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Chapter 6

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==Page 72==
'''Wouldn't it Be Nice''' 
Beach Boys, 1966, off the album ''Pet Sounds''.

==Page 73==
'''Tommy's''' 
[http://www.originaltommys.com/ Tommy's] is a famous burger chain in the LA area. This place was a food shrine to the American Hamburger and people used to come from miles around to get them. Pynchon moves the location one block east from Rampart and Beverly to Coronado and Beverly.

Krishna, the fry cook, could this be the same Krishna who shows up in Vineland as the sound man for 24 fps?/CW/

==Page 75==
'''Ron Karenga''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Karenga Ron Karenga] is an influential African American activist. He invented Kwanzaa. Back in the day in some quarters he was thought to be an agent provocateur in the employ of the FBI, especially after the shoot out at UCLA in January 1969 that left two Black Panthers, Alprentice Bunchy Carter and John Huggens, dead.

'''Can I be frank for a minute''' 
A bad joke since Doc starts to sing Frank Sinatra's "Fly Me to the Moon."

'''Lew Erskine''' 
main character in the TV show, "F.B.I.," which ran 1965-74. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058801/ IMDB]

==Page 76==
'''Ralph's''' 
Ubiquitous grocery chain in California. Plays an important role in the Coen brothers' ''The Big Lebowski'', a film to which Inherent Vice is often compared.

==Page 77==
'''before he's slipped, as Jim Morrison might put it, "into unconsciousness"...''' 
lyrics from "The Crystal Ship" by The Doors: "Before you slip into unconsciousness / I'd like to have another kiss." The song was on the Doors' first album, The Doors, released in January 1967. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awi14wDTxNw Have a listen on YouTube...]

'''as Fats Domino always sez, "Never to be"...''' 
"Blueberry Hill" was written in 1940 and was recorded by Gene Krupa, Glenn Miller, Jimmy Dorsey and Gene Autry, and others. In 1956, Fats Domino (b. 1928) recorded it and it was a #2 hit on the Billboard Top 40. Excerpt:

:The wind in the willow played 
:Love's sweet melody 
:But all of those vows we made 
:Were never to be

'''Hawaiian shirt''' 
One was worn by Tyrone Slothrop in ''Gravity's Rainbow'', part 2.

==Page 78==
'''Beach Boys''' 
This must follow some Beach Boys melody. Anyone?

Pynchon's Boards' lyrics bear more than passing similarity to the lyrics of the Beach Boys' 1963 song, "Shut Down."[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ykmekz9--t8&NR=1 A live version.] Note the scarcely-competent sax solo by Mike Love, which provides some support for Doc's and Hope Harlingen's opinion, at page 37, of the general level of surf sax playing.

The Beach Boys song was co-written with KHJ DJ [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Christian_(songwriter) Roger Christian], who was likely the source of the car terminology.

'''GTO'''[[File:1966GTO.jpg|thumb|right|1966 Pontiac GTO (Gran Turismo Omologato), Photo from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontiac_GTO Wikipedia]]]

==Page 79==
'''A toda madre!''' 
from Urban Dictionary:
Mexican slang that means something is totally awesome. Often abbreviated, especially in graffiti, as ATM.

"La fiesta estuvo a toda madre." translation: "The party was totally awesome."

==Page 80==
'''like Moe going, "Spread out!"''' 
Moe, of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_stooges Three Stooges] would yell "Spread out!" to the other two, and sometimes some other people, when fighting.

[[File:VincentThomasBridge.jpg|thumb|100px|right|The Vincent Thomas Bridge by night, as it appears today.]]
'''Kai Tak''' 
Kai Tak Airport was the international airport of Hong Kong from 1925 until 1998.

'''San Pedro, Terminal Island, Vincent Thomas Bridge''' 
All back in L.A.

==Page 81==
[[File:Cheongsam.jpg|thumb|100px|right|Model in a red cheongsam. [http://www.cheongsamboutique.com/2008/07/cheongsam-qipao.html Source]]]
'''Cheongsam''' 
a body-hugging one-piece Chinese dress for women.

'''Fan-tan... dollar-a-stone Go''' 
Fan-Tan is a form of gambling long played in China that has similarities to roulette. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan-Tan Wikipedia]. The "stones" in "dollar-a-stone Go" most likely refers to the point differential at the end of the game, usually ten or less between evenly matched players.

==Page 82==
'''LZ''' 
Vietnam soldier slang for "landing zone."

==Page 83==
'''Dan ranking''' 
the dan ranking system is a Japanese mark of level is used in martial arts (and also traditional fine arts, including mastery of the board game, Go).

'''1956 Fireflite ragtop'''[[File:1956Fireflite.jpg|thumb|right|1956 DeSoto Fireflite Convertible, photo by [http://www.flickr.com/photos/bsabarnowl/2784312247/ bsabarnowl / Creative Commons]]]

==Page 85==
[[File:PostExchange.jpg|thumb|100px|right|Post Exchange in Mogadishu, Somalia.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PostExchange.jpg Source]]]
'''PX''' 
abbreviation of Post Exchange. A service mark used for a military store on an Army or Naval base that sells goods to military personnel. Apparently, the PX often appeared in the Beetle Bailey comic strip from the 1950s. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_exchange Wikipedia].

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==Page 364==
'''. . . the Lakers would lose Game 7 of the finals to the Knicks''' 
Friday, May 8, 1970. The final score was Knicks 113, Lakers 99.

