lew Alcindor, 113; 223

'''''Adam-12''''' 
32; Adam-12 is an American television drama which originally aired from September 21, 1968 to August 30, 1975 on NBC for 175 episodes. The program followed the daily activities of a pair of LAPD patrol officers – seven-year veteran officer Peter 'Pete' Malloy (Martin Milner) and rookie officer James 'Jim' Reed (Kent McCord) – and to a lesser extent Sergeant William "Mac" MacDonald (William Boyett); 261

'''Addison''' 
311; Burke Stodger's dog, likely named for Addison DeWitt, the cold-blooded theatre critic George Sanders played in ''All About Eve'' (1950).

'''Adolfo''' 
228; Tito Stavrou's brother in law, in Las Vegas; car swap with Doc, 338

'''Allen, Lee''' 
37; "New Orleans studio tenor"

'''''All-Night Freaky Features''''' 
245; fictional TV shoe Doc watches in Las Vegas

'''Allen, Lucius (b. 1947)''' 
223; a former professional basketball player. Prior to his NBA career, he was part of one of John Wooden's legendary UCLA teams. He was drafted by the Seattle SuperSonics in the 1st round (3rd pick) of the 1969 NBA Draft and retired in 1979.

'''Alpert, Herb''' 
American musician most associated with the group variously known as Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass or as Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass or just TJB for short. He is also famous for being a recording industry executive — he is the "A" of A&M Records (a recording label he and business partner Jerry Moss founded and eventually sold).156; and the Tijuana Brass ; "This Guy's in Love with You" 156; covering "Yummy Yummy Yummy" 332

'''American Security Council''' 
95; "private intelligence operation" out of Chicago, since 1955

'''AMORC''' 
186; The Rosicrucian Order, Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC) is a worldwide mystical, Rosicrucian, educational, humanitarian and fraternal organiZation founded by Harvey Spencer Lewis.

'''Anais''' 
136; Jade and Bambi's cat, likely named for the Cuban-Spanish-French author Anais Nin (1903-1977) who became famous for her published journals, which span more than 60 years, beginning when she was 11 years old and ending shortly before her death. Nin is also famous for her erotica.

'''''Another World''''' 
Television soap opera that ran on the NBC network from 1964 to 1999. In its early years opened with announcer Bill Wolff (1964-1987) intoning its epigram, "We do not live in this world alone, but in a thousand other worlds," which Irna Phillips, the show's creator, said represented the difference between "the world of events we live in, and the world of feelings and dreams that we strive for. Actress Constance Ford played Ada, the hairdresser; Elmira watching while high, with Oriole, 353

'''AP Finance''' 
271; Puck Beaverton's former employer that did "regular business with many officers in the Department"; Doc visits Adrian Prussia, 315

'''aqua jelly beans''' 
161; reference to Van Halen's stipulation for no brown M&Ms in their dressing room.

'''Arbolata Savings & Loan''' 
111; in Ojai, used by Mickey Wolfmann and the Chryskylodon Institute; check sent to El Drano drawn from, 265

'''Archies, The''' 
The Archies is a fictional garage band founded by Archie Andrews, Reggie Mantle, and Jughead Jones, a group of adolescent fictional characters of the Archie universe, in the context of the animated TV series, ''The Archie Show''; "Sugar, Sugar" 10

'''Area 51''' 
361; Nickname for a military base that is located in the southern portion of Nevada in the western United States (83 miles north-northwest of downtown Las Vegas). Situated at its center, on the southern shore of Groom Lake, is a large secretive military airfield. Although the base's primary purpose is to support development and testing of experimental aircraft and weapons systems, its secretive nature and undoubted connection to classified aircraft research, together with reports of unusual phenomena, have led it to become a focus of modern UFO and conspiracy theories, including the storage, examination, and reverse engineering of crashed alien spacecraft (including material supposedly recovered at Roswell), the study of their occupants (living and dead), and the manufacture of aircraft based on alien technology, and meetings or joint undertakings with extraterrestrials; space aliens, 361

'''Arizona Palms''' 
162; diner where Doc eats "All-Nighter Special"

'''Arnold the pig''' 
254; a pig in the TV series ''Green Acres'' (1965-1971), he was treated as the son of Fred and Doris Ziffel.

