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Chapter 10

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==Page 154==
'''"...the phone began a God-awful clanging."''' 
See page 34. Doc's phone at the office is diffident; his phone at home clangs. Is this ambivalence about his work, while reality intrudes noisily on his home?

==Page 155==
'''"Soul Gidget"''' 
These lyrics have some similarities with "Shaft" by Isaac Hayes:

:''Who's the black private dick ''
:''That's a sex machine to all the chicks? ''
:''Shaft!''

:''Who is the man ''
:''That would risk his neck for his brother man? ''
:''Shaft!''

Soul Gidget makes a brief appearance on [http://bleedingedge.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_33#Page_362 page 362] of ''Bleeding Edge''.

'''signifyin on your mama''' 
"Signifyin" is a verbal strategy employed in the African-American culture. The idea was developed most fully in Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s book ''The Signifying Monkey''. Signifyin indicates a kind of play or trickster technique. "Yo mama" jokes also appear in ''Mason & Dixon'' [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_44:_440-447#Page_445 (pg. 445)] and ''Against the Day'' [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_1-25#Page_12 (pg. 12)].

'''[http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/18/arts/music/wild-man-fischer-outsider-musician-dies-at-66.html Wild Man Fischer]''' 
Mentally ill Los Angeles street musician who was discovered on Sunset Strip and signed by Frank Zappa to a record contract with Bizarre Records. Died June 16, 2011. Was mentioned also on page 309 of ''Vineland''.

YouTube video of WMF performing "My Sweet Little Cathy" [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqei5299Q0Q]

'''Pink's''' 
[http://www.pinkshollywood.com/ Pink's] bills itself as "Hot Dogs to the Stars." It's been in the Hollywood area since 1939.

==Page 156==
'''"This Guy's in Love with You"''' 
A nitpick, perhaps, but this single was actually not a Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass release. It was credited to Herb Alpert. If deliberate, this may have been to show how little Doc followed that kind of music. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Guy%27s_in_Love_with_You Wikipedia]

==Page 157==
'''"Stick around, Barney"''' 
See [[Chapter_7#barney|entry, p. 102]]

'''Jason Velveeta''' 
Velveeta, a notoriously plastic "processed cheese product" is probably fueling a roundabout slang joke on "cheddar," used recently to mean money, specifically a pimp or dealer's money. Hence, Jason Velveeta is not really a very good pimp.

As cheeses go, Velveeta is fake, soft and easily melted. "Jason" is a quintessentially middle-class white first name. Velveeta is also associated with middle-class white culture in its most unhip and soul-free form. See, for example, this recent [http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s2i32975 spoof news story].

==Page 159==
'''O Cangaceiro'''
A Portuguese word rooted in "canga," meaning "yoke," that means "brigand" or "highwayman." In Brazilian Portuguese it carries the meaning "braggart."

==Page 160==
'''"Desafinado"''' 
A bossa nova-style song written by Jobim. Stan Getz's version was a hit in 1962. The title translates as "off key" or "out of tune."

'''a curious sort of hippie chick approached the piano, her hair short and tightly permed''' 
Remove that "hippie," and the picture is remarkably like that of Janet Leigh in the mid-'60s movie version of ''An American Dream'' (1966). Leigh doesn't sing Schwartz & Dietz, but the character's bossa-nova style performance of a Johnny Mandel song is much like the music described here.

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TXddcs68u8 Watch]

'''Little Black Dress''' 
Simply cut, often short, cocktail dress [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_black_dress]. It's worth noting that the dress our singer is wearing is described as being from the 1950s, since the most famous, perhaps, little black dress of them all was worn by Audrey Hepburn in the later 1961 film [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakfast_at_Tiffany%27s_%28film%29 Breakfast at Tiffany's.]

'''I can sure relate to that lyric, man''' 
And here are the lyrics to "It Never Entered My Mind":
:I don't care if there's powder on my nose. 
:I don't care if my hairdo is in place. 
:I've lost the very meaning of repose. 
:I never put a mudpack on my face. 
:Oh, who'd have thought 
:that I'd walk in the daze now? 
:I never go to shows at night, 
:but just to matinees now. 
:I see the show 
:and home I go. 

:Once I laughed when I heard you saying 
:that I'd be playing solitaire, 
:uneasy in my easy chair. 
:It never entered my mind. 

:Once you told me I was mistaken, 
:that I'd awaken with the sun 
:and order orange juice for one. 
:It never entered my mind. 

:You have what I lack myself 
:and now I even have to scratch my back myself. 

:Once you warned me that if you scorned me 
:I'd sing the maiden's prayer again 
:and wish that you where there again 
:to get into my hair again. 
:It never entered my mind. 

Introduced in the show ''Higher and Higher'' in 1940, where it was performed by Shirley Ross. Famous renditions of the song in the '50s and '60s that may have inspired our singer in the Little Black Dress were done by Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis (as a jazz instrumental), and Leontyne Price (!).

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrgDbS9aHF4 Listen] and let Peggy Lee break your heart, too.

'''Dietz & Schwartz's 'Alone Together'''' 
These lyrics are also relevant to the scene, and to ''Inherent Vice'' as a whole:

:Alone together, beyond the crowd, 
:Above the world, we're not too proud 
:To cling together, We're strong 
:As long as we're together. 

:Alone together, the blinding rain 
:The starless night, were not in vain; 
:For we're together, and what is there 
:To fear together. 

:Our love is as deep as the sea, 
:Our love is as great as a love can be, 
:And we can weather the great unknown, 
:If we're alone together. 

Introduced in the revue ''Flying Colors'' (1932), the song has had famous interpreters, including Ella Fitzgerald and Ray Charles. There's another important D&S allusion in an upcoming chapter, folks. TP a connoisseur too of Broadway show tunes--who knew?

'''"...Doc bought himself and Coy cachaca with beer chasers."''' 
Cachaca is a rum-like beverage made from bagasse, the crushed fiber of sugar cane that is left over when sugar is made. It is a national symbol of Brazil and the basic ingredient of caipirinha.

==Page 162==

'''Samba do Avião''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK-k0SstIJQ Song] by Antonio Jobim. Title translates into "Song of the Jet." [http://lyrics.wikia.com/Tony_Bennett:Samba_Do_Avi%C3%A3o Lyrics,] in English translation, are a tribute to Rio de Janeiro as seen from a returning airplane. Substitute Los Angeles for Rio and the connection with certain parts of Inherent Vice become even more obvious.

'''then sat through the dawn''' 
Morning, the thirteenth day of the narrative, Sunday, April 5, 1970.

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==Page 154==
'''"...the phone began a God-awful clanging."''' 
See page 34. Doc's phone at the office is diffident; his phone at home clangs. Is this ambivalence about his work, while reality intrudes noisily on his home?

==Page 155==
'''"Soul Gidget"''' 
These lyrics have some similarities with "Shaft" by Isaac Hayes:

:''Who's the black private dick ''
:''That's a sex machine to all the chicks? ''
:''Shaft!''

:''Who is the man ''
:''That would risk his neck for his brother man? ''
:''Shaft!''

Soul Gidget makes a brief appearance on [http://bleedingedge.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_33#Page_362 page 362] of Bleeding Edge.

'''signifyin on your mama''' 
"Signifyin" is a verbal strategy employed in the African-American culture. The idea was developed most fully in Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s book ''The Signifying Monkey''. Signifyin indicates a kind of play or trickster technique. "Yo mama" jokes also appear in ''Mason & Dixon'' [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_44:_440-447#Page_445 (pg. 445)] and ''Against the Day'' [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_1-25#Page_12 (pg. 12)].

'''[http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/18/arts/music/wild-man-fischer-outsider-musician-dies-at-66.html Wild Man Fischer]''' 
Mentally ill Los Angeles street musician who was discovered on Sunset Strip and signed by Frank Zappa to a record contract with Bizarre Records. Died June 16, 2011. Was mentioned also on page 309 of ''Vineland''.

YouTube video of WMF performing "My Sweet Little Cathy" [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqei5299Q0Q]

'''Pink's''' 
[http://www.pinkshollywood.com/ Pink's] bills itself as "Hot Dogs to the Stars." It's been in the Hollywood area since 1939.

==Page 156==
'''"This Guy's in Love with You"''' 
A nitpick, perhaps, but this single was actually not a Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass release. It was credited to Herb Alpert. If deliberate, this may have been to show how little Doc followed that kind of music. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Guy%27s_in_Love_with_You Wikipedia]

==Page 157==
'''"Stick around, Barney"''' 
See [[Chapter_7#barney|entry, p. 102]]

'''Jason Velveeta''' 
Velveeta, a notoriously plastic "processed cheese product" is probably fueling a roundabout slang joke on "cheddar," used recently to mean money, specifically a pimp or dealer's money. Hence, Jason Velveeta is not really a very good pimp.

As cheeses go, Velveeta is fake, soft and easily melted. "Jason" is a quintessentially middle-class white first name. Velveeta is also associated with middle-class white culture in its most unhip and soul-free form. See, for example, this recent [http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s2i32975 spoof news story].

==Page 159==
'''O Cangaceiro'''
A Portuguese word rooted in "canga," meaning "yoke," that means "brigand" or "highwayman." In Brazilian Portuguese it carries the meaning "braggart."

==Page 160==
'''"Desafinado"''' 
A bossa nova-style song written by Jobim. Stan Getz's version was a hit in 1962. The title translates as "off key" or "out of tune."

'''a curious sort of hippie chick approached the piano, her hair short and tightly permed''' 
Remove that "hippie," and the picture is remarkably like that of Janet Leigh in the mid-'60s movie version of ''An American Dream'' (1966). Leigh doesn't sing Schwartz & Dietz, but the character's bossa-nova style performance of a Johnny Mandel song is much like the music described here.

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TXddcs68u8 Watch]

'''Little Black Dress''' 
Simply cut, often short, cocktail dress [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_black_dress]. It's worth noting that the dress our singer is wearing is described as being from the 1950s, since the most famous, perhaps, little black dress of them all was worn by Audrey Hepburn in the later 1961 film [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakfast_at_Tiffany%27s_%28film%29 Breakfast at Tiffany's.]

'''I can sure relate to that lyric, man''' 
And here are the lyrics to "It Never Entered My Mind":
:I don't care if there's powder on my nose. 
:I don't care if my hairdo is in place. 
:I've lost the very meaning of repose. 
:I never put a mudpack on my face. 
:Oh, who'd have thought 
:that I'd walk in the daze now? 
:I never go to shows at night, 
:but just to matinees now. 
:I see the show 
:and home I go. 

:Once I laughed when I heard you saying 
:that I'd be playing solitaire, 
:uneasy in my easy chair. 
:It never entered my mind. 