==Page 365==
'''Ones and zeros''' 
Binary code, the language of computers. Also mentioned in ''Vineland'' (pp. 90 and 115) and in ''Crying of Lot 49''.

==Page 366==
'''Tubular, dude''' 
A nice pun. "Tubular," in surfer slang, means something like "awesome" or "cool." It refers to the tubes or curls of the waves. But in the context here with Doc and Sparky, the tubes in question are vacuum tubes, which were used on computers (and radios and TVs and speakers) before transistors.

==Pages 368/369==

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

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

This series of street names and off-ramps points to Manhattan Beach where Pynchon wrote much of [http://gravitysrainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow''] while living in a tiny beach apartment in the north end of the city around between 1967-1971. The Manhattan Beach Boulevard exit to Doc house would Rosecrans . The Artesia exit is after Hawthorne. [http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&safe=off&ei=JoxrSo7SGY2CsgPN_LSXBQ&resnum=0&q=Manhattan+beach+california&um=1&ie=UTF-8&split=0&gl=us Google Maps]; [http://www.theaesthetic.com/NewFiles/pynchon.html Much more about Pynchon in Manhattan Beach...]

'''For the fog to burn away, and for something else this time, somehow, to be there instead.''' 
The endings of Pynchon's novels are justifiably famous, and these final paragraphs about driving through the fog, capped by this heart-breaking sentence-fragment, are no exception.

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'''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 pg. 273, the perennially sober Bigfoot is described as a "literal-minded natch-meister."
more than sober on the natch referring to a natural high as in RR Crumbs Mr. Natural/cw/

==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.

==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.

'''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].

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

==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

==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 drugs, as in [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=head+shop "head shop"].

==Page 181==

''''64 Dodge Dart'''
[[File:1964_Dodge_Dart.jpg|thumb|200px|left|1964 Dodge Dart Sedan, photo by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:64_Dodge_Dart_F34.jpg Scheinwerfermann]
]]
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Chapter 1

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==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. Figuratively, it refers to the ideal life to be found beneath the confines of society.

==Dedication==
Like ''Against the Day,'' Inherent Vice has no dedication. Pynchon dedicated 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

'''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/en/about-mount-shasta.htm Mt. Shasta and the Lemurian Connection]. Located near the northern end of California, Pynchon would likely have been familiar with this mythology.

'''They stood in the street light through the kitchen window 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 33]] of ''Inherent Vice''.

==Page 3==
'''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 ''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''. ''Can't Buy Me Love'' was recorded on 29 January 1964 at EMI's Pathe Marconi Studios in Paris, France along with the German language version of ''She Loves You''—''Sie Liebt Dich'', and ''Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand''—the German Language version of ''I Want to Hold Your Hand''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can't_Buy_Me_Love Wikipedia]

[[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" as they generally had fairly sharp metal tines.

==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]

==Page 5==
'''1959 Cadillac Biarritz''' 
a luxury version of the Eldorado. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_Eldorado Wikipedia].

[[File:59Biarritz.jpg|thumb|200px|right|1959 Cadillac Biarritz, Creative Commons licensed photo from [http://www.flickr.com/photos/82046831@N00/2812155325/ here]]]

==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.

'''Tree Section''' 
Section of Manhattan Beach west of Sepulveda Blvd, filled with family homes. Generally more upscale than Doc's neighborhood. Pynchon lived in Manhattan Beach in 1969-1970 while working on [http://gravitysrainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow'']. Gordita Beach is the fictionalized Manhattan Beach.

==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 pg. 115 of ''Vineland''.

==Page 8==
'''Channel View Estates''' 

Echo of "Channel Valley Condoms"—''"If you lived here, you'd be home by now"''— from the Firesign Theater's "How Can You Be In Two Places At Once When You're Not Anywhere At All." Also continues the theme of rampant Tubaholism from [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page '''Vineland'''].

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

==Page 9==
'''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?

'''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''.

'''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]

==Page 10==
'''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]. wa

it was recounted by the author 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." -CW

the name Godzilla was the nick name of a grip at Toho Studios in Toyko as he was strong enough to carry around lots of studio lighting and light stands. /CW

'''Gottlieb machines''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlieb Gottlieb] is a corporation that makes pinball machines and arcade games.

Sidney Gottlieb headed the CIA's MK-Ultra project, way back in 1953. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Gottlieb Wilipedia]

==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 said 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...]
At Playa Vista High Shasta was beauty queen four years running...Mira Costa High is the HS in
Manhattan Beach

"Dennis came back with Pizza. I forgot what i asked for on it."
Pynchon had a passion for pizza and had proposed making a film with the FPS group of San Francisco entitled "Mondo Pizza".

==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, ''Gravity's Rainbow'', pg 137: "...you begin to wait for something terrible-- not exactly an air raid but something close to that."; ''Gravity's Rainbow'', pg 580: "Not as an enterprise, exactly, but at least in the dance of things."

'''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.

==Page 13==
'''DOC'S OFFICE WAS located near the airport, off East Imperial''' 

The southern edge of Watts. Imperial Highway goes from west to east right after the Harbor Freeway, changing about a mile and a half from the center of Watts.

'''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 [[Vineland]]. He shared, along with ninjette DL Chastain, "a fondness for enlightenment through asskicking."