'''Arnould, Thomas''' 
91; the intended reference is presumably Joseph Arnould, an expert on marine insurance, who published a treatise on the subject in 1848. There was also a Thomas Arnold (no "u"), but he appears to have had no connection with insurance, marine or otherwise.

'''ARPAnet''' 
The ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) created by ARPA of the United States Department of Defense during the Cold War, was the world's first operational packet switching network, and the predecessor of the global Internet. It came online in 1969 with four routers (then called Interface Message Processors - IMPs), located at UCLA, Stanford Research Institute (SRI), UC Santa Barbara, and the University of Utah, and initially running at 50 kbit/second; at Gotcha!, 53; 195; 258; Fritz feels it has "taken his soul" 365

'''Arrepentimiento''' 
62; Wolfmann's "longtime dream project ... near Las Vegas; Wolfmann's imagined city in Las Vegas, Spanish for "sorry about that" 248; Doc and Tito arrive, 249

'''Artesia Crips''' 
16; the Artesia Freeway is a major east-west freeway located entirely within Southern California and serving several regions of the Greater Los Angeles metropolitan area.; the Crips is primarily, but not exclusively, African American gang. The "Artesia Crips" is fictional.

'''Aryan Brotherhood''' 
White prison gang, formed by a a group of bikers in 1964 at San Quentin State Prison; and Mickey Wolfmann, 7; and Tariq Khalil, 16; trying to recruit Glen Charlock, 291

'''Astrology''' 
40; “Neptune, the dopers’ planet, and Uranus, the planet of rude surprises”

'''Asymmetric Bob''' 
127; Spotted Dick's lead vocalist

'''Aubrey''' 
153; Clancy Charlock's biker friend/lover

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==Page 351==
'''inherent vice''' 
[http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Inherent_Vice_Title Here's] a good discussion of this phrase.

'''original sin''' 
a Christian doctrine that says everyone is born sinful [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_sin].

==Page 352==
'''''Hawaii Five-o'' was still on.'''
 Late evening Thursday, May 7, 1970. Ordinarily, the show was on Wednesdays from 10 to 11 P.M.
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'''that Ada whom I have never trusted since A Summer Place [1959]''' 

Not exactly the most meaningful reference, but the same actress - Constance Ford - played both Ada in the soap opera Another World and the unsympathetic character Helen in the movie [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Summer_Place_(film) A Summer Place].

This appears to be the only instance in the novel where the year of a movie is indicated in square brackets. Typo?

For those inclined to possibilities that require a bit of a stretch, it could also conceivably be construed to be an oblique reference to the Nabokov novel, which was published in 1969. As is fairly well known, Pynchon once took a course from Nabokov, and there are some similarities in their work, though that's a whole 'nother subject.

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'''Next morning the fire bell went off,''' 
Morning, Friday, May 8, 1970.

'''you might want to wear some Sperry Topsiders instead of that one huarache?''' 
A rather odd comment, since it would appear that Sauncho hasn't seen Doc since he lost the huarache (page 327). They talked on the beach on page 340-341, where Sauncho gave his "courtroom summary" on the subject of time, but that's presented as a dream (before Doc is "fire-gonged" awake by Crocker Fenway). Doc and Sauncho also talked on page 351, where Sauncho defined [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_20#Page_351 inherent vice], but that was apparently a flashback, since it doesn't seem that Sauncho was in Doc's apartment while Doc was looking at photos, watching Hawaii Five-0 and talking to his parents. Perhaps the dream was not actually a dream?

'''Like Gilligan?''' 
Another explicit linking of Doc and Gilligan. See [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_7#Page_89 page 89] and [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_7#Page_92 page 92].

'''Sperry Topsiders''' 
Literally boat shoes, i.e. shoes specified for wearing on boats. The Richard Dreyfuss character in ''Jaws'' wears [http://www.sperrytopsider.com/store/SiteController/sperry/productdetails?productId=7-100210&stockNumber=0195115 ''Sperry Topsiders''].

==Page 355==
'''like Easter Island in reverse''' 
A beautiful way to describe the surfers. Easter Island is a Pacific island famous for its human stone figures who were placed in a line on land, looking out over the ocean, as seen [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Moai_Rano_raraku.jpg here].

==Page 358==
'''Cortes Bank''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortes_Bank Site] of a mountain range only a few feet below the surface of the ocean over a hundred miles out from the California coast. Famous for huge waves that just began to be surfed in the mid-90s. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4uTKuouka4 Watch] Mike Parsons talk about surfing there and catching the biggest wave ever, over 70 feet, documented as having been ridden.