:Once you told me I was mistaken, 
:that I'd awaken with the sun 
:and order orange juice for one. 
:It never entered my mind. 

:You have what I lack myself 
:and now I even have to scratch my back myself. 

:Once you warned me that if you scorned me 
:I'd sing the maiden's prayer again 
:and wish that you where there again 
:to get into my hair again. 
:It never entered my mind. 

Introduced in the show ''Higher and Higher'' in 1940, where it was performed by Shirley Ross. Famous renditions of the song in the '50s and '60s that may have inspired our singer in the Little Black Dress were done by Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis (as a jazz instrumental), and Leontyne Price (!).

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrgDbS9aHF4 Listen] and let Peggy Lee break your heart, too.

'''Dietz & Schwartz's 'Alone Together'''' 
These lyrics are also relevant to the scene, and to ''Inherent Vice'' as a whole:

:Alone together, beyond the crowd, 
:Above the world, we're not too proud 
:To cling together, We're strong 
:As long as we're together. 

:Alone together, the blinding rain 
:The starless night, were not in vain; 
:For we're together, and what is there 
:To fear together. 

:Our love is as deep as the sea, 
:Our love is as great as a love can be, 
:And we can weather the great unknown, 
:If we're alone together. 

Introduced in the revue ''Flying Colors'' (1932), the song has had famous interpreters, including Ella Fitzgerald and Ray Charles. There's another important D&S allusion in an upcoming chapter, folks. TP a connoisseur too of Broadway show tunes--who knew?

'''"...Doc bought himself and Coy cachaca with beer chasers."''' 
Cachaca is a rum-like beverage made from bagasse, the crushed fiber of sugar cane that is left over when sugar is made. It is a national symbol of Brazil and the basic ingredient of caipirinha.

==Page 162==

'''Samba do Avião''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK-k0SstIJQ Song] by Antonio Jobim. Title translates into "Song of the Jet." [http://lyrics.wikia.com/Tony_Bennett:Samba_Do_Avi%C3%A3o Lyrics,] in English translation, are a tribute to Rio de Janeiro as seen from a returning airplane. Substitute Los Angeles for Rio and the connection with certain parts of Inherent Vice become even more obvious.

'''then sat through the dawn''' 
Morning, the thirteenth day of the narrative, Sunday, April 5, 1970.

{{Inherent Vice PbP}}

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==Page 154==
'''"...the phone began a God-awful clanging."''' 
See page 34. Doc's phone at the office is diffident; his phone at home clangs. Is this ambivalence about his work, while reality intrudes noisily on his home?

==Page 155==
'''"Soul Gidget"''' 
These lyrics have some similarities with "Shaft" by Isaac Hayes:

:''Who's the black private dick ''
:''That's a sex machine to all the chicks? ''
:''Shaft!''

:''Who is the man ''
:''That would risk his neck for his brother man? ''
:''Shaft!''

Soul Gidget makes a brief appearance on page 362 of Bleeding Edge.

'''signifyin on your mama''' 
"Signifyin" is a verbal strategy employed in the African-American culture. The idea was developed most fully in Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s book ''The Signifying Monkey''. Signifyin indicates a kind of play or trickster technique. "Yo mama" jokes also appear in ''Mason & Dixon'' [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_44:_440-447#Page_445 (pg. 445)] and ''Against the Day'' [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_1-25#Page_12 (pg. 12)].

'''[http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/18/arts/music/wild-man-fischer-outsider-musician-dies-at-66.html Wild Man Fischer]''' 
Mentally ill Los Angeles street musician who was discovered on Sunset Strip and signed by Frank Zappa to a record contract with Bizarre Records. Died June 16, 2011. Was mentioned also on page 309 of ''Vineland''.

YouTube video of WMF performing "My Sweet Little Cathy" [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqei5299Q0Q]

'''Pink's''' 
[http://www.pinkshollywood.com/ Pink's] bills itself as "Hot Dogs to the Stars." It's been in the Hollywood area since 1939.

==Page 156==
'''"This Guy's in Love with You"''' 
A nitpick, perhaps, but this single was actually not a Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass release. It was credited to Herb Alpert. If deliberate, this may have been to show how little Doc followed that kind of music. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Guy%27s_in_Love_with_You Wikipedia]

==Page 157==
'''"Stick around, Barney"''' 
See [[Chapter_7#barney|entry, p. 102]]

'''Jason Velveeta''' 
Velveeta, a notoriously plastic "processed cheese product" is probably fueling a roundabout slang joke on "cheddar," used recently to mean money, specifically a pimp or dealer's money. Hence, Jason Velveeta is not really a very good pimp.

As cheeses go, Velveeta is fake, soft and easily melted. "Jason" is a quintessentially middle-class white first name. Velveeta is also associated with middle-class white culture in its most unhip and soul-free form. See, for example, this recent [http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s2i32975 spoof news story].

==Page 159==
'''O Cangaceiro'''
A Portuguese word rooted in "canga," meaning "yoke," that means "brigand" or "highwayman." In Brazilian Portuguese it carries the meaning "braggart."

==Page 160==
'''"Desafinado"''' 
A bossa nova-style song written by Jobim. Stan Getz's version was a hit in 1962. The title translates as "off key" or "out of tune."

'''a curious sort of hippie chick approached the piano, her hair short and tightly permed''' 
Remove that "hippie," and the picture is remarkably like that of Janet Leigh in the mid-'60s movie version of ''An American Dream'' (1966). Leigh doesn't sing Schwartz & Dietz, but the character's bossa-nova style performance of a Johnny Mandel song is much like the music described here.

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TXddcs68u8 Watch]

'''Little Black Dress''' 
Simply cut, often short, cocktail dress [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_black_dress]. It's worth noting that the dress our singer is wearing is described as being from the 1950s, since the most famous, perhaps, little black dress of them all was worn by Audrey Hepburn in the later 1961 film [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakfast_at_Tiffany%27s_%28film%29 Breakfast at Tiffany's.]

'''I can sure relate to that lyric, man''' 
And here are the lyrics to "It Never Entered My Mind":
:I don't care if there's powder on my nose. 
:I don't care if my hairdo is in place. 
:I've lost the very meaning of repose. 
:I never put a mudpack on my face. 
:Oh, who'd have thought 
:that I'd walk in the daze now? 
:I never go to shows at night, 
:but just to matinees now. 
:I see the show 
:and home I go. 

:Once I laughed when I heard you saying 
:that I'd be playing solitaire, 
:uneasy in my easy chair. 
:It never entered my mind. 

:Once you told me I was mistaken, 
:that I'd awaken with the sun 
:and order orange juice for one. 
:It never entered my mind. 

:You have what I lack myself 
:and now I even have to scratch my back myself. 

:Once you warned me that if you scorned me 
:I'd sing the maiden's prayer again 
:and wish that you where there again 
:to get into my hair again. 
:It never entered my mind. 

Introduced in the show ''Higher and Higher'' in 1940, where it was performed by Shirley Ross. Famous renditions of the song in the '50s and '60s that may have inspired our singer in the Little Black Dress were done by Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis (as a jazz instrumental), and Leontyne Price (!).

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrgDbS9aHF4 Listen] and let Peggy Lee break your heart, too.

'''Dietz & Schwartz's 'Alone Together'''' 
These lyrics are also relevant to the scene, and to ''Inherent Vice'' as a whole:

:Alone together, beyond the crowd, 
:Above the world, we're not too proud 
:To cling together, We're strong 
:As long as we're together. 

:Alone together, the blinding rain 
:The starless night, were not in vain; 
:For we're together, and what is there 
:To fear together. 

:Our love is as deep as the sea, 
:Our love is as great as a love can be, 
:And we can weather the great unknown, 
:If we're alone together. 

Introduced in the revue ''Flying Colors'' (1932), the song has had famous interpreters, including Ella Fitzgerald and Ray Charles. There's another important D&S allusion in an upcoming chapter, folks. TP a connoisseur too of Broadway show tunes--who knew?

'''"...Doc bought himself and Coy cachaca with beer chasers."''' 
Cachaca is a rum-like beverage made from bagasse, the crushed fiber of sugar cane that is left over when sugar is made. It is a national symbol of Brazil and the basic ingredient of caipirinha.

==Page 162==

'''Samba do Avião''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK-k0SstIJQ Song] by Antonio Jobim. Title translates into "Song of the Jet." [http://lyrics.wikia.com/Tony_Bennett:Samba_Do_Avi%C3%A3o Lyrics,] in English translation, are a tribute to Rio de Janeiro as seen from a returning airplane. Substitute Los Angeles for Rio and the connection with certain parts of Inherent Vice become even more obvious.

'''then sat through the dawn''' 
Morning, the thirteenth day of the narrative, Sunday, April 5, 1970.

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==Page 19==
'''OPPOS''' 
Real estate acronym meaning "Over-Priced Piece Of Shit"

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

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

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

==Page 21==
'''bigger inside than out''' 
This trope of spaces with interiors larger than they appear from the outside is also present in Pynchon's 1997 novel [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Mason & Dixon'']:

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

Also see [http://bleedingedge.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_24#Page_258 Page 258] of ''Bleeding Edge''.

Anyone else reminded of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TARDIS TARDIS]?

==Page 22==
'''caused Doc about then to swoon abruptly and lose an unknown amount of his day.''' 
It's still Wednesday, March 25, 1970, the second day of the narrative.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[[File:68Elcamino.jpg|thumb|150px|right|1968 Chevrolet El Camino]]
'''1968 El Camino''' 
The Chevrolet El Camino is a coupe utility vehicle produced by the Chevrolet division of General Motors from 1959 through 1960, with production resuming in 1964 and continuing through 1987. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_El_Camino Wikipedia]
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==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.

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

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

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

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

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

See also M&D, p. 41.

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

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

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

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

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

==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, which also recalls Rachel Owlglass's intimate relationship with her MG in [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1 Chapter 1 of ''V.''].

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 34==
'''At the office next day''' 
Thursday, March 26, 1970, the third day of the narrative.

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

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

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

==Page 35==
'''"You're apologizing, Bigfoot?" "Ever known me to?"''' 
Bigfoot, movie enthusiast and collector of Wild West paraphernalia, would almost certainly be familiar with She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), where John Wayne's character says (repeatedly), "Never apologize, it's a sign of weakness."

==Page 36==

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

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

==Page 37==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'''Kismet'''
means Fate or fortune, but note also the other meanings below connected both to the history of the Vegas strip detailed here and to a certain earlier novel by Mr. Pynchon with "Lot" in the title: 
''Turkish, from Persian qismat; from Arabic qisma, lot; from qasama, to divide.''

'''"page right out of history," as the Flintstones might say''' 
''The Flintstones'' is animated American television sitcom that ran from 1960 to 1966 on ABC, produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. ''The Flintstones'' theme begins:

:Flintstones. Meet the Flintstones. 
:They're the modern stone age family. 
:From the town of Bedrock, 
:They're a page right out of history.