==Page 15==
'''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.

==Page 16==
'''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.

==Page 17==
'''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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Chapter 1

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:'''<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. Figuratively, it refers to the ideal life to be found beneath the confines of society.

==Dedication==
Like ''Against the Day,'' Inherent Vice has no dedication. Pynchon dedicated 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

'''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/en/about-mount-shasta.htm Mt. Shasta and the Lemurian Connection]. Located near the northern end of California, Pynchon would likely have been familiar with this mythology.

'''They stood in the street light through the kitchen window 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 33]] of ''Inherent Vice''.

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'''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 ''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''. ''Can't Buy Me Love'' was recorded on 29 January 1964 at EMI's Pathe Marconi Studios in Paris, France along with the German language version of ''She Loves You''—''Sie Liebt Dich'', and ''Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand''—the German Language version of ''I Want to Hold Your Hand''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can't_Buy_Me_Love Wikipedia]

[[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" as they generally had fairly sharp metal tines.

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'''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]

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

[[File:59Biarritz.jpg|thumb|200px|right|1959 Cadillac Biarritz, Creative Commons licensed photo from [http://www.flickr.com/photos/82046831@N00/2812155325/ here]]]

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'''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.

'''Tree Section''' 
Section of Manhattan Beach west of Sepulveda Blvd, filled with family homes. Generally more upscale than Doc's neighborhood. Pynchon lived in Manhattan Beach in 1969-1970 while working on [http://gravitysrainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow'']. Gordita Beach is the fictionalized Manhattan Beach.

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'''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 pg. 115 of ''Vineland''.

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'''Channel View Estates''' 

Echo of "Channel Valley Condoms"—''"If you lived here, you'd be home by now"''— from the Firesign Theater's "How Can You Be In Two Places At Once When You're Not Anywhere At All." Also continues the theme of rampant Tubaholism from [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page '''Vineland'''].

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

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'''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?

'''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''.

'''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]

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'''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]. wa

it was recounted by the author to his friends that to continue to collect royalties he had to come up with the sentence from his next book. the sentence was "Hiro stood in the wreckage of what was downtown Tokyo and studied the giant footprint and in with his Japanese accent exclaimed 'clearly reptilian." -CW

the name Godzilla was the nick name of a grip at Toho Studios in Toyko as he was strong enough to carry around lots of studio lighting and light stands. /CW

'''Gottlieb machines''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlieb Gottlieb] is a corporation that makes pinball machines and arcade games.

Sidney Gottlieb headed the CIA's MK-Ultra project, way back in 1953. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Gottlieb Wilipedia]

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'''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 said 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...]
At Playa Vista High Shasta was beauty queen four years running...Mira Costa High is the HS in
Manhattan Beach

"Dennis came back with Pizza. I forgot what i asked for on it."
Pynchon had a passion for pizza and had proposed making a film with the FPS group of San Francisco entitled "Mondo Pizza".

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'''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, ''Gravity's Rainbow'', pg 137: "...you begin to wait for something terrible-- not exactly an air raid but something close to that."; ''Gravity's Rainbow'', pg 580: "Not as an enterprise, exactly, but at least in the dance of things."

'''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.

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'''DOC'S OFFICE WAS located near the airport, off East Imperial''' 

The southern edge of Watts. Imperial Highway goes from west to east right after the Harbor Freeway, changing about a mile and a half from the center of Watts.

'''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]

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'''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 [[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.

==Page 16==
'''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.

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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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'''Cora Smith''' 
Also from ''The Postman Always Rings Twice''. This is another detective favorite of Pynchon from Dashell Hammett, the other being Dumbell Indemnity. /CW/

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'''Charlie the fucking Tuna''' 
Charlie the Tuna is a cartoon character and mascot for StarKist Tuna. You can see his "designer shades" and "beret" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_the_Tuna here].

'''single up all lines''' 
This is a special phrase for Pynchon. It is used in ''V.'' (pp.11 and 438), ''The Crying of Lot 49'' (p.31), ''Gravity's Rainbow'' (p.489), ''Mason & Dixon'' (pp.258 and 260), and it is the very first sentence of ''Against the Day''. Apparently, ''Vineland'' is the only novel without this phrase.

See [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_1-25#Page_1 here] for a longer note on the significance of this phrase.

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'''yet another Hitler documentary''' 
The "another" implies that they had watched other Hitler documentaries - the most famous being Leni Riefenstahl's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_of_the_will ''Triumph of the Will'']. The description of the Nixon rally that Doc is watching has similarities to ''Triumph''.

One of Pynchon's research materials for writing Gravity's Rainbow was a book called From Caligari to Hitler by Siegfried Kracauer- /CW/

Note that [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_of_the_will ''Triumph of the Will''] was a favorite film of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._Gordon_Liddy G. Gordon Liddy], a man responsible for the erruption of "Cop" shows on TV and the emergent "War on Drugs" in the early 70's.

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'''fuck Spiro, too!''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiro_Agnew Spiro Agnew] was Nixon's Vice President.

'''Anybody know the dog's name?''' 
Yes. Its name was [http://www.infoplease.com/biography/var/checkers.html Checkers].

'''the P-DIDdies''' 
A (deliberately) lame joke. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puff_daddy Sean Combs] is a rapper, producer, and entrepreneur whose stage names include Diddy, Puff Daddy, and P. Diddy.