==Page 359==
'''kiss her transom goodbye''' 
According to Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, transom means: "1.d. any of several transverse timbers or beams secured to the sternpost of a boat; also, the planking forming the stern of a square-ended boat." So, basically, kiss her ass (or fantail, as Sauncho calls it on page 356) goodbye.

==Page 360==
'''Or what if they want Mildred to strangle Veda at the end, like she does in the book?''' 
Refers to the film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037913 Mildred Pierce], set in Southern California and much changed from the novel by James M. Cain.

'''what, helpfully, wasn't yet a quitting time crowd.''' 
Late afternoon, Friday, May 8, 1970.

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'''You know what the Indians say. You saved my life, now you've got to-''' 
Recalls the bit in [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Against the Day''] between Scarsdale Vibe and Foley Walker: "You know what the Indians out west believe? That if you save the life of another, he becomes your responsibility forever" ([http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_97-118#Page_101 p. 101]). Also referred to on [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_11#Page_171 p. 171] of this book.

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'''''A Summer Place'' [1959]''' 
Film based on the novel of the same name by Sloan Wilson. It's about two one-time teen lovers, Ken and Sylvia, who end up marrying the wrong people. They meet up 20 years later and begin an adulterous affair. Actress Constance Ford plays Helen, Ken's wife; This seems to be the only instance in the book where the year is indicated in square brackets (typo?), 353

'''Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem (b. 1947)''' 
American retired basketball player, widely considered one of the greatest players of all time. During his 20-year professional career in the NBA, from 1969 to 1989, he scored the highest points total of any player in league history (38,387), in addition to winning a record six Most Valuable Player Awards and six NBA championships; division semifinals between the 76ers and Milwaukee, aka Lew Alcindor, 113; 223

'''''Adam-12''''' 
32; Adam-12 is an American television drama which originally aired from September 21, 1968 to August 30, 1975 on NBC for 175 episodes. The program followed the daily activities of a pair of LAPD patrol officers – seven-year veteran officer Peter 'Pete' Malloy (Martin Milner) and rookie officer James 'Jim' Reed (Kent McCord) – and to a lesser extent Sergeant William "Mac" MacDonald (William Boyett); 261

'''Addison''' 
311; Burke Stodger's dog, likely named for Addison DeWitt, the cold-blooded theatre critic George Sanders played in ''All About Eve'' (1950).

'''Adolfo''' 
228; Tito Stavrou's brother in law, in Las Vegas; car swap with Doc, 338

'''Allen, Lee''' 
37; "New Orleans studio tenor"

'''''All-Night Freaky Features''''' 
245; fictional TV shoe Doc watches in Las Vegas

'''Allen, Lucius (b. 1947)''' 
223; a former professional basketball player. Prior to his NBA career, he was part of one of John Wooden's legendary UCLA teams. He was drafted by the Seattle SuperSonics in the 1st round (3rd pick) of the 1969 NBA Draft and retired in 1979.

'''Alpert, Herb''' 
American musician most associated with the group variously known as Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass or as Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass or just TJB for short. He is also famous for being a recording industry executive — he is the "A" of A&M Records (a recording label he and business partner Jerry Moss founded and eventually sold).156; and the Tijuana Brass ; "This Guy's in Love with You" 156; covering "Yummy Yummy Yummy" 332

'''American Security Council''' 
95; "private intelligence operation" out of Chicago, since 1955

'''AMORC''' 
186; The Rosicrucian Order, Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC) is a worldwide mystical, Rosicrucian, educational, humanitarian and fraternal organiZation founded by Harvey Spencer Lewis.

'''Anais''' 
136; Jade and Bambi's cat, likely named for the Cuban-Spanish-French author Anais Nin (1903-1977) who became famous for her published journals, which span more than 60 years, beginning when she was 11 years old and ending shortly before her death. Nin is also famous for her erotica.