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s13X66BFd8 Have a listen on YouTube...]

==Page 237==
'''Qiana minidress''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qiana Qiana]: silky nylon made by DuPont that swept the fashion world in the 1970s. Fake-silk shiny material often used in bold patterns and, yes, disco-clothing/costumes. Difficult to tailor, apparently. Trust me, you'll know it when you see it.

==Page 238==
'''lines of latitude''' 
Impossible not to think of ''Mason & Dixon'' here.

'''bespoke suit''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bespoke Haute couture for men.] This could be a very expensive suit considering it was custom made for the individual, starting from hand-picked fabrics, and "created without use of a pre-existing pattern." Sign of a man who's really into suits, in other words.

'''Aimee Semple McPherson-type''' 
Evangelist, very popular in the 20's and 30's, founder of the Foursquare Church.
She's mentioned here because she was allegedly abducted, only to escape several days later and stumble out of the Arizona desert. But her stories had some holes and raised a lot of questions. Read more [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aimee_Semple_Mcpherson#Reported_abduction here].

==Page 239==
'''gumsandal''' 
Obvious joke on a hippie, sandal wearing, private investigator, but also, just perhaps, with a hint of Dashiel Hammett's infamous [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gunsel 'gunsel.'] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjWKPdDk0_U Listen] to Pynchon himself say 'gumsandal' on the video promo to Inherent Vice.

'''Marty Robbins'd call ''foul evil deeds.''''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marty_Robbins Marty Robbins'] hit country song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bwoGbpYXRw El Paso.]

==Page 244==
'''Casey Kasem's Saturday-morning Shaggy voice''' 
That's right. Legendary radio host [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_Kasem Casey Kasem] was the voice of Shaggy on the original ''Scooby Doo'' cartoon, which premiered in 1969. How many Scooby Doo references does this make?

==Page 245==
'''settled in in front of ''All-Nite Freaky Features''''' 
Late night, Wednesday, April 29, 1970.

==Page 246==
'''awakening next morning to Henry Kissinger''' 
Morning, Thursday, April 30, 1970

==Page 247==
'''tiptoein through no tulips''' 
Another reference to Tiny Tim.

==Page 248==
'''et cetera et cetera, and so forth as the King of Siam always sez''' 
In the 1956 film ''The King and I'', Yul Brynner, who played King Mongkut of Siam, repeatedly used the phrase "et cetera, et cetera, et cetera" to characterize the King as wanting to impress with his great knowledge of many things and his importance in not having to detail them. This was based upon the usage in the book ''Anna and the King of Siam'' which related the real king's playful interest in numerous things, with the phrase, "&c, &c" (used often by Pynchon).

'''Evening came, taking everybody by surprise.''' 
Evening, Thursday, April 30,1970.

==Page 249==
'''and in first light got to the turnoff''' 
Dawn, Friday, May 1, 1970.

==Page 250==

'''Romex''' 
According to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romex Wikipedia:] A trademarked brand of power cable, often used in a generic sense to refer to any non-metallic sheathed electrical cable.

'''Riggs Warbling with a couple weeks' start on a beard''' 
I'm hoping that this will help to connect the timelines of the first and second halves of the book.

==Page 251==
'''more space, judging from the outside, than there could possibly be in here.''' 
Remember the [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_35:_349-361#Page_354 house and the carriage from ''Mason & Dixon'']?

==Page 253==
'''They left him watching ''Let's Make a Deal'''''
 Midday, Friday, May 1, 1970.

==Page 254==
'''Ya gonna eat dis toikey!''' 
As [http://www.theauteurs.com/notebook/posts/983 Glenn Kenny] points out, the actual quote is "Cawve da toikey." Was it Pynchon's intention to misquote or a lapse in memory?

'''...Toobfreex at play in the video universe...stubbing it out for good.''' 
Possible statement of the Inherent Vice that closed "this little parenthesis of light", the Psychedelic Sixties?

'''the tropic isle''' 
"Gilligan's Island" leads, of course, this list of '50s & '60s TV shows

'''the Long Branch Saloon''' 
"Miss Kitty" Russell's saloon in Dodge City, KS in the long-running "Gunsmoke" [http://www.jamesarness.com/gunsmoke.htm more info here]

'''the Starship Enterprise''' 
Captain Kirk's ship on "Star Trek", the cancellation of which sparks protests earlier in the book

'''Hawaiian crime fantasies''' 
"Hawaii Five-0"
[http://www.mjq.net/fiveo/ more info here]

'''cute kids...with invisible audiences''' 
Is there anything more more of a "low level bummer" about television than the laugh track? In later decades, it was sometimes replaced by a live audience, and more recently by comedies with neither.
[http://www.tvparty.com/laugh.html for a defense of the "laugh track"]

'''a slave girl in a bottle''' 
Barbara Eden as Jeannie in "I Dream of Jeannie"
[http://www.idreamofjeannie.com/ coming 11/09 on DVD]

'''and Arnold the Pig''' 
Fred and Doris Zifel's pig on "Green Acres"
[http://www.maggiore.net/greenacres/ more info here]

==Page 255==

'''...how a certain hand might reach terribly out of the darkness and reclaim the time, easy as taking a joint from a doper and stubbing it out for good.''' 
Can't help thinking about the great [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_and_Loathing_in_Las_Vegas#The_.22wave_speech.22 'wave speech'] from Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas." Worth reading/watching/listening to (pick your format) alongside of "Inherent Vice." [http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=23451 Video clip] of Depp reading from it.

'''Doc didn't fall asleep until close to dawn'''
 Early morning, Saturday, May 2, 1970.

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

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

==Page 352==
'''''Hawaii Five-o'' was still on.'''
 Late evening Thursday, May 7, 1970. Ordinarily, the show was on Wednesdays from 10 to 11 P.M.
==Page 353==
'''that Ada whom I have never trusted since A Summer Place''' 
Not exactly the most meaningful reference, but the same actress - Constance Ford - played both Ada in the soap opera Another World and the unsympathetic character Helen in the movie A Summer Place.

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

==Page 354==
'''Next morning the fire bell went off,''' 
Morning, Friday, May 8, 1970.

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

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

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

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

==Page 363==

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

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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. This means that the novel ends on Pynchon's 33rd birthday, a nice way to underscore the semi-autobiographical nature of ''Inherent Vice''. Furthermore, this situates the ending of the novel just four days after the Kent State Massacre on May 4, 1970 - yet another way of telling us that the beach is being paved over and that the sixties have come to an end.

==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.

'''Pizza Man''' 
[http://www.pizzamandelivers.com/ Pizza Man]--He Delivers - since 1964

==Page 367==
'''Doc got on the Santa Monica Freeway''' 
Doc Sportello isn't the only character taking a drive rather than turning in tonight. On May 8, 1970, Richard Nixon went public in a news conference about the war spreading to Cambodia. That night, at 4 A.M., the President called Manolo Sanchez, his valet, and asked him if he had ever seen the Lincoln Memorial at night. So, off went the (possibly a little unhinged) President, his valet, and a too-small Secret Service contingent. Nixon had an impromptu "rap session" with 8 protesters at the Memorial. As 8 turned to 30 and then 50 protesters, the Secret Service became "petrified". After about an hour, President Nixon took his valet on a tour of the Capitol. You can read about it (and get the text of Nixon's press conference)

[http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=2496 here in the italics at the bottom of the page.] 

Nixon's presence in this scene is even stronger if you consider Doc's drive to be a wormhole into the conclusion of [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow'']. In IV, '''Doc got on the Santa Monica Freeway, and about the time he was making the transition to the San Diego southbound.''' In GR, Richard M. Zhlubb (according to Steven Weisenburger in ''A Gravity's Rainbow Companion'', Richard Nixon "circa 1970") takes a reporter on a drive '''on the freeways. Near the interchange of the San Diego and the Santa Monica''' (GR p. 755). 
That makes two Nixons, one real and one fictional, out for a drive with Doc.

==Page 368==
'''Fapardokly's triple-tongued highway classic "Super Market," ordinarily ideal for driving through L.A.''' 
Better drive quick because the song is only a little over two minutes long. Listen to a clip at [http://www.amazon.com/Fapardokly/dp/B000003GYO/ Amazon] from Fapardokly's self-titled album. More info on the band leader at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fapardokly Wikipedia.] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonguing Triple-tonging] is a wind instrument technique used for playing rapid notes. I have no idea of the trumpet on the record is actually employing triple-tongue articulation, though the playing is pretty fast.

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'''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...]

Though Doc Sportello shares some qualities with Zoyd Wheeler of ''Vineland'', contrast Doc's reaction to driving in fog with Zoyd's, when Zoyd and other members of the "Corvairs" "surfadelic" band "play motorhead valley roulette," speeding into patches of ground fog hoping that "the white passage held no other vehicles, no curves, no construction, only smooth, level, empty roadway to an indefinite distance--a motorhead variation on a surfer's dream" (37).

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

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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. This means that the novel ends on Pynchon's 33rd birthday, a nice way to underscore the semi-autobiographical nature of ''Inherent Vice''. Furthermore, this situates the ending of the novel just four days after the Kent State Massacre on May 4, 1970 - yet another way of telling us that the beach is being paved over and that the sixties have come to an end.

==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.

'''Pizza Man''' 
[http://www.pizzamandelivers.com/ Pizza Man]--He Delivers - since 1964

==Page 367==
'''Doc got on the Santa Monica Freeway''' 
Doc Sportello isn't the only character taking a drive rather than turning in tonight. On May 8, 1970, Richard Nixon went public in a news conference about the war spreading to Cambodia. That night, at 4 A.M., the President called Manolo Sanchez, his valet, and asked him if he had ever seen the Lincoln Memorial at night. So, off went the (possibly a little unhinged) President, his valet, and a too-small Secret Service contingent. Nixon had an impromptu "rap session" with 8 protesters at the Memorial. As 8 turned to 30 and then 50 protesters, the Secret Service became "petrified". After about an hour, President Nixon took his valet on a tour of the Capitol. You can read about it (and get the text of Nixon's press conference)

[http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=2496 here in the italics at the bottom of the page.] 

Nixon's presence in this scene is even stronger if you consider Doc's drive to be a wormhole into the conclusion of [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow'']. In IV, '''Doc got on the Santa Monica Freeway, and about the time he was making the transition to the San Diego southbound.''' In GR, Richard M. Zhlubb (according to Steven Weisenburger in ''A Gravity's Rainbow Companion'', Richard Nixon "circa 1970") takes a reporter on a drive '''on the freeways. Near the interchange of the San Diego and the Santa Monica''' (GR p. 755). 
That makes two Nixons, one real and one fictional, out for a drive with Doc.