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'''Cora Smith''' 
Also from ''The Postman Always Rings Twice''. This is another detective favorite of Pynchon from Dashell Hammett, the other being Dumbell Indemnity. /CW/

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'''Charlie the fucking Tuna''' 
Charlie the Tuna is a cartoon character and mascot for StarKist Tuna. You can see his "designer shades" and "beret" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_the_Tuna here].

'''single up all lines''' 
This is a special phrase for Pynchon. It is used in ''V.'' (pp.11 and 438), ''The Crying of Lot 49'' (p.31), ''Gravity's Rainbow'' (p.489), ''Mason & Dixon'' (pp.258 and 260), and it is the very first sentence of ''Against the Day''. Apparently, ''Vineland'' is the only novel without this phrase.

See [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_1-25#Page_1 here] for a longer note on the significance of this phrase.

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'''yet another Hitler documentary''' 
The "another" implies that they had watched other Hitler documentaries - the most famous being Leni Riefenstahl's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_of_the_will ''Triumph of the Will'']. The description of the Nixon rally that Doc is watching has similarities to ''Triumph''.

Note that [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_of_the_will ''Triumph of the Will''] was a favorite film of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._Gordon_Liddy G. Gordon Liddy], a man responsible for the erruption of "Cop" shows on TV and the emergent "War on Drugs" in the early 70's.

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'''fuck Spiro, too!''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiro_Agnew Spiro Agnew] was Nixon's Vice President.

'''Anybody know the dog's name?''' 
Yes. Its name was [http://www.infoplease.com/biography/var/checkers.html Checkers].

'''the P-DIDdies''' 
A (deliberately) lame joke. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puff_daddy Sean Combs] is a rapper, producer, and entrepreneur whose stage names include Diddy, Puff Daddy, and P. Diddy.

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'''Wouldn't it Be Nice''' 
Beach Boys, 1966, off the album ''Pet Sounds''.

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'''Tommy's''' 
[http://www.originaltommys.com/ Tommy's] is a famous burger chain in the LA area. This place was a food shrine to the American Hamburger and people used to come from miles around to get them. /CW/

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'''Ron Karenga''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Karenga Ron Karenga] is an influential African American activist. He invented Kwanzaa.

'''Can I be frank for a minute''' 
A bad joke since Doc starts to sing Frank Sinatra's "Fly Me to the Moon."

'''Lew Erskine''' 
main character in the TV show, "F.B.I.," which ran 1965-74. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058801/ IMDB]

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'''Ralph's''' 
Ubiquitous grocery chain in California.

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'''before he's slipped, as Jim Morrison might put it, "into unconsciousness"...''' 
lyrics from "The Crystal Ship" by The Doors: "Before you slip into unconsciousness / I'd like to have another kiss." The song was on the Doors' first album, The Doors, released in January 1967. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awi14wDTxNw Have a listen on YouTube...]

'''as Fats Domino always sez, "Never to be"...''' 
"Blueberry Hill" was written in 1940 and was recorded by Gene Krupa, Glenn Miller, Jimmy Dorsey and Gene Autry, and others. In 1956, Fats Domino (b. 1928) recorded it and it was a #2 hit on the Billboard Top 40. Excerpt:

:The wind in the willow played 
:Love's sweet melody 
:But all of those vows we made 
:Were never to be

'''Hawaiian shirt''' 
One was worn by Tyrone Slothrop in ''Gravity's Rainbow'', part 2.

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'''Beach Boys''' 
This must follow some Beach Boys melody. Anyone?

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'''A toda madre!''' 
from Urban Dictionary:
Mexican slang that means something is totally awesome. Often abbreviated, especially in graffiti, as ATM.

"La fiesta estuvo a toda madre." translation: "The party was totally awesome."

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'''like Moe going, "Spread out!"''' 
Moe, of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_stooges Three Stooges] would yell "Spread out!" to the other two, and sometimes some other people, when fighting.

[[File:VincentThomasBridge.jpg|thumb|100px|right|The Vincent Thomas Bridge by night, as it appears today.]]
'''Kai Tak''' 
Kai Tak Airport was the international airport of Hong Kong from 1925 until 1998.

'''San Pedro, Terminal Island, Vincent Thomas Bridge''' 
All back in L.A.

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[[File:Cheongsam.jpg|thumb|100px|right|Model in a red cheongsam. [http://www.cheongsamboutique.com/2008/07/cheongsam-qipao.html Source]]]
'''Cheongsam''' 
a body-hugging one-piece Chinese dress for women.

'''Fan-tan... dollar-a-stone Go''' 
Fan-Tan is a form of gambling long played in China that has similarities to roulette. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan-Tan Wikipedia]. 361 stones are used in a game of Go, making this a pricey game for the 60s...

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'''LZ''' 
Vietnam soldier slang for "landing zone."

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'''Dan ranking''' 
the dan ranking system is a Japanese mark of level is used in martial arts (and also traditional fine arts, including mastery of the board game, Go).

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[[File:PostExchange.jpg|thumb|100px|right|Post Exchange in Mogadishu, Somalia.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PostExchange.jpg Source]]]
'''PX''' 
abbreviation of Post Exchange. A service mark used for a military store on an Army or Naval base that sells goods to military personnel. Apparently, the PX often appeared in the Beetle Bailey comic strip from the 1950s. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_exchange Wikipedia].