'''''Another World''''' 
Television soap opera that ran on the NBC network from 1964 to 1999. In its early years opened with announcer Bill Wolff (1964-1987) intoning its epigram, "We do not live in this world alone, but in a thousand other worlds," which Irna Phillips, the show's creator, said represented the difference between "the world of events we live in, and the world of feelings and dreams that we strive for. Actress Constance Ford played Ada, the hairdresser; Elmira watching while high, with Oriole, 353

'''AP Finance''' 
271; Puck Beaverton's former employer that did "regular business with many officers in the Department"; Doc visits Adrian Prussia, 315

'''aqua jelly beans''' 
161; reference to Van Halen's stipulation for no brown M&Ms in their dressing room.

'''Arbolata Savings & Loan''' 
111; in Ojai, used by Mickey Wolfmann and the Chryskylodon Institute; check sent to El Drano drawn from, 265

'''Archies, The''' 
The Archies is a fictional garage band founded by Archie Andrews, Reggie Mantle, and Jughead Jones, a group of adolescent fictional characters of the Archie universe, in the context of the animated TV series, ''The Archie Show''; "Sugar, Sugar" 10

'''Area 51''' 
361; Nickname for a military base that is located in the southern portion of Nevada in the western United States (83 miles north-northwest of downtown Las Vegas). Situated at its center, on the southern shore of Groom Lake, is a large secretive military airfield. Although the base's primary purpose is to support development and testing of experimental aircraft and weapons systems, its secretive nature and undoubted connection to classified aircraft research, together with reports of unusual phenomena, have led it to become a focus of modern UFO and conspiracy theories, including the storage, examination, and reverse engineering of crashed alien spacecraft (including material supposedly recovered at Roswell), the study of their occupants (living and dead), and the manufacture of aircraft based on alien technology, and meetings or joint undertakings with extraterrestrials; space aliens, 361

'''Arizona Palms''' 
162; diner where Doc eats "All-Nighter Special"

'''Arnold the pig''' 
254; a pig in the TV series ''Green Acres'' (1965-1971), he was treated as the son of Fred and Doris Ziffel.

'''Arnould, Thomas''' 
91; the intended reference is presumably Joseph Arnould, an expert on marine insurance, who published a treatise on the subject in 1848. There was also a Thomas Arnold (no "u"), but he appears to have had no connection with insurance, marine or otherwise.

'''ARPAnet''' 
The ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) created by ARPA of the United States Department of Defense during the Cold War, was the world's first operational packet switching network, and the predecessor of the global Internet. It came online in 1969 with four routers (then called Interface Message Processors - IMPs), located at UCLA, Stanford Research Institute (SRI), UC Santa Barbara, and the University of Utah, and initially running at 50 kbit/second; at Gotcha!, 53; 195; 258; Fritz feels it has "taken his soul" 365

'''Arrepentimiento''' 
62; Wolfmann's "longtime dream project ... near Las Vegas; Wolfmann's imagined city in Las Vegas, Spanish for "sorry about that" 248; Doc and Tito arrive, 249

'''Artesia Crips''' 
16; the Artesia Freeway is a major east-west freeway located entirely within Southern California and serving several regions of the Greater Los Angeles metropolitan area.; the Crips is primarily, but not exclusively, African American gang. The "Artesia Crips" is fictional.

'''Aryan Brotherhood''' 
White prison gang, formed by a a group of bikers in 1964 at San Quentin State Prison; and Mickey Wolfmann, 7; and Tariq Khalil, 16; trying to recruit Glen Charlock, 291

'''Astrology''' 
40; “Neptune, the dopers’ planet, and Uranus, the planet of rude surprises”

'''Asymmetric Bob''' 
127; Spotted Dick's lead vocalist

'''Aubrey''' 
153; Clancy Charlock's biker friend/lover

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'''OPPOS''' 
Real estate acronym meaning "Over-Priced Piece Of Shit"

==Page 20==
'''desert beneath the pavement''' 
An echo of the epigraph, though in this case the sand beneath the pavement is a desert, rather than a beach.