==Page 368==
'''Fapardokly's triple-tongued highway classic "Super Market," ordinarily ideal for driving through L.A.''' 
Better drive quick because the song is only a little over two minutes long. Listen to a clip at [http://www.amazon.com/Fapardokly/dp/B000003GYO/ Amazon.]

just load your mind and leave your luggage, come along with me.
==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...]

Though Doc Sportello shares some qualities with Zoyd Wheeler of ''Vineland'', contrast Doc's reaction to driving in fog with Zoyd's, when Zoyd and other members of the "Corvairs" "surfadelic" band "play motorhead valley roulette," speeding into patches of ground fog hoping that "the white passage held no other vehicles, no curves, no construction, only smooth, level, empty roadway to an indefinite distance--a motorhead variation on a surfer's dream" (37).

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

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==Page 315==
'''still another day of classic day of California sunshine''' 
Back into real calendar time, morning, Tuesday, May 5, 1970.

'''bindlestiffs''' 
Pynchon may just be using the word in with its basic literal meaning (hoboes), but it is also the name ("Bindlestiffs of the Blue A.C.") of a "club of ascensionaries from Oregon," referred to in Against the Day at page 18 and again at page 1083.

==Page 316==
'''Carl Yastrzemski''' 
Carl Yastrzemski played for the Boston Red Sox from 1961-1983, and was at the peak of his career between 1967 and 1970, when he was among the most formidable hitters in professional baseball. Like Pynchon, he grew up on Long Island. He was generally admired as a hard-working, unpretentious player.

==Page 318==
'''Mike Curb''' 
In addition to contributing the musical score for The Big Bounce and other movies, Mike Curb was the leader of The Mike Curb Congregation, a popular music group with a wholesome, all-American image. The group often appeared on the Glen Campbell Show. He was also a record-company executive and, later, a Republican politician who was elected Lieutenant Governor of California in the late '70s.

'''The Big Bounce''' 
Is a film adaptation of an Elmore Leonard novel. The score is bouncy and peppy, and entirely out-of-place in the movie, and Doc's opinion regarding it is likely shared by many, if not most, viewers.

==Page 319==
'''he woke up, mercifully not too many hours later''' 
Afternoon, Tuesday, May 5, 1970.

==Page 322==
'''your hour is at hand''' 
In [http://bible.cc/matthew/26-45.htm Matthew 26:45], Jesus wakes up his disciples and warns them that the "hour is at hand" (i.e., Jesus is about to be arrested).

'''dropped it inside the forms for a concrete support column about to be poured.''' 
The fate of Adrian's victim bears a resemblance to some of the theories about the 1975 disappearance and presumed murder of Jimmy Hoffa and disposal of his body.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Hoffa Jimmy Hoffa]

==Page 326==
'''Dagwood and Mr. Dithers, Bugs and Yosemite Sam, Popeye and Bluto''' 
These are all pairs of cartoon characters who are in conflict.
:Dagwood butts heads with his controlling boss Mr. Dithers in the comic strip [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(comic_strip) Blondie].
:Bugs often has to hide from his nemesis Yosemite Sam in the TV cartoon [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugs_bunny Bugs Bunny].
:Popeye and the brute Bluto fight for the affection of Olive Oyl in the cartoon [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popeye Popeye].

==Page 327==
'''Some late light off the ocean''' 
Evening, Tuesday May 5, 1970.

==Page 328==
[[File:1965Impala.jpg|thumb|right|1965 Chevrolet Impala, photo by [http://www.flickr.com/photos/braintoad/2687568205/ The Brain Toad / Creative Commons]]]
''''65 Impala'''
 

==Page 329==
[[File:59CadillacHearse.jpg|thumb|right|[http://www.tristatechapter.com/meet.htm photo] courtesy Mark & Debbie Teague]]
''''59 Cadillac hearse'''

'''The sun was just down'''
Sunset, Tuesday, May 5, 1970.

==Page 332==
'''Herb Alpert arrangement of "Yummy Yummy Yummy"''' 
Thankfully probably a fictional song. Anyone been able to track down a recording? [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herb_alpert Herb Alpert.] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yummy_Yummy_Yummy "Yummy Yummy Yummy"] is [http://www.last.fm/music/The+Residents/_/Hitler+Was+A+Vegetarian covered,] starting at 5:24, of the lengthy "Hitler was a Vegetarian" from the Residents' satirical pop album [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Reich_%27n_Roll The Third Reich 'n Roll.] Not to be missed if you're looking for something to cleanse your pallet if you feel like you've listened to just too many of the songs name-checked in the novel, especially since a few of them get worked by the Residents. (By the way, it's part of the soundtrack of [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0304820/ Journey into the Mind of P.] Pynchon and the Residents can go well together.) Finally, forgive me, for the sake of completeness, the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG1SVKipKZE original version.]

==Page 338==
[[File:442 Olds.jpg|thumb|right|1969 442 Olds - Photo by [http://www.flickr.com/photos/dstone7y/1121708840/ dstone7y /Creative Commons]]]
'''442 Olds'''

'''a reasonably dark street''' 
Evening, Tuesday, May 5, 1970.

==Page 339==
'''The bars hadn't closed yet''' 
Late night, Tuesday, May 5, 1970.

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==Page 315==
'''still another day of classic day of California sunshine''' 
Back into real calendar time, morning, Tuesday, May 5, 1970.

'''bindlestiffs''' 
Pynchon may just be using the word in with its basic literal meaning (hoboes), but it is also the name ("Bindlestiffs of the Blue A.C.") of a "club of ascensionaries from Oregon," referred to in Against the Day at page 18 and again at page 1083.

==Page 316==
'''Carl Yastrzemski''' 
Carl Yastrzemski played for the Boston Red Sox from 1961-1983, and was at the peak of his career between 1967 and 1970, when he was among the most formidable hitters in professional baseball. Like Pynchon, he grew up on Long Island. He was generally admired as a hard-working, unpretentious player.

==Page 318==
'''Mike Curb''' 
In addition to contributing the musical score for The Big Bounce and other movies, Mike Curb was the leader of The Mike Curb Congregation, a popular music group with a wholesome, all-American image. The group often appeared on the Glen Campbell Show. He was also a record-company executive and, later, a Republican politician who was elected Lieutenant Governor of California in the late '70s.

'''The Big Bounce''' 
Is a film adaptation of an Elmore Leonard novel. The score is bouncy and peppy, and entirely out-of-place in the movie, and Doc's opinion regarding it is likely shared by many, if not most, viewers.

==Page 319==
'''he woke up, mercifully not too many hours later''' 
Afternoon, Tuesday, May 5, 1970.

==Page 322==
'''your hour is at hand''' 
In [http://bible.cc/matthew/26-45.htm Matthew 26:45], Jesus wakes up his disciples and warns them that the "hour is at hand" (i.e., Jesus is about to be arrested).

'''dropped it inside the forms for a concrete support column about to be poured.''' 
The fate of Adrian's victim bears a resemblance to some of the theories about the 1975 disappearance and presumed murder of Jimmy Hoffa and disposal of his body.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Hoffa Jimmy Hoffa]

==Page 326==
'''Dagwood and Mr. Dithers, Bugs and Yosemite Sam, Popeye and Bluto''' 
These are all pairs of cartoon characters who are in conflict.
:Dagwood butts heads with his controlling boss Mr. Dithers in the comic strip [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie_(comic_strip) Blondie].
:Bugs often has to hide from his nemesis Yosemite Sam in the TV cartoon [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugs_bunny Bugs Bunny].
:Popeye and the brute Bluto fight for the affection of Olive Oyl in the cartoon [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popeye Popeye].

==Page 327==
'''Some late light off the ocean''' 
Evening, Tuesday May 5, 1970.

==Page 328==
[[File:1965Impala.jpg|thumb|right|1965 Chevrolet Impala, photo by [http://www.flickr.com/photos/braintoad/2687568205/ The Brain Toad / Creative Commons]]]
''''65 Impala'''
 

==Page 329==
[[File:59CadillacHearse.jpg|thumb|right|[http://www.tristatechapter.com/meet.htm photo] courtesy Mark & Debbie Teague]]
''''59 Cadillac hearse'''

'''The sun was just down'''
Sunset, Tuesday, May 5, 1970.

==Page 332==
'''Herb Alpert arrangement of "Yummy Yummy Yummy"''' 
Thankfully probably a fictional song. Anyone been able to track down a recording? [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herb_alpert Herb Alpert.] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yummy_Yummy_Yummy "Yummy Yummy Yummy"] which is [http://www.last.fm/music/The+Residents/_/Hitler+Was+A+Vegetarian covered] starting at 5:24 of the lengthy "Hitler was a Vegetarian" from the Residents' satirical pop album [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Reich_%27n_Roll The Third Reich and Roll.] Not to be missed if you're looking for something to cleanse your pallet after listening to too many of the songs name-checked in the novel since a few of them get worked by the Residents. (Also, just for the record, it's part of the soundtrack of [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0304820/ Journey into the Mind of P.] Pynchon and the Residents can go well together.) Finally, forgive me, for the sake of completeness, the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG1SVKipKZE original version.]

==Page 338==
[[File:442 Olds.jpg|thumb|right|1969 442 Olds - Photo by [http://www.flickr.com/photos/dstone7y/1121708840/ dstone7y /Creative Commons]]]
'''442 Olds'''

'''a reasonably dark street''' 
Evening, Tuesday, May 5, 1970.

==Page 339==
'''The bars hadn't closed yet''' 
Late night, Tuesday, May 5, 1970.

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==Page 297==
'''Hermosa . . . Lighthouse''' 
The Lighthouse is/was a famous jazz club, especially in the 1950s. The bassist Howard Rumsey led the house band [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:jjfpxqygld6e~T1 The Lighthouse All-Stars].

==Page 298==
[[File:1956 DeSoto.jpg|thumb|200px|right|1956 De Soto Firedome [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeSoto_(automobile) Wikipedia]]]
'''1956 DeSoto'''
1956 DeSoto Firedome driven by Scottie Ferguson (James Stewart) in the 1958 Alfred Hitchcock classic ''Vertigo''.
 

[[File:Cobra 289.jpg|thumb|200px|right|1964 Cobra 289. Photo from [http://www.flickr.com/photos/geoff_b/2301663863/ Geoff B / Creative Commons]
]]
'''Cobra 289'''
 

[[File: Morgan.jpg|thumb|200px|right|1963 Morgan.]]
'''Morgans from the showroom up in Westwood with hoods held down by leather straps''' 

==Page 299==
'''"Drac's a part of the band"''' 
Reference to the 1962 hit single "Monster Mash," recorded originally by Bobby "Boris" Pickett (1938-2007) and the Cryptkickers, and covered by the Beach Boys (1964) and by the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band on ''Tadpoles'' and in 1968 performed it on the British television series ''Do Not Adjust Your Set'' - ("Now everything's cool / Drac's a part of the band / and my monster mash is the hit of the land..."). [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHSCObJvT9M&feature=related Have a listen on YouTube...]