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'''Bonzo Dog Band''' 
Located in the aesthetic cracks somewhere between the Goons and Monty Python, Spike Jones and Spinal Tap, The Bonzo Dog Band [formerly The Bonzo Doo-Dah Dog Band] was sometimes [incorrectly] cited as Britain's answer to Frank Zappa, The Bonzo Dog Band were the all-time masters of musical surrealism and not inconsequentially the Beatles favorite band. The Bonzo's performance of Sonny Bono's "Bang Bang [My Baby Shot Me Down]" appears as a bonus track on the 2007 reissue of their album "The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse."[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonzo_Dog_Doo-Dah_Band Wikipedia] 
The Bonzos perform "Death Cab For Cutie" on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9y4vLrHsm4 YouTube]

'''KRLA''' 
KRLA, "The Big 11-10", became one of the top radio stations in the Los Angeles area, competing with KFWB and KHJ to be L.A.'s dominant top 40 station. KRLA featured local DJs like Dave Hull (The Hullabalooer), Dick "Huggy Boy" Hugg, Emperor Bob Hudson, Ted Quillin, Bill Ballance, Reb Foster, Casey Kasem, Bob Eubanks, Dick Biondi, Sam Riddle, Dick Moreland, Jimmy O'Neill, Wink Martindale, Johnny Hayes.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDIS_(AM) Wikipedia] KRLA was also a major outlet for radio comedy, featuring live broadcasts of Stan Freberg, The Firesign Theater and the Credibility Gap.

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'''Robert Moses''' 
Robert Moses (1888 – 1981) was the "master builder" of mid-20th century New York City, Long Island, and Westchester County, New York. His career is summed up by his sayings "cities are for traffic" and "if the ends don't justify the means, what does?" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Moses Wikipedia]

'''Dr. Van Helsing''' 
A funny joke here. Helsing is a character in Bram Stoker's ''Dracula''. He's a vampire hunter.

'''Jimmy Wong Howe''' 
Master cinematographer James Wong Howe, whose career stretched from silent pictures through the mid-'70s, was born Wong Tung Jim in Canton (now Guangzhou), China, on August 28, 1899, the son of Wong How. Wong Howe was famed for his innovations, including putting a cameraman with a hand-held camera on roller skates inside a boxing ring for Body and Soul (1947) to draw the audience into the ring. . . [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002146/bio IMDb]
Howe also was the DP on the very revolutionary film 'the Molly Maguires. /cw?

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'''where John Garfield is this evil gangster''' 
John Garfield (1913-1952) was an American actor especially adept at playing brooding, rebellious, working-class character roles. He is acknowledged as the predecessor of such Method actors as Marlon Brando, James Dean, and Montgomery Clift. He was active in liberal politics, and when called to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, which was empowered to investigate purported communist infiltration in America, Garfield refused to name communist party members or followers, testifying that, indeed, he knew none in the film industry; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Garfield Wikipedia entry]

'''Ida Lupino''' 
Ida Lupino (1918 – 1995) was an Anglo-American film actress, director, and a pioneer among women filmmakers. In her forty-eight year career, she appeared in fifty-nine films, and directed nine others. She also appeared in episodic television fifty-eight times and directed fifty other episodes. In addition, she contributed as a writer to five films and four TV episodes. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Lupino Wikipedia]

'''arrepentimiento''' 
Spanish: n. repentance, penitence, contrition--all concepts important to ''Inherent Vice''.
There's also a cool trilingual pun here: "pentimento" (now an English word, but from the Italian for 'repent') refers to an image in a painting that was painted over but then, with time, begins to show through the top layer of represented images. Lots of ways to connect this multi-level word to the plot and themes of ''Inherent Vice''.

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'''Bucky Fuller''' 
Buckminster Fuller was an American architect and inventor (among other things). He invented the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geodesic_dome Geodesic dome].

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'''Hughes Company property''' 
Hughes Aircraft Company was a major aerospace and defense company founded by Howard Hughes. The group was based in Culver City, California. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_Aircraft Wikipedia]
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'''KQAS''' 

In [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ''Vineland''], while hassling dopers in Gordita Beach, Hector Zuniga's radio dial was always tuned to KQAS. 

:"I really want to tell you, man, about my car radio?" He moved closer to Mucho, who'd already read and filed Hector's story by now, and would presently begin to edge away. "Which is kin' of unique 'causs it only gits this one station? KQAS! Kick-Ass 460 on th' AM dial! 
:460 megahertz is the police band. 

'''Ondas Nudosas''' 
Spanish: "Gnarly Waves," Pynchon's hilarious (and also accurate) translation of surfer-speak for waves that are great to ride but challenging.

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'''Fritz Drybeam''' 
How much do you want to bet that ol' Fritz has CIA connections? 
'''Truth serum. Same kind the CIA uses''' 

See: [[Pynchon's California Trilogy and the CIA]]

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'''ARPAnet''' 
"It's a network of computers, Doc. all connected by phone lines. UCLA, Isla Vista, Stanford. Say there's a file they have up there and you don't, they'll send it right along at fifty thousand characters per second."

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.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET Wikipedia] 

while writing Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon met with some of the super nerds from TRW and found out about "the Web."/CW/

An interesting discussion about ARPAnet on pg. 195.