'''Kaufman and Broad''' 
In 1957 Donald Kaufman and Eli Broad cofounded Kaufman and Broad Building Company in Detroit, Michigan. In 1963 Kaufman and Broad builds its first homes in California and announces it will establish corporate headquarters in Los Angeles. In 2000 the company changed its name to KB Home. KB Home is the largest home builder in the United States, in terms of units built. Between the 1950s and 1970s, Eli Broad was known as "King of Sprawl." Kaufman and Broad built more suburban homes in this country than anyone before or since.
[http://www.kbhome.com/Default.aspx KB Home]

'''Dominguez Flood Control Channel''' 
"The Dominguez Channel extends from the Los Angeles International Airport to the Los Angeles Harbor and drains large if not all portions of the cities of Inglewood, Hawthorne, El Segundo, Gardena, Lawndale, Redondo Beach, Torrance, Carson and Los Angeles." [http://www.theriverproject.org/dominguez.html The River Project]

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'''bigger inside than out''' 
This trope of spaces with interiors larger than they appear from the outside is also present in Pynchon's 1997 novel [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Mason & Dixon'']:

:Our Coach is a late invention of the Jesuits [...] wherein the inside is quite notably larger than the outside, though the fact cannot be appreciated until one is inside. ([http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_35:_349-361#Page_354 p. 354])

For numerous examples of this trope in various media, see this link. [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BiggerOnTheInside]

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'''caused Doc about then to swoon abruptly and lose an unknown amount of his day.''' 
It's still Wednesday, March 25, 1970, the second day of the narrative.

'''"Congratulations, hippie scum [...] and welcome to a world of inconvenience."''' 
Detective Lieutenant Bigfoot Bjornsen echos Walter Sobchak from the 1998 Coen brothers film [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lebowski ''The Big Lebowski'']: "Smokey, my friend, you are entering a world of pain."

'''30-weight voice''' 
30-weight is shorthand for automobile engine oil.

'''chocolate-covered frozen banana''' 
Very appropriate for Bigfoot, whose namesake is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigfoot an ape-like creature], to have as his "trademark snack" a banana. And it is quite a delicious snack, actually: [http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/gale-gand/chocolate-dipped-frozen-bananas-recipe/index.html recipe].

'''to gaze tubeward''' 
Which is exactly what the denizens of Channel View Estates would be doing, viewing channels.

==Page 23==
'''Doc made out in the afternoon light'''
 Afternoon, Wednesday, March 25, 1970, the second day of the narrative.

'''Sawhorse Barricade''' 
A barricade featuring a bar supported on A frames at the opposite ends of the bar, often used by law enforcement for crowd control. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawhorse]

'''Backhoe''' 
A contraption for digging often attached to the rear of a bulldozer which is considerably smaller albeit more maneuverable than the loader.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backhoe]

==Page 24==
'''Forgetful dope fiends should be more cautious about whom they wish to act out their wacko fantasies upon.''' 
Foreshadows Charles Manson who first appears on [[#Page 29|page 29]].

[[File:68Elcamino.jpg|thumb|150px|right|1968 Chevrolet El Camino]]
'''1968 El Camino''' 
The Chevrolet El Camino is a coupe utility vehicle produced by the Chevrolet division of General Motors from 1959 through 1960, with production resuming in 1964 and continuing through 1987. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_El_Camino Wikipedia]
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'''Fatso Judson''' 
Fatso Judson is the sadistic stockade sergeant played by Ernest Borgnine in "From Here To Eternity," a 1953 drama film based on the novel of the same name by James Jones.

'''It wasn't until the middle of rush hour''' 
Late afternoon, Wednesday, March 25, 1970, the second day of the narrative.

'''...a maritime lawfirm...called Hardy, Gridley, and Chatfield...''' 
The firm's partners share the surnames of three recipients of famous naval quotations.

Captain Thomas Hardy commanded Admiral Horatio Nelson's flagship ''HMS Victory'' in the Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805. As Nelson lay dying from a French musketball, he said, "Kiss me, Hardy"--almost (but not quite) his last words.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Nelson,_1st_Viscount_Nelson]

Captain Charles Vernon Gridley commanded Admiral George Dewey's flagship ''USS Olympia'' in the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War, 1 May 1898. As Dewey's Pacific squadron prepared to "cross the T" of the Spanish fleet, Dewey said, "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Vernon_Gridley]

Captain Ernle Chatfield commanded Admiral David Beatty's flagship ''HMS Lion'' in the Battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916. As Beatty's battlecruiser squadron took heavy damage from their German foes, he said, "Chatfield, there seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Jutland]

See also M&D, p. 41.