'''Interstellar Overdrive''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_Overdrive Psychedelic rock classic.] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2wud_RqEaM Youtube.] Possible joke here on 'overdrive' since the distance from the intersection of Pier Avenue and the Pacific Coast Highway to LAX is around six miles. Sure, the song is long, about ten minutes, but Doc would have to be speeding like crazy, which isn't mentioned, to make that mileage with time still left on the song. At any rate, significant distance and/or time are casually covered and I'm going with mysterious power of interstellar overdrive giving them a helping hand. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvO1b3f4DGs "Ooo-ooo woo-''oo,'' woo-ooo."]

'''Virbrasonic''' 
Possibly the [http://66.154.44.164/forum/showthread.php?p=4358272 Motorola unit] used to add reverb. [http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=59558 Little more info.] You be the judge if it looks so large as to take up half a trunk.

==Page 300==
'''tempt the hand of fate''' 
A line from "Tears on My Pillow," included in the [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Songs_mentioned_in_Inherent_Vice page] of songs mentioned in the book. The lyric, in context:

:"If we could start anew 
:I wouldn't hesitate 
:I'd gladly take you back 
:And tempt the hand of fate."

==Page 301==
'''reading Herbert Marcuse and Chairman Mao''' 
In other words, learning how to be a leftist, neo-Marxist Communist.
:[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong Mao Zedong], aka "Chairman Mao" led the Communist Party of China and was the leader of the People’s Republic of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976. 
:[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Marcuse Herbert Marcuse] was a philosopher, critical theorist, and member of the neo-Marxist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School Frankfurt School], which is known for its critique of capitalism. He was popular among student radicals in the 1960s.

==Page 303==
''' an enlarged photo of a gigantic monster wave at Makaha last winter with a tiny but instantly recognizable Greg Noll cradled in it like a faithful worshiper in the fist of God.''' 
Apparently there is no photo of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Noll Greg Noll] successfully riding what was then, December 1969, considered to be the biggest wave ever paddled into. There is, however, a painting made after the event [http://www.signaturesgallery.com/uploads/gallery/large.Makaha_print_10x10.jpg here] that looks similar to the one Pynchon described, but probably, I couldn't verify a date, made years after 1970. Noll would have been so easily recognized because he rode with a wider than normal stance, and in black-and-white stripped shorts, as seen in this famous [http://oceanearth.com/oeblog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/noll-at-pipeline.jpg surfing picture.] Oh, nice [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLkbkv8eiWk Youtube] clip about Noll riding Makaha that makes the event sound more than a little Pynchon-esque. Lot of info and links, I know, but this is a huge deal in surfing history.

==Page 310==
'''something about Jan gets a wig''' 
This accurately describes an episode of The Brady Bunch entitled "Will the Real Jan Brady Please Stand Up?" The episode first aired on January 15, 1971.

==Page 311==
''''You're too short for that gesture.'''' 
Line said by George Sanders in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_about_eve "All About Eve."]
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97-clM-NNZQ Youtube] clip, about 3:55 in, worth seeing to give the odd line some context.

==Page 314==
'''Courage, Camille''' 
The same line - set in type the same way, with "Courage" italicized - appears at page 345 of "Against the Day." The reference is discussed in the [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_336-357#Page_345 Against the Day wiki.]

'''Later they went outside''' 
As noted [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_16#Page_281 earlier],
Pynchon has inserted a day in between Monday, May 4, 1970 and Tuesday, May 5. This day runs from the middle of Chapter 16 to the the end of chapter 17, a total of 34 pages, making it the day with the most pages in the book.

The phrase used to introduce the inserted day - [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_16#Page_281 "next day was as they say another day] - echoes a phrase used [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#Page_13 earlier], thus connecting the day on which Doc learns the names of those responsible for the murder that occured on "another" day previously mentioned.

The events of this day are unusual, to say the least:

No reference to time of day is given. As a matter of fact, the one clock mentioned (in the District Attorney's office) is not working.

Doc is given most of the information needed to resolve the mysteries he is working on.

The women Doc encounters during this day act very unusually, in most cases bizarrely.

Finally, a dead President tries to give Doc some advice on how to proceed.

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==Page 297==
'''Hermosa . . . Lighthouse''' 
The Lighthouse is/was a famous jazz club, especially in the 1950s. The bassist Howard Rumsey led the house band [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:jjfpxqygld6e~T1 The Lighthouse All-Stars].

==Page 298==
[[File:1956 DeSoto.jpg|thumb|200px|right|1956 De Soto Firedome [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeSoto_(automobile) Wikipedia]]]
'''1956 DeSoto'''
1956 DeSoto Firedome driven by Scottie Ferguson (James Stewart) in the 1958 Alfred Hitchcock classic ''Vertigo''.
 

[[File:Cobra 289.jpg|thumb|200px|right|1964 Cobra 289. Photo from [http://www.flickr.com/photos/geoff_b/2301663863/ Geoff B / Creative Commons]
]]
'''Cobra 289'''
 

[[File: Morgan.jpg|thumb|200px|right|1963 Morgan.]]
'''Morgans from the showroom up in Westwood with hoods held down by leather straps''' 

==Page 299==
'''"Drac's a part of the band"''' 
Reference to the 1962 hit single "Monster Mash," recorded originally by Bobby "Boris" Pickett (1938-2007) and the Cryptkickers, and covered by the Beach Boys (1964) and by the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band on ''Tadpoles'' and in 1968 performed it on the British television series ''Do Not Adjust Your Set'' - ("Now everything's cool / Drac's a part of the band / and my monster mash is the hit of the land..."). [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHSCObJvT9M&feature=related Have a listen on YouTube...]

'''Interstellar Overdrive''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_Overdrive Psychedelic rock classic.] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2wud_RqEaM Youtube.] Possible joke here on 'overdrive' since the distance from the intersection of Pier Avenue and the Pacific Coast Highway to LAX is around six miles. Sure, the song is long, about ten minutes, but Doc would have to be speeding like crazy, which isn't mentioned, to make that mileage with time still left on the song. At any rate, significant distance and/or time are casually covered and I'm going with mysterious power of interstellar overdrive giving them a helping hand. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvO1b3f4DGs "Ooo-ooo woo-''oo,'' woo-ooo."]

'''Virbrasonic''' 
Possibly the [http://66.154.44.164/forum/showthread.php?p=4358272 Motorola unit] used to add reverb. [http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=59558 Little more info.] You be the judge if it looks so large as to take up half a trunk.

==Page 300==
'''tempt the hand of fate''' 
A line from "Tears on My Pillow," included in the [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Songs_mentioned_in_Inherent_Vice page] of songs mentioned in the book. The lyric, in context:

:"If we could start anew 
:I wouldn't hesitate 
:I'd gladly take you back 
:And tempt the hand of fate."

==Page 301==
'''reading Herbert Marcuse and Chairman Mao''' 
In other words, learning how to be a leftist, neo-Marxist Communist.
:[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong Mao Zedong], aka "Chairman Mao" led the Communist Party of China and was the leader of the People’s Republic of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976. 
:[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Marcuse Herbert Marcuse] was a philosopher, critical theorist, and member of the neo-Marxist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School Frankfurt School], which is known for its critique of capitalism. He was popular among student radicals in the 1960s.

==Page 303==
''' an enlarged photo of a gigantic monster wave at Makaha last winter with a tiny but instantly recognizable Greg Noll cradled in it like a faithful worshiper in the fist of God.''' 
Apparently there is no photo of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Noll Greg Noll] successfully riding what was then, December 1969, considered to be the biggest wave ever paddled into. There is, however, a painting made after the event [http://www.signaturesgallery.com/uploads/gallery/large.Makaha_print_10x10.jpg here] that looks similar to the one Pynchon described. Noll would have been so easily recognized because he rode in black-and-white stripped shorts, as seen in this very famous [http://oceanearth.com/oeblog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/noll-at-pipeline.jpg surfing picture] and in a wider than normal stance. Oh, nice [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLkbkv8eiWk Youtube] clip about Noll riding Makaha that makes the event sound more than a little Pynchon-esque.

==Page 310==
'''something about Jan gets a wig''' 
This accurately describes an episode of The Brady Bunch entitled "Will the Real Jan Brady Please Stand Up?" The episode first aired on January 15, 1971.

==Page 311==
''''You're too short for that gesture.'''' 
Line said by George Sanders in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_about_eve "All About Eve."]
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97-clM-NNZQ Youtube] clip, about 3:55 in, worth seeing to give the odd line some context.

==Page 314==
'''Courage, Camille''' 
The same line - set in type the same way, with "Courage" italicized - appears at page 345 of "Against the Day." The reference is discussed in the [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_336-357#Page_345 Against the Day wiki.]

'''Later they went outside''' 
As noted [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_16#Page_281 earlier],
Pynchon has inserted a day in between Monday, May 4, 1970 and Tuesday, May 5. This day runs from the middle of Chapter 16 to the the end of chapter 17, a total of 34 pages, making it the day with the most pages in the book.

The phrase used to introduce the inserted day - [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_16#Page_281 "next day was as they say another day] - echoes a phrase used [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#Page_13 earlier], thus connecting the day on which Doc learns the names of those responsible for the murder that occured on "another" day previously mentioned.

The events of this day are unusual, to say the least:

No reference to time of day is given. As a matter of fact, the one clock mentioned (in the District Attorney's office) is not working.

Doc is given most of the information needed to resolve the mysteries he is working on.

The women Doc encounters during this day act very unusually, in most cases bizarrely.

Finally, a dead President tries to give Doc some advice on how to proceed.

{{Inherent Vice PbP}}

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==Page 297==
'''Hermosa . . . Lighthouse''' 
The Lighthouse is/was a famous jazz club, especially in the 1950s. The bassist Howard Rumsey led the house band [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:jjfpxqygld6e~T1 The Lighthouse All-Stars].

==Page 298==
[[File:1956 DeSoto.jpg|thumb|200px|right|1956 De Soto Firedome [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeSoto_(automobile) Wikipedia]]]
'''1956 DeSoto'''
1956 DeSoto Firedome driven by Scottie Ferguson (James Stewart) in the 1958 Alfred Hitchcock classic ''Vertigo''.
 