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'''ARPA''' 
Now '''DARPA'''

Created as the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) in February 1958. Its creation was directly attributed to the launching of Sputnik and to U.S. realization that the Soviet Union had developed the capacity to rapidly exploit military technology. [http://www.darpa.mil/history.html Darpa Website]

'''TRW''' 
TRW Incorporated was an American corporation involved in a number of businesses, mostly defense-related, but including automotive, aerospace and credit reporting."[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRW Wikipedia]

'''Ramo isn't telling Woolridge?''' 

The 1958 merger of Thompson with the Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation (named after Simon Ramo and Dean Wooldridge) was named Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc., then shortened to TRW Inc. in 1965.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRW Wikipedia]

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'''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]

==Page 22==
'''"Congratulations, hippie scum" Bigfoot greeted Doc in his all-too-familiar 30-weight voice, "and welcome to a world of inconvenience."''' 
Detective Lieutenant Bigfoot Bjornsen echos Walter Sobchak from "The Big Lebowski."—"Smokey, my friend, you are entering a world of pain."

==Page 24==
[[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]

==Page 26==
'''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.
==Page 28==
[[File:Donaldstubble.jpg|thumb|100px|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].

==Page 30==
'''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.

==Page 31==
'''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.

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

==Page 33==
'''huaraches''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huarache_(shoe) Huaraches] are Mexican sandals.

'''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.'"

[[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]

'''bricks and bricks of shit stacked to the roof''' 
In ''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" (pg. 294).

==Page 34==
'''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''.

==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==
'''kazoo''' 
I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that every Pynchon novel has a kazoo.
Who can forget Boyd Beaver's All Kazoo Orchestra.<CW>

'''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).

Roger Mexico and Jessica Swanlake are described as having had "what Hollywood likes to call a 'cute meet'" on page 39 of [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page Gravity's Rainbow].

==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 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].

==Page 43==
'''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 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: '''"Double Indemnity"'''.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Indemnity_(film) Wikipedia]

This song from Scott Oof's band—'''"Beer"'''—is pointing to the San Joaquin Valley, which in 1970 was about the un-hippest place in the known universe.

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==Page 20==
'''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]

==Page 22==
'''"Congratulations, hippie scum" Bigfoot greeted Doc in his all-too-familiar 30-weight voice, "and welcome to a world of inconvenience."''' 
Detective Lieutenant Bigfoot Bjornsen echos Walter Sobchak from "The Big Lebowski."—"Smokey, my friend, you are entering a world of pain."

==Page 24==
[[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]

==Page 26==
'''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.
==Page 28==
[[File:Donaldstubble.jpg|thumb|100px|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].

==Page 30==
'''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.

==Page 31==
'''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.

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

==Page 33==
'''huaraches''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huarache_(shoe) Huaraches] are Mexican sandals.

'''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.'"

[[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]

'''bricks and bricks of shit stacked to the roof''' 
In ''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" (pg. 294).

==Page 34==
'''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''.

==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==
'''kazoo''' 
I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that every Pynchon novel has a kazoo.
Who can forget Boyd Beaver's All Kazoo Orchestra.<CW>

'''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).

Roger Mexico and Jessica Swanlake are described as having had "what Hollywood likes to call a 'cute meet'" on page 39 of [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page Gravity's Rainbow].

==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 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].

==Page 43==
'''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 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.''' 
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: '''"Double Indemnity"'''.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Indemnity_(film) Wikipedia]

This song from Scott Oof's band—'''"Beer"'''—is pointing to the San Joaquin Valley, which in 1970 was about the un-hippest place in the known universe.

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==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. Figuratively, it refers to the ideal life to be found beneath the confines of society.

==Dedication==
Like ''Against the Day,'' Inherent Vice has no dedication. Pynchon dedicated 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

'''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/en/about-mount-shasta.htm Mt. Shasta and the Lemurian Connection]. Located near the northern end of California, Pynchon would likely have been familiar with this mythology.

'''They stood in the street light through the kitchen window 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 33]] of ''Inherent Vice''.

==Page 3==
'''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 ''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''. ''Can't Buy Me Love'' was recorded on 29 January 1964 at EMI's Pathe Marconi Studios in Paris, France along with the German language version of ''She Loves You''—''Sie Liebt Dich'', and ''Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand''—the German Language version of ''I Want to Hold Your Hand''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can't_Buy_Me_Love Wikipedia]

[[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" as they generally had fairly sharp metal tines.

==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]

==Page 5==
'''1959 Cadillac Biarritz''' 
a luxury version of the Eldorado. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_Eldorado Wikipedia].

[[File:59Biarritz.jpg|thumb|200px|right|1959 Cadillac Biarritz, Creative Commons licensed photo from [http://www.flickr.com/photos/82046831@N00/2812155325/ here]]]

==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 1969-1970— 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.

'''Tree Section''' 
Section of Manhattan Beach west of Sepulveda Blvd, filled with family homes. Generally more upscale than Doc's neighborhood. Pynchon lived in Manhattan Beach in 1969-1970 while working on [http://gravitysrainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow'']. Gordita Beach is the fictionalized Manhattan Beach.

==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 pg. 115 of ''Vineland''.

==Page 8==
'''Channel View Estates''' 

Echo of "Channel Valley Condoms"—''"If you lived here, you'd be home by now"''— from the Firesign Theater's "How Can You Be In Two Places At Once When You're Not Anywhere At All." Also continues the theme of rampant Tubaholism from [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page '''Vineland'''].