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[[File:Donaldstubble.jpg|thumb|150|right|]]
'''Donald and Goofy [...] in fact he's always had to go in ''every day'' and ''shave his beak.''''' 
The cartoon being discussed here is "No Sail" from 1945. Available on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hImIbmRnBU8 Youtube] and the Chronological Donald Volume II DVD [http://www.amazon.com/Walt-Disney-Treasures-Chronological-Donald/dp/B000ATQYU6/ Amazon].
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'''Mansonoid conspiracy''' 
On August 9, 1969, members of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Manson Charles Manson's] "family" murdered the eight-and-a-half-months-pregnant actress [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Tate Sharon Tate] (wife of director [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Polanski Roman Polanski]) and four others; the next night, they murdered [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leno_and_Rosemary_LaBianca Leno and Rosemary LaBianca]. Manson orchestrated these murders for the sake of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helter_Skelter_%28Manson_scenario%29 Helter Skelter], an apocalyptic war he believed would arise from tension over racial relations between blacks and whites.

'''After no more than an hour of this''' 
Early evening Wednesday, March 25, 1970, the second day of the narrative.

'''some longhair sympathizer of a DDA''' 
Presumably referring to Penny (first mentioned on page 4).

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'''the local news came on''' 
Early evening Wednesday, March 25, 1970, the second day of the narrative.

'''the Santa Anas''' 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Ana_winds Santa Ana winds] are strong, hot, dry winds commonly experienced in southern California.

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'''intended to give the victim mouth-to-mouth''' 
This car-to-human interaction is similar to [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_12#Page_230 a scene in ''Vineland''] in which Rex has sex with his Porsche, which also recalls Rachel Owlglass's intimate relationship with her MG in [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1 Chapter 1 of ''V.''].

'''Not the one with the ''r'' in it''' 
Benzidine is a chemical used to detect blood. Benzedrine is an amphetamine.

==Page 32==
'''Mod Squad''' 
TV show running from 1968-1973 which featured hipster kids in trouble with the law working undercover for the police.

==Page 33==
'''huaraches''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huarache_(shoe) Huaraches] are Mexican sandals often associated with California surf culture. See, for example, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfin%27_Safari_%28song%29 the Beach Boys' "Surfin' Safari"] (1963): "You'd see 'em wearing their baggies / Huarache sandals too ...."

'''the satanic Detective . . . everything in it that money could buy''' 
This is a biblical allusion to Matthew, chapter 4, in which Jesus is led to the desert and tempted by the devil: "Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. 'All this I will give you,' he said, 'if you will bow down and worship me.'"

Also, similar to how Hector must have worked on Zoyd in [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Vineland'']: "Hector had been trying over and over for years to develop him as a resource, and so far technically Zoyd had hung on to his virginity... But... He kept coming back, each time with a new and more demented plan..." ([http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#Page_12 p. 12 ''Vineland''])

[[image:freak-brothers.jpg|right|200px|thumb|caption|Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers]]'''Freak Brothers' dictum''' 
Gilbert Shelton's series of "Underground Comix"—"The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers"—was one of the most popular "Comix" of its time among fans of the form. Featuring the stoned adventures of Freewheelin' Franklin, Phineas T. Freakears, Fat Freddy Freekowtski and the ever popular Fat Freddy's Cat. Famous for [among other things] Freewheelin' Franklin's dictum: "Dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabulous_Furry_Freak_Brothers Wikipedia entry]
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'''[http://www.888bailbond.com/lacounty/parkercenter.html Glass House]''' 
Familiar name of downtown LA's Metropolitan Jail.

'''bricks and bricks of shit stacked to the roof''' 
In [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Vineland''], the police try to frame Zoyd by putting an enormous stash of pot in his house: "the biggest block of pressed marijuana Zoyd had ever seen in his life, too big to have fit through any door yet towering there, mysteriously, a shaggy monolithic slab reaching almost to the ceiling" ([http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_14#Page_294 pg. 294]).

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'''At the office next day''' 
Thursday, March 26, 1970, the third day of the narrative.

'''..."the diffident ring of the Princess phone..."''' 
See page 154.

'''Sidney Omarr''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Omarr Sydney Omarr] (an apparent spelling mistake on Pynchon's part) was a popular astrologer whose horoscopes were syndicated in many papers, including the ''LA Times''.

'''Ah, fuck no. Not this.''' 
This shows how wrought up Doc is, since Shasta already told him she wasn't living there anymore (page four: "I moved out of the old place, staying where I can anymore, don't ask.").