[[File:Cobra 289.jpg|thumb|200px|right|1964 Cobra 289. Photo from [http://www.flickr.com/photos/geoff_b/2301663863/ Geoff B / Creative Commons]
]]
'''Cobra 289'''
 

[[File: Morgan.jpg|thumb|200px|right|1963 Morgan.]]
'''Morgans from the showroom up in Westwood with hoods held down by leather straps''' 

==Page 299==
'''"Drac's a part of the band"''' 
Reference to the 1962 hit single "Monster Mash," recorded originally by Bobby "Boris" Pickett (1938-2007) and the Cryptkickers, and covered by the Beach Boys (1964) and by the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band on ''Tadpoles'' and in 1968 performed it on the British television series ''Do Not Adjust Your Set'' - ("Now everything's cool / Drac's a part of the band / and my monster mash is the hit of the land..."). [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHSCObJvT9M&feature=related Have a listen on YouTube...]

'''Interstellar Overdrive''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_Overdrive Psychedelic rock classic.] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2wud_RqEaM Youtube.] Possible joke here on 'overdrive' since the distance from the intersection of Pier Avenue and the Pacific Coast Highway to LAX is around six miles. Sure, the song is long, about ten minutes, but Doc would have to be speeding like crazy, which isn't mentioned, to make that mileage with time still left on the song. At any rate, significant distance and/or time are casually covered and I'm going with mysterious power of interstellar overdrive giving them a helping hand. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvO1b3f4DGs "Ooo-ooo woo-''oo,'' woo-ooo."]

'''Virbrasonic''' 
Possibly the [http://66.154.44.164/forum/showthread.php?p=4358272 Motorola unit] used to add reverb. [http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=59558 Little more info.] You be the judge if it looks so large as to take up half a trunk.

==Page 300==
'''tempt the hand of fate''' 
A line from "Tears on My Pillow," included in the [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Songs_mentioned_in_Inherent_Vice page] of songs mentioned in the book. The lyric, in context:

:"If we could start anew 
:I wouldn't hesitate 
:I'd gladly take you back 
:And tempt the hand of fate."

==Page 301==
'''reading Herbert Marcuse and Chairman Mao''' 
In other words, learning how to be a leftist, neo-Marxist Communist.
:[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong Mao Zedong], aka "Chairman Mao" led the Communist Party of China and was the leader of the People’s Republic of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976. 
:[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Marcuse Herbert Marcuse] was a philosopher, critical theorist, and member of the neo-Marxist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School Frankfurt School], which is known for its critique of capitalism. He was popular among student radicals in the 1960s.

==Page 303==
''' an enlarged photo of a gigantic monster wave at Makaha last winter with a tiny but instantly recognizable Greg Noll cradled in it like a faithful worshiper in the fist of God.''' 
Apparently there is no photo of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Noll Greg Noll] successfully riding what was then, December 1969, considered to be the biggest wave ever paddled into. There is, however, a painting made after the event [http://www.signaturesgallery.com/uploads/gallery/large.Makaha_print_10x10.jpg here] that looks similar to the one Pynchon described. Noll would have been so easily recognized because he rode in black-and-white stripped shorts, as seen in this very famous [http://oceanearth.com/oeblog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/noll-at-pipeline.jpg surfing picture.]Oh, nice [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLkbkv8eiWk Youtube] clip about Noll riding Makaha that makes the event sound more than a little Pynchon-esque.

==Page 310==
'''something about Jan gets a wig''' 
This accurately describes an episode of The Brady Bunch entitled "Will the Real Jan Brady Please Stand Up?" The episode first aired on January 15, 1971.

==Page 311==
''''You're too short for that gesture.'''' 
Line said by George Sanders in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_about_eve "All About Eve."]
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97-clM-NNZQ Youtube] clip, about 3:55 in, worth seeing to give the odd line some context.

==Page 314==
'''Courage, Camille''' 
The same line - set in type the same way, with "Courage" italicized - appears at page 345 of "Against the Day." The reference is discussed in the [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_336-357#Page_345 Against the Day wiki.]

'''Later they went outside''' 
As noted [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_16#Page_281 earlier],
Pynchon has inserted a day in between Monday, May 4, 1970 and Tuesday, May 5. This day runs from the middle of Chapter 16 to the the end of chapter 17, a total of 34 pages, making it the day with the most pages in the book.

The phrase used to introduce the inserted day - [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_16#Page_281 "next day was as they say another day] - echoes a phrase used [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#Page_13 earlier], thus connecting the day on which Doc learns the names of those responsible for the murder that occured on "another" day previously mentioned.

The events of this day are unusual, to say the least:

No reference to time of day is given. As a matter of fact, the one clock mentioned (in the District Attorney's office) is not working.

Doc is given most of the information needed to resolve the mysteries he is working on.

The women Doc encounters during this day act very unusually, in most cases bizarrely.

Finally, a dead President tries to give Doc some advice on how to proceed.

{{Inherent Vice PbP}}

Chapter 17

2009-10-08T18:35:13Z

Froberger:

{{Inherent Vice PbP Text}}

==Page 297==
'''Hermosa . . . Lighthouse''' 
The Lighthouse is/was a famous jazz club, especially in the 1950s. The bassist Howard Rumsey led the house band [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:jjfpxqygld6e~T1 The Lighthouse All-Stars].

==Page 298==
[[File:1956 DeSoto.jpg|thumb|200px|right|1956 De Soto Firedome [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeSoto_(automobile) Wikipedia]]]
'''1956 DeSoto'''
1956 DeSoto Firedome driven by Scottie Ferguson (James Stewart) in the 1958 Alfred Hitchcock classic ''Vertigo''.
 

[[File:Cobra 289.jpg|thumb|200px|right|1964 Cobra 289. Photo from [http://www.flickr.com/photos/geoff_b/2301663863/ Geoff B / Creative Commons]
]]
'''Cobra 289'''
 

[[File: Morgan.jpg|thumb|200px|right|1963 Morgan.]]
'''Morgans from the showroom up in Westwood with hoods held down by leather straps''' 

==Page 299==
'''"Drac's a part of the band"''' 
Reference to the 1962 hit single "Monster Mash," recorded originally by Bobby "Boris" Pickett (1938-2007) and the Cryptkickers, and covered by the Beach Boys (1964) and by the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band on ''Tadpoles'' and in 1968 performed it on the British television series ''Do Not Adjust Your Set'' - ("Now everything's cool / Drac's a part of the band / and my monster mash is the hit of the land..."). [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHSCObJvT9M&feature=related Have a listen on YouTube...]

'''Interstellar Overdrive''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_Overdrive Psychedelic rock classic.] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2wud_RqEaM Youtube.] Possible joke here on 'overdrive' since the distance from the intersection of Pier Avenue and the Pacific Coast Highway to LAX is around six miles. Sure, the song is long, about ten minutes, but Doc would have to be speeding like crazy, which isn't mentioned, to make that mileage with time still left on the song. At any rate, significant distance and/or time are casually covered and I'm going with mysterious power of interstellar overdrive giving them a helping hand. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvO1b3f4DGs "Ooo-ooo woo-''oo,'' woo-ooo."]

'''Virbrasonic''' 
Possibly the [http://66.154.44.164/forum/showthread.php?p=4358272 Motorola unit] used to add reverb. [http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=59558 Little more info.] You be the judge if it looks so large as to take up half a trunk.

==Page 300==
'''tempt the hand of fate''' 
A line from "Tears on My Pillow," included in the [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Songs_mentioned_in_Inherent_Vice page] of songs mentioned in the book. The lyric, in context:

:"If we could start anew 
:I wouldn't hesitate 
:I'd gladly take you back 
:And tempt the hand of fate."

==Page 301==
'''reading Herbert Marcuse and Chairman Mao''' 
In other words, learning how to be a leftist, neo-Marxist Communist.
:[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong Mao Zedong], aka "Chairman Mao" led the Communist Party of China and was the leader of the People’s Republic of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976. 
:[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Marcuse Herbert Marcuse] was a philosopher, critical theorist, and member of the neo-Marxist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School Frankfurt School], which is known for its critique of capitalism. He was popular among student radicals in the 1960s.

==Page 303==
''' an enlarged photo or q gigantic monster wave at Makaha last winter with a tiny but instantly recognizable Greg Noll cradled in it like a faithful worshiper in the fist of God.''' 
Apparently there is no photo of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Noll Greg Noll] successfully riding what was then considered to be the biggest wave ever paddled into. Noll would have been so easily recognized because he rode in black-and-white shorts, as seen in this very famous [http://oceanearth.com/oeblog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/noll-at-pipeline.jpg surfing picture.]

==Page 310==
'''something about Jan gets a wig''' 
This accurately describes an episode of The Brady Bunch entitled "Will the Real Jan Brady Please Stand Up?" The episode first aired on January 15, 1971.

==Page 311==
''''You're too short for that gesture.'''' 
Line said by George Sanders in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_about_eve "All About Eve."]
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97-clM-NNZQ Youtube] clip, about 3:55 in, worth seeing to give the odd line some context.

==Page 314==
'''Courage, Camille''' 
The same line - set in type the same way, with "Courage" italicized - appears at page 345 of "Against the Day." The reference is discussed in the [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_336-357#Page_345 Against the Day wiki.]

'''Later they went outside''' 
As noted [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_16#Page_281 earlier],
Pynchon has inserted a day in between Monday, May 4, 1970 and Tuesday, May 5. This day runs from the middle of Chapter 16 to the the end of chapter 17, a total of 34 pages, making it the day with the most pages in the book.

The phrase used to introduce the inserted day - [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_16#Page_281 "next day was as they say another day] - echoes a phrase used [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#Page_13 earlier], thus connecting the day on which Doc learns the names of those responsible for the murder that occured on "another" day previously mentioned.

The events of this day are unusual, to say the least:

No reference to time of day is given. As a matter of fact, the one clock mentioned (in the District Attorney's office) is not working.

Doc is given most of the information needed to resolve the mysteries he is working on.

The women Doc encounters during this day act very unusually, in most cases bizarrely.

Finally, a dead President tries to give Doc some advice on how to proceed.

{{Inherent Vice PbP}}

Chapter 17

2009-10-08T15:05:02Z

Froberger:

{{Inherent Vice PbP Text}}

==Page 297==
'''Hermosa . . . Lighthouse''' 
The Lighthouse is/was a famous jazz club, especially in the 1950s. The bassist Howard Rumsey led the house band [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:jjfpxqygld6e~T1 The Lighthouse All-Stars].

==Page 298==
[[File:1956 DeSoto.jpg|thumb|200px|right|1956 De Soto Firedome [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeSoto_(automobile) Wikipedia]]]
'''1956 DeSoto'''
1956 DeSoto Firedome driven by Scottie Ferguson (James Stewart) in the 1958 Alfred Hitchcock classic ''Vertigo''.
 