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

==Page 9==
'''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?

'''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''.

'''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]

==Page 10==
'''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]. wa

it was recounted by the author to his friends that to continue to collect royalties he had to come up with the sentence from his next book. the sentence was "Hiro stood in the wreckage of what was downtown Tokyo and studied the giant footprint and in with his Japanese accent exclaimed 'clearly reptilian." -CW

the name Godzilla was the nick name of a grip at Toho Studios in Toyko as he was strong enough to carry around lots of studio lighting and light stands. /CW

'''Gottlieb machines''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlieb Gottlieb] is a corporation that makes pinball machines and arcade games.

Sidney Gottlieb headed the CIA's MK-Ultra project, way back in 1953. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Gottlieb Wilipedia]

==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 said 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...]
At Playa Vista High Shasta was beauty queen four years running...Mira Costa High is the HS in
Manhattan Beach

"Dennis came back with Pizza. I forgot what i asked for on it."
Pynchon had a passion for pizza and had proposed making a film with the FPS group of San Francisco entitled "Mondo Pizza".

==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, ''Gravity's Rainbow'', pg 137: "...you begin to wait for something terrible-- not exactly an air raid but something close to that."; ''Gravity's Rainbow'', pg 580: "Not as an enterprise, exactly, but at least in the dance of things."

'''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.

==Page 13==
'''DOC'S OFFICE WAS located near the airport, off East Imperial''' 

The southern edge of Watts. Imperial Highway goes from west to east right after the Harbor Freeway, changing about a mile and a half from the center of Watts.

'''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.

==Page 15==
'''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.

==Page 16==
'''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.

==Page 17==
'''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]

{{Inherent Vice PbP}}

Chapter 1

2009-08-08T00:17:45Z

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:'''<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. Figuratively, it refers to the ideal life to be found beneath the confines of society.

==Dedication==
Like ''Against the Day,'' Inherent Vice has no dedication. Pynchon dedicated 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

'''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/en/about-mount-shasta.htm Mt. Shasta and the Lemurian Connection]. Located near the northern end of California, Pynchon would likely have been familiar with this mythology.

'''They stood in the street light through the kitchen window 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 33]] of ''Inherent Vice''.

==Page 3==
'''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 ''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''. ''Can't Buy Me Love'' was recorded on 29 January 1964 at EMI's Pathe Marconi Studios in Paris, France along with the German language version of ''She Loves You''—''Sie Liebt Dich'', and ''Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand''—the German Language version of ''I Want to Hold Your Hand''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can't_Buy_Me_Love Wikipedia]

[[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" as they generally had fairly sharp metal tines.

==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]

==Page 5==
'''1959 Cadillac Biarritz''' 
a luxury version of the Eldorado. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_Eldorado Wikipedia].

[[File:59Biarritz.jpg|thumb|200px|right|1959 Cadillac Biarritz, Creative Commons licensed photo from [http://www.flickr.com/photos/82046831@N00/2812155325/ here]]]

==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 1969-1970— 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.

'''Tree Section''' 
Section of Manhattan Beach west of Sepulveda Blvd, filled with family homes. Generally more upscale than Doc's neighborhood. Pynchon lived in Manhattan Beach in 1969-1970 while working on [http://gravitysrainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow'']. Gordita Beach is the fictionalized Manhattan Beach.

==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 pg. 115 of ''Vineland''.

==Page 8==
'''Channel View Estates''' 

Echo of "Channel Valley Condoms"—''"If you lived here, you'd be home by now"''— from the Firesign Theater's "How Can You Be In Two Places At Once When You're Not Anywhere At All." Also continues the theme of rampant Tubaholism from [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page '''Vineland'''].

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

==Page 9==
'''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?

'''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''.

'''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]

==Page 10==
'''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].

'''Gottlieb machines''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlieb Gottlieb] is a corporation that makes pinball machines and arcade games.

Sidney Gottlieb headed the CIA's MK-Ultra project, way back in 1953. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Gottlieb Wilipedia]

==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 said 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...]
At Playa Vista High Shasta was beauty queen four years running...Mira Costa High is the HS in
Manhattan Beach

"Dennis came back with Pizza. I forgot what i asked for on it."
Pynchon had a passion for pizza and had proposed making a film with the FPS group of San Francisco entitled "Mondo Pizza".

==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, ''Gravity's Rainbow'', pg 137: "...you begin to wait for something terrible-- not exactly an air raid but something close to that."; ''Gravity's Rainbow'', pg 580: "Not as an enterprise, exactly, but at least in the dance of things."

'''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.

==Page 13==
'''DOC'S OFFICE WAS located near the airport, off East Imperial''' 

The southern edge of Watts. Imperial Highway goes from west to east right after the Harbor Freeway, changing about a mile and a half from the center of Watts.

'''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.

==Page 15==
'''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.

==Page 16==
'''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.

==Page 17==
'''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]

{{Inherent Vice PbP}}

Chapter 1

2009-08-05T05:08:26Z

ChaseWinston: /* Page 11 */

:'''<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]]

==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. Figuratively, it refers to the ideal life to be found beneath the confines of society.

==Dedication==
Like ''Against the Day,'' Inherent Vice has no dedication. Pynchon dedicated 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

'''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/en/about-mount-shasta.htm Mt. Shasta and the Lemurian Connection]. Located near the northern end of California, Pynchon would likely have been familiar with this mythology.