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'''"You're apologizing, Bigfoot?" "Ever known me to?"''' 
Bigfoot, movie enthusiast and collector of Wild West paraphernalia, would almost certainly be familiar with She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), where John Wayne's character says (repeatedly), "Never apologize, it's a sign of weakness."

==Page 36==

'''hizaz kar''' 
Variant spelling of ''hijaz kar''. Dick Dale's famous ''Misirlou'' is in fact a Greek tune based on the scale of Makam Hijaz Kar (E-F-G#-A-B-C-D#), and is playable on a single string of a guitar. ''Misirlou'' is one of the most famous of "Surf" tunes, thanks in large part to its presence on the Beach Boys album ''Surfin' USA'' and its inclusion in the soundtrack of the film ''Pulp Fiction''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misirlou Wikipedia]; [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIU0RMV_II8 Great 1963 clip of Dick Dale & the Deltones performing "Misirlou" from the 1963 movie ''A Swingin' Affair''] (Is that a young Al Franken on bass?)

'''In the kitchen hung a creeping fig''' 
This highly invasive plant is also mentioned on the first page of [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1 ''Vineland''], suggesting creeps and invasions and the like which occur in both novels.

==Page 37==

'''...will make Jimi Hendrix ''want'' to listen to surf music again.''' 
In Hendrix's song ''Third Stone From the Sun'', on the ''Are You Experienced'' album, near the end of the song Hendrix say''s To you I shall put an end, then you'll never hear surf music again.
''

'''the Makaha of Sound''' 
A kind of surfer metaphor. [http://www.surfline.com/surfaz/surfaz.cfm?id=856 Makaha, Hawaii] is legendary for its huge waves.

'''kazoo''' 
I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that every Pynchon novel - except ''Mason & Dixon'' - has a kazoo. Who can forget Boyd Beaver's All Kazoo Orchestra?

'''Chantays, the Trashmen, the Halibuts''' 
Three surf bands, two famous, one an anachronism time traveling backwards from the 80's. The Chantays famous for "Pipeline" is presented here on the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j09C8clJaXo Lawrence Welk] show, May 18, 1963. The immortal Trashmen gave us "Surfin' Bird" and the Halibuts were a 1980s surf-revival group.

'''Coy and I should've met cute''' 
A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet_cute "meet cute"]is a movie term that describes a contrived, humorous meeting between two possible romantic partners (e.g., a boy and girl bump into each other on the street then fall in love). In the 1934 film ''The Gay Divorce'', with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, in the song "Looking for a Needle in a Haystack", Astaire sings about finding the woman of his dreams whose name he never learned after they had had a "cute meet."

Roger Mexico and Jessica Swanlake are described as having had "what Hollywood likes to call a 'cute meet'" in Pynchon's 1973 novel [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow''], on [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_37-42#Page_38 page 38].

==Page 38==
'''Charles Manson''' 
The Manson family murders play an important thematic role in this novel. Is it possible that Pynchon timed the release of this novel to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the tragedy (August 1969)?

==Page 39==
'''El Drano''' 
Besides the associations mentioned here, Drano was rumored to be used to "step on" heroin (completely substitute for or augment the quantity of). Also, "Christmas tree meth" is slang for Green Methamphetamine produced using Drano crystals, although this might be anachronistic.

==Page 41==
'''Pat Dubonnet'''

Spoken phonetically, with the French pronunciation of Du Bonnet, this cop's name is "Pat da bunny" har har har...

Dubonnet is an aperitif containing quinine, first sold in 1846 as a means of inducing French soldiers in North Africa to take quinine to combat malaria. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubonnet]

==Page 42==
'''Here I am . . . to save the day!''' 
Amethyst is singing (albeit incorrectly) the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b21nxQ6nffE theme song of the Mighty Mouse cartoon]. 
This passage is as significant for what is ''not'' on the television as it is for what ''is'' on. If ''Mighty Mouse'' is on, it's between 4:00 and 4:30 P.M., meaning that ''Dark Shadows'', which shares the time slot on another channel, is not on. Which is not the case at a certain zombie-infested mansion.

==Page 43==
'''Later in the afternoon''' 
Afternoon, Thursday, March 26, 1970, the third day of the narrative.