[[File:Cobra 289.jpg|thumb|200px|right|1964 Cobra 289. Photo from [http://www.flickr.com/photos/geoff_b/2301663863/ Geoff B / Creative Commons]
]]
'''Cobra 289'''
 

[[File: Morgan.jpg|thumb|200px|right|1963 Morgan.]]
'''Morgans from the showroom up in Westwood with hoods held down by leather straps''' 

==Page 299==
'''"Drac's a part of the band"''' 
Reference to the 1962 hit single "Monster Mash," recorded originally by Bobby "Boris" Pickett (1938-2007) and the Cryptkickers, and covered by the Beach Boys (1964) and by the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band on ''Tadpoles'' and in 1968 performed it on the British television series ''Do Not Adjust Your Set'' - ("Now everything's cool / Drac's a part of the band / and my monster mash is the hit of the land..."). [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHSCObJvT9M&feature=related Have a listen on YouTube...]

'''Interstellar Overdrive''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_Overdrive Psychedelic rock classic.] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2wud_RqEaM Youtube.] Possible joke here on 'overdrive' since the distance from the intersection of Pier Avenue and the Pacific Coast Highway to LAX is around six miles. Sure, the song is long, about ten minutes, but Doc would have to be speeding like crazy, which isn't mentioned, to make that mileage with time still left on the song. At any rate, significant distance and/or time are casually covered and I'm going with mysterious power of interstellar overdrive giving them a helping hand. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvO1b3f4DGs "Ooo-ooo woo-''oo,'' woo-ooo."]

'''Virbrasonic''' 
Possibly the [http://66.154.44.164/forum/showthread.php?p=4358272 Motorola unit] used to add reverb. [http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=59558 Little more info.] You be the judge if it looks so large as to take up half a trunk.

==Page 300==
'''tempt the hand of fate''' 
A line from "Tears on My Pillow," included in the [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Songs_mentioned_in_Inherent_Vice page] of songs mentioned in the book. The lyric, in context:

:"If we could start anew 
:I wouldn't hesitate 
:I'd gladly take you back 
:And tempt the hand of fate."

==Page 301==
'''reading Herbert Marcuse and Chairman Mao''' 
In other words, learning how to be a leftist, neo-Marxist Communist.
:[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong Mao Zedong], aka "Chairman Mao" led the Communist Party of China and was the leader of the People’s Republic of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976. 
:[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Marcuse Herbert Marcuse] was a philosopher, critical theorist, and member of the neo-Marxist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School Frankfurt School], which is known for its critique of capitalism. He was popular among student radicals in the 1960s.

==Page 310==
'''something about Jan gets a wig''' 
This accurately describes an episode of The Brady Bunch entitled "Will the Real Jan Brady Please Stand Up?" The episode first aired on January 15, 1971.

==Page 311==
''''You're too short for that gesture.'''' 
Line said by George Sanders in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_about_eve "All About Eve."]
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97-clM-NNZQ Youtube] clip, about 3:55 in, worth seeing to give the odd line some context.

==Page 314==
'''Courage, Camille''' 
The same line - set in type the same way, with "Courage" italicized - appears at page 345 of "Against the Day." The reference is discussed in the [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_336-357#Page_345 Against the Day wiki.]

'''Later they went outside''' 
As noted [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_16#Page_281 earlier],
Pynchon has inserted a day in between Monday, May 4, 1970 and Tuesday, May 5. This day runs from the middle of Chapter 16 to the the end of chapter 17, a total of 34 pages, making it the day with the most pages in the book.

The phrase used to introduce the inserted day - [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_16#Page_281 "next day was as they say another day] - echoes a phrase used [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#Page_13 earlier], thus connecting the day on which Doc learns the names of those responsible for the murder that occured on "another" day previously mentioned.

The events of this day are unusual, to say the least:

No reference to time of day is given. As a matter of fact, the one clock mentioned (in the District Attorney's office) is not working.

Doc is given most of the information needed to resolve the mysteries he is working on.

The women Doc encounters during this day act very unusually, in most cases bizarrely.

Finally, a dead President tries to give Doc some advice on how to proceed.

{{Inherent Vice PbP}}

Chapter 14

2009-10-08T01:40:37Z

Froberger: /* Page 255 */

{{Inherent Vice PbP Text}}

==Page 235==
'''Kismet'''
means Fate or fortune, but note also the other meanings below connected both to the history of the Vegas strip detailed here and to a certain earlier novel by Mr. Pynchon with "Lot" in the title: 
''Turkish, from Persian qismat; from Arabic qisma, lot; from qasama, to divide.''

'''"page right out of history," as the Flintstones might say''' 
''The Flintstones'' is animated American television sitcom that ran from 1960 to 1966 on ABC, produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. ''The Flintstones'' theme begins:

:Flintstones. Meet the Flintstones. 
:They're the modern stone age family. 
:From the town of Bedrock, 
:They're a page right out of history.

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s13X66BFd8 Have a listen on YouTube...]

==Page 237==
'''Qiana minidress''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qiana Qiana]: silky nylon made by DuPont that swept the fashion world in the 1970s. Fake-silk shiny material often used in bold patterns and, yes, disco-clothing/costumes. Difficult to tailor, apparently. Trust me, you'll know it when you see it.

==Page 238==
'''lines of latitude''' 
Impossible not to think of ''Mason & Dixon'' here.

'''bespoke suit''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bespoke Haute couture for men.] This could be a very expensive suit considering it was custom made for the individual, starting from hand-picked fabrics, and "created without use of a pre-existing pattern." Sign of a man who's really into suits, in other words.

'''Aimee Semple McPherson-type''' 
Evangelist, very popular in the 20's and 30's, founder of the Foursquare Church.
She's mentioned here because she was allegedly abducted, only to escape several days later and stumble out of the Arizona desert. But her stories had some holes and raised a lot of questions. Read more [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aimee_Semple_Mcpherson#Reported_abduction here].

==Page 239==
'''gumsandal''' 
Obvious joke on a hippie, sandal wearing, private investigator, but also, just perhaps, with a hint of Dashiel Hammett's infamous [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gunsel 'gunsel.'] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjWKPdDk0_U Listen] to Pynchon himself say 'gumsandal' on the video promo to Inherent Vice.

'''Marty Robbins'd call ''foul evil deeds.''''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marty_Robbins Marty Robbins'] hit country song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bwoGbpYXRw El Paso.]

==Page 244==
'''Casey Kasem's Saturday-morning Shaggy voice''' 
That's right. Legendary radio host [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_Kasem Casey Kasem] was the voice of Shaggy on the original ''Scooby Doo'' cartoon, which premiered in 1969. How many Scooby Doo references does this make?

==Page 245==
'''settled in in front of ''All-Nite Freaky Features''''' 
Late night, Wednesday, April 29, 1970.

==Page 246==
'''awakening next morning to Henry Kissinger''' 
Morning, Thursday, April 30, 1970

==Page 247==
'''tiptoein through no tulips''' 
Another reference to Tiny Tim.

==Page 248==
'''et cetera et cetera, and so forth as the King of Siam always sez''' 
In the 1956 film ''The King and I'', Yul Brynner, who played King Mongkut of Siam, repeatedly used the phrase "et cetera, et cetera, et cetera" to characterize the King as wanting to impress with his great knowledge of many things and his importance in not having to detail them. This was based upon the usage in the book ''Anna and the King of Siam'' which related the real king's playful interest in numerous things, with the phrase, "&c, &c" (used often by Pynchon).

'''Evening came, taking everybody by surprise.''' 
Evening, Thursday, April 30,1970.

==Page 249==
'''and in first light got to the turnoff''' 
Dawn, Friday, May 1, 1970.

==Page 250==
'''Riggs Warbling with a couple weeks' start on a beard''' 
I'm hoping that this will help to connect the timelines of the first and second halves of the book.

==Page 251==
'''more space, judging from the outside, than there could possibly be in here.''' 
Remember the [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_35:_349-361#Page_354 house and the carriage from ''Mason & Dixon'']?

==Page 253==
'''They left him watching ''Let's Make a Deal'''''
 Midday, Friday, May 1, 1970.

==Page 254==
'''Ya gonna eat dis toikey!''' 
As [http://www.theauteurs.com/notebook/posts/983 Glenn Kenny] points out, the actual quote is "Cawve da toikey." Was it Pynchon's intention to misquote or a lapse in memory?

'''...Toobfreex at play in the video universe...stubbing it out for good.''' 
Possible statement of the Inherent Vice that closed "this little parenthesis of light", the Psychedelic Sixties?

'''the tropic isle''' 
"Gilligan's Island" leads, of course, this list of '50s & '60s TV shows

'''the Long Branch Saloon''' 
"Miss Kitty" Russell's saloon in Dodge City, KS in the long-running "Gunsmoke" [http://www.jamesarness.com/gunsmoke.htm more info here]

'''the Starship Enterprise''' 
Captain Kirk's ship on "Star Trek", the cancellation of which sparks protests earlier in the book

'''Hawaiian crime fantasies''' 
"Hawaii Five-0"
[http://www.mjq.net/fiveo/ more info here]

'''cute kids...with invisible audiences''' 
Is there anything more more of a "low level bummer" about television than the laugh track? In later decades, it was sometimes replaced by a live audience, and more recently by comedies with neither.
[http://www.tvparty.com/laugh.html for a defense of the "laugh track"]

'''a slave girl in a bottle''' 
Barbara Eden as Jeannie in "I Dream of Jeannie"
[http://www.idreamofjeannie.com/ coming 11/09 on DVD]

'''and Arnold the Pig''' 
Fred and Doris Zifel's pig on "Green Acres"
[http://www.maggiore.net/greenacres/ more info here]

==Page 255==

'''...how a certain hand might reach terribly out of the darkness and reclaim the time, easy as taking a joint from a doper and stubbing it out for good.''' 
Can't help thinking about the great [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_and_Loathing_in_Las_Vegas#The_.22wave_speech.22 'wave speech'] from Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas." Worth reading/watching/listening to (pick your format) alongside of "Inherent Vice." [http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=23451 Video clip] of Depp reading from it.

'''Doc didn't fall asleep until close to dawn'''
 Early morning, Saturday, May 2, 1970.

{{Inherent Vice PbP}}

Chapter 14

2009-10-07T23:44:44Z

Froberger: /* Page 255 */

{{Inherent Vice PbP Text}}

==Page 235==
'''Kismet'''
means Fate or fortune, but note also the other meanings below connected both to the history of the Vegas strip detailed here and to a certain earlier novel by Mr. Pynchon with "Lot" in the title: 
''Turkish, from Persian qismat; from Arabic qisma, lot; from qasama, to divide.''