'''They stood in the street light through the kitchen window 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 33]] of ''Inherent Vice''.

==Page 3==
'''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 ''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''. ''Can't Buy Me Love'' was recorded on 29 January 1964 at EMI's Pathe Marconi Studios in Paris, France along with the German language version of ''She Loves You''—''Sie Liebt Dich'', and ''Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand''—the German Language version of ''I Want to Hold Your Hand''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can't_Buy_Me_Love Wikipedia]

[[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" as they generally had fairly sharp metal tines.

==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]

==Page 5==
'''1959 Cadillac Biarritz''' 
a luxury version of the Eldorado. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_Eldorado Wikipedia].

[[File:59Biarritz.jpg|thumb|200px|right|1959 Cadillac Biarritz, Creative Commons licensed photo from [http://www.flickr.com/photos/82046831@N00/2812155325/ here]]]

==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 1969-1970 (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.

'''Tree Section''' 
Section of Manhattan Beach west of Sepulveda Blvd, filled with family homes. Generally more upscale than Doc's neighborhood. And, as we know, it is believed that Pynchon lived in Manhattan Beach in 1969-1970 while working on [http://gravitysrainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow'']. Gordita Beach is the fictionalized Manhattan Beach.

==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 pg. 115 of ''Vineland''.

==Page 8==
'''Channel View Estates''' 

Echo of "Channel Valley Condoms"—''"If you lived here, you'd be home by now"''— from the Firesign Theater's "How Can You Be In Two Places At Once When You're Not Anywhere At All." Also continues the theme of rampant Tubaholism from [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page '''Vineland'''].

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

==Page 9==
'''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?

'''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''.

'''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]

==Page 10==
'''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].

'''Gottlieb machines''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlieb Gottlieb] is a corporation that makes pinball machines and arcade games.

==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 said 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...]
At Playa Vista High Shasta was beauty queen four years running...Mira Costa High is the HS in
Manhattan Beach

"Dennis came back with Pizza. I forgot what i asked for on it."
Pynchon had a passion for pizza and had proposed making a film with the FPS group of San Francisco entitled "Mondo Pizza".

==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, ''Gravity's Rainbow'', pg 137: "...you begin to wait for something terrible-- not exactly an air raid but something close to that."; ''Gravity's Rainbow'', pg 580: "Not as an enterprise, exactly, but at least in the dance of things."

==Page 13==
'''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].

'''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.

==Page 15==
'''Olivetti Lettera 22''' 
A portable typewriter. See it [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivetti_Lettera_22 here].

==Page 16==
'''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.

==Page 17==
'''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].

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Chapter 1

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==Title==
"Inherent Vice" has a number of meanings. See [[Inherent Vice Title]]

==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. Figuratively, it refers to the ideal life to be found beneath the confines of society.

==Dedication==
Like ''Against the Day,'' Inherent Vice has no dedication. Pynchon dedicated 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

'''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/en/about-mount-shasta.htm Mt. Shasta and the Lemurian Connection]. Located near the northern end of California, Pynchon would likely have been familiar with this mythology.

'''They stood in the street light through the kitchen window 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 33]] of ''Inherent Vice''.

==Page 3==
'''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 ''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''. ''Can't Buy Me Love'' was recorded on 29 January 1964 at EMI's Pathe Marconi Studios in Paris, France along with the German language version of ''She Loves You''—''Sie Liebt Dich'', and ''Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand''—the German Language version of ''I Want to Hold Your Hand''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can't_Buy_Me_Love Wikipedia]

[[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" as they generally had fairly sharp metal tines.

==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]

==Page 5==
'''1959 Cadillac Biarritz''' 
a luxury version of the Eldorado. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_Eldorado Wikipedia].

[[File:59Biarritz.jpg|thumb|200px|right|1959 Cadillac Biarritz, Creative Commons licensed photo from [http://www.flickr.com/photos/82046831@N00/2812155325/ here]]]

==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 1969-1970 (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.

'''Tree Section''' 
Section of Manhattan Beach west of Sepulveda Blvd, filled with family homes. Generally more upscale than Doc's neighborhood. And, as we know, it is believed that Pynchon lived in Manhattan Beach in 1969-1970 while working on [http://gravitysrainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow'']. Gordita Beach is the fictionalized Manhattan Beach.

==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 pg. 115 of ''Vineland''.

==Page 8==
'''Channel View Estates''' 

Echo of "Channel Valley Condoms"—''"If you lived here, you'd be home by now"''— from the Firesign Theater's "How Can You Be In Two Places At Once When You're Not Anywhere At All." Also continues the theme of rampant Tubaholism from [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page '''Vineland'''].

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

==Page 9==
'''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?

'''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''.

'''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]

==Page 10==
'''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].

'''Gottlieb machines''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlieb Gottlieb] is a corporation that makes pinball machines and arcade games.

==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 said 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...]

==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, ''Gravity's Rainbow'', pg 137: "...you begin to wait for something terrible-- not exactly an air raid but something close to that."; ''Gravity's Rainbow'', pg 580: "Not as an enterprise, exactly, but at least in the dance of things."

==Page 13==
'''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].

'''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.

==Page 15==
'''Olivetti Lettera 22''' 
A portable typewriter. See it [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivetti_Lettera_22 here].

==Page 16==
'''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.

==Page 17==
'''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].

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