'''Scott Oof''' 
Doc's cousin and lead guitar in the surf band the Corvairs, Oof also is a character in Pynchon's 1990 novel [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Vineland''], playing essentially the same character:

:After a bit, Corvairs lead guitar and vocalist Scott Oof wandered in from the kitchen to join them, leaning on the doorjamb playing with his hair. ([http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_3#Page p.23])

'''Scott had been playing with a local group known as the Corvairs, till half of them had decided to join the northward migration of those years to Humboldt, Vineland, and Del Norte.''' Pynchon migrated north along with many of the young people he knew from the South Bay to Humboldt county. /CW/
This passage reinforces the connection between ''Inherent Vice'' and ''Vineland''. So Oof had remained in Southern California, while half the band migrated north to Vineland.

Oof's name also opens a rabbithole to the comic genius of P.G. Wodehouse. [http://www.answers.com/topic/oofy-prosser "Oofy" Prosser] is a frequent co-conspirator in the Wooster-Jeeves comedies. [http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/85323.html "Oof"] is also 20th C. British slang for moolah, pelf, wealth, geedis.

Note that many different surf music groups in many different times and places adopted "The Corvairs" as a nom-de-band.

'''The Big Valley''' 
The Big Valley is an American television Western which ran on ABC from September 15, 1965 to May 19, 1969, starring Barbara Stanwyck, as a California widowed mother. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Valley Wikipedia] As a major-league movie star during the golden age of Noir, Barbara Stanwyck co-starred with Fred MacMurray and Edward G. Robinson in Billy Wilder's classic [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Indemnity_(film) Double Indemnity], scripted by Raymond Chandler.

This song from Scott Oof's band Beer points towards the San Joaquin Valley, which in 1970 was about the un-hippest place in the known universe.

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Inherent Vice Title

2012-05-21T11:23:08Z

C-Melody: Inherent Vice in M&D

Like all Pynchon titles, it's hard to know where to start, trying to gather up all the possible meanings and resonances. But, for openers:

*'''Inherent Vice - as a legal term:''' "A loss caused by the inherent nature of the thing insured and not the result of a casualty or external cause." [http://www.lectlaw.com/def/i043.htm 'Lectric Law Library]

*'''Inherent Vice - as it relates to classic Pynchon themes:''' compare with entropy. Everything declines. Everything falls apart. Everything goes wrong.

*'''Inherent Vice - as an analogy for the Christian doctrine of Original sin''', which says that everyone is born sinful [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_sin]. Indeed this is what Doc initially believes the phrase to mean when he wonders, "Is that like original sin?" (IV 351). This theological interpretation raises the question, 'If vice is inherent, where do we locate virtue?'[http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jul/26/pynchon-churchwell-inherent-vice]

*'''Inherent Vice - as a general term:''' "A defect or cause of loss arising out of the material itself, such as the acid content in paper which will eventually destroy the paper." [http://www.encyclo.co.uk/define/Inherent%20Vice Online Encyclopedia uk defitition]

:The bit about paper in the above definition is particularly apt, when we consider all the stuff in [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow''] about Slothrop's (Pynchon's?) ancestors, paper mills, etc. 'Money, shit, and The Word' indeed.

:The expression "Inherent Vice" appears in M&D, p. 272: "...the inherent Vice of Glass..."

*'''There's also the connections between this book and [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Vineland'']''' to factor in. That earlier book's theme (or one of them) was, reductively, 'what went wrong?', i.e. how did the 'revolutions' of the Sixties fail? Was it something inherent to the spirit of those times, and/or inherent to human nature? Why is it that some people are attracted to Fascism?

:A further political dimension which dovetails nicely with the 'flaws that let us fall for Fascism' question - the phrase was used by Winston Churchill: "The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."

*'''Winston Churchill:''' "The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries" (source?).

*'''From [http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2009/08/03/090803crbo_books_menand?currentPage=all his ''New Yorker'' review of the novel], Louis Menand's take on Pynchon's title:''' "The title is a term in maritime law (a specialty of one of the minor characters)[Sauncho Smilax]. It refers to the quality of things that makes them difficult to insure: if you have eggs in your cargo, a normal policy will not cover their breaking. Getting broken is in the nature of being an egg. The novel gives the concept some low-level metaphysical play--original sin is an obvious analogy--but, apart from this and a death-and-resurrection motic involving a saxophonist in a surf-rock band, 'Inherent Vice' does not appear to be a Pynchonian palimpsest of semi-obscure allusions. (I could be missing something, of course. I could be missing everything)."