'''"page right out of history," as the Flintstones might say''' 
''The Flintstones'' is animated American television sitcom that ran from 1960 to 1966 on ABC, produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. ''The Flintstones'' theme begins:

:Flintstones. Meet the Flintstones. 
:They're the modern stone age family. 
:From the town of Bedrock, 
:They're a page right out of history.

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s13X66BFd8 Have a listen on YouTube...]

==Page 237==
'''Qiana minidress''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qiana Qiana]: silky nylon made by DuPont that swept the fashion world in the 1970s. Fake-silk shiny material often used in bold patterns and, yes, disco-clothing/costumes. Difficult to tailor, apparently. Trust me, you'll know it when you see it.

==Page 238==
'''lines of latitude''' 
Impossible not to think of ''Mason & Dixon'' here.

'''bespoke suit''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bespoke Haute couture for men.] This could be a very expensive suit considering it was custom made for the individual, starting from hand-picked fabrics, and "created without use of a pre-existing pattern." Sign of a man who's really into suits, in other words.

'''Aimee Semple McPherson-type''' 
Evangelist, very popular in the 20's and 30's, founder of the Foursquare Church.
She's mentioned here because she was allegedly abducted, only to escape several days later and stumble out of the Arizona desert. But her stories had some holes and raised a lot of questions. Read more [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aimee_Semple_Mcpherson#Reported_abduction here].

==Page 239==
'''gumsandal''' 
Obvious joke on a hippie, sandal wearing, private investigator, but also, just perhaps, with a hint of Dashiel Hammett's infamous [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gunsel 'gunsel.'] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjWKPdDk0_U Listen] to Pynchon himself say 'gumsandal' on the video promo to Inherent Vice.

'''Marty Robbins'd call ''foul evil deeds.''''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marty_Robbins Marty Robbins'] hit country song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bwoGbpYXRw El Paso.]

==Page 244==
'''Casey Kasem's Saturday-morning Shaggy voice''' 
That's right. Legendary radio host [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_Kasem Casey Kasem] was the voice of Shaggy on the original ''Scooby Doo'' cartoon, which premiered in 1969. How many Scooby Doo references does this make?

==Page 245==
'''settled in in front of ''All-Nite Freaky Features''''' 
Late night, Wednesday, April 29, 1970.

==Page 246==
'''awakening next morning to Henry Kissinger''' 
Morning, Thursday, April 30, 1970

==Page 247==
'''tiptoein through no tulips''' 
Another reference to Tiny Tim.

==Page 248==
'''et cetera et cetera, and so forth as the King of Siam always sez''' 
In the 1956 film ''The King and I'', Yul Brynner, who played King Mongkut of Siam, repeatedly used the phrase "et cetera, et cetera, et cetera" to characterize the King as wanting to impress with his great knowledge of many things and his importance in not having to detail them. This was based upon the usage in the book ''Anna and the King of Siam'' which related the real king's playful interest in numerous things, with the phrase, "&c, &c" (used often by Pynchon).

'''Evening came, taking everybody by surprise.''' 
Evening, Thursday, April 30,1970.

==Page 249==
'''and in first light got to the turnoff''' 
Dawn, Friday, May 1, 1970.

==Page 250==
'''Riggs Warbling with a couple weeks' start on a beard''' 
I'm hoping that this will help to connect the timelines of the first and second halves of the book.

==Page 251==
'''more space, judging from the outside, than there could possibly be in here.''' 
Remember the [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_35:_349-361#Page_354 house and the carriage from ''Mason & Dixon'']?

==Page 253==
'''They left him watching ''Let's Make a Deal'''''
 Midday, Friday, May 1, 1970.

==Page 254==
'''Ya gonna eat dis toikey!''' 
As [http://www.theauteurs.com/notebook/posts/983 Glenn Kenny] points out, the actual quote is "Cawve da toikey." Was it Pynchon's intention to misquote or a lapse in memory?

'''...Toobfreex at play in the video universe...stubbing it out for good.''' 
Possible statement of the Inherent Vice that closed "this little parenthesis of light", the Psychedelic Sixties?

'''the tropic isle''' 
"Gilligan's Island" leads, of course, this list of '50s & '60s TV shows

'''the Long Branch Saloon''' 
"Miss Kitty" Russell's saloon in Dodge City, KS in the long-running "Gunsmoke" [http://www.jamesarness.com/gunsmoke.htm more info here]

'''the Starship Enterprise''' 
Captain Kirk's ship on "Star Trek", the cancellation of which sparks protests earlier in the book

'''Hawaiian crime fantasies''' 
"Hawaii Five-0"
[http://www.mjq.net/fiveo/ more info here]

'''cute kids...with invisible audiences''' 
Is there anything more more of a "low level bummer" about television than the laugh track? In later decades, it was sometimes replaced by a live audience, and more recently by comedies with neither.
[http://www.tvparty.com/laugh.html for a defense of the "laugh track"]

'''a slave girl in a bottle''' 
Barbara Eden as Jeannie in "I Dream of Jeannie"
[http://www.idreamofjeannie.com/ coming 11/09 on DVD]

'''and Arnold the Pig''' 
Fred and Doris Zifel's pig on "Green Acres"
[http://www.maggiore.net/greenacres/ more info here]

==Page 255==

'''...how a certain hand might reach terribly out of the darkness and reclaim the time, easy as taking a joint from a doper and stubbing it out for good.''' 
Can't help thinking about the great [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_and_Loathing_in_Las_Vegas#The_.22wave_speech.22 'wave speech'] from Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas." Worth reading/watching/listening to (pick your format) alongside of "Inherent Vice," I think.

'''Doc didn't fall asleep until close to dawn'''
 Early morning, Saturday, May 2, 1970.

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==Page 275==
'''Rhus Frothingham''' 
"Rhus" is the formal name of the plant genus commonly referred to as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumac Sumac]. It includes various desirable plants, but also Poison Sumac and Poison Ivy. [[Plants of Inherent Vice|See: Plants of Inherent Vice]]

==Page 277==
'''indict a bean burrito''' 
An amusing local twist on the common adage, which virtually every lawyer probably learned in law school, that a prosecutor can get a grand jury to "indict a ham sandwich."

==Page 278==
'''Midnight, pitch dark . . . blind cannonball''' 
That's quite a metaphorical excursion!

==Page 280==
'''the playoffs, even though it was Eastern Division''' 
The fifth game of the NBA finals was played in New York Monday, May 4, 1970. The Knicks won 107-100 over the Lakers.

'''it was time for the eleven-o'clock news..."Give it a rest Bugliosi" 
11:00 P.M., Monday, May 4, 1970. Given that this is the day of the killings at Kent State, it seems odd that the late news would be taken up by the Manson case.

==Page 281==
'''A promo came on for the late movie'''
 Late night, Monday, May 4, 1970.

'''Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster''' 
Godzilla film released in the USA in 1965 with the name of the titular monster slightly altered from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghidorah,_the_Three-Headed_Monster Ghidorah] to Ghidrah. Later re-releases of the film have corrected the spelling.

'''Roman Holiday''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Holiday 1953 film] starring Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn. Believe it or not, the similarities of this film's ending, reporter saying goodbye to a princess he's romantically involved with at one of her public events, with "Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster" are so striking that a real connection seems plausible. Pynchon isn't the only one to have noticed the parallels: [http://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s2333ghid.html DVD Savant] and [http://dvd.ign.com/articles/795/795228p1.html IGN.]

'''Next day was as they say another day''' 
Oh, it's another day all right. Pynchon has inserted a day in between Monday, May 4, 1970 and Tuesday, May 5. This day continues until the end of chapter 17, a total of 34 pages, making it the day with the most pages in the book.

The phrase perhaps echoes "Tomorrow is another day," from [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#Page_18 page 18].

The events of this day are unusual, to say the least. See later annotation, for those who don't mind a [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_17#Page_314 spoiler].

==Page 283==
'''Lynette 'Squeaky' Fromme''' 
One of Charles Manson's devotees, not charged in the Tate murders, but later jailed for coming at President Gerald Ford with a loaded gun. Coincidentally, she was paroled after 30 years in jail, the very week Inherent Vice was released...

==Page 290==
'''El Huevoncito''' 
Someone with a better grasp of idiomatic Spanish can correct this, but:

"Huevon" is a vulgar slang insult, implying that that the subject is lazy and stupid. The "cito" is a dimunitive suffix. I suppose an English translation might be "little lazy asshole" or something along those lines.

==Page 294==
'''Thomas Jefferson''' 
Jefferson also makes a brief appearance on [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_39:_391-398#Page_395 page 395] of ''Mason & Dixon''. The transcription of TJ's language (like "traffick in Enslavement") echoes the faux-vérité 18th-century style of ''Mason and Dixon'' too.

'''the tree of liberty . . . ''' 
This quote is from a 1787 letter Jefferson wrote to W. S. Smith.

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==Page 297==
'''Hermosa . . . Lighthouse''' 
The Lighthouse is/was a famous jazz club, especially in the 1950s. The bassist Howard Rumsey led the house band [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:jjfpxqygld6e~T1 The Lighthouse All-Stars].

==Page 298==
[[File:1956 DeSoto.jpg|thumb|200px|right|1956 De Soto Firedome [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeSoto_(automobile) Wikipedia]]]
'''1956 DeSoto'''
1956 DeSoto Firedome driven by Scottie Ferguson (James Stewart) in the 1958 Alfred Hitchcock classic ''Vertigo''.
 

[[File:Cobra 289.jpg|thumb|200px|right|1964 Cobra 289. Photo from [http://www.flickr.com/photos/geoff_b/2301663863/ Geoff B / Creative Commons]
]]
'''Cobra 289'''
 

[[File: Morgan.jpg|thumb|200px|right|1963 Morgan.]]
'''Morgans from the showroom up in Westwood with hoods held down by leather straps''' 

==Page 299==
'''"Drac's a part of the band"''' 
Reference to the 1962 hit single "Monster Mash," recorded originally by Bobby "Boris" Pickett (1938-2007) and the Cryptkickers, and covered by the Beach Boys (1964) and by the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band on ''Tadpoles'' and in 1968 performed it on the British television series ''Do Not Adjust Your Set'' - ("Now everything's cool / Drac's a part of the band / and my monster mash is the hit of the land..."). [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHSCObJvT9M&feature=related Have a listen on YouTube...]

'''Interstellar Overdrive''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_Overdrive Psychedelic rock classic.] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2wud_RqEaM Youtube.] Possible joke here on 'overdrive' since the distance from the intersection of Pier Avenue and the Pacific Coast Highway to LAX is around six miles. Sure, the song is long, about ten minutes, but Doc would have to be speeding like crazy, which isn't mentioned, to make that mileage with time still left on the song. At any rate, significant distance and/or time are casually covered and I'm going with mysterious power of interstellar overdrive giving them a helping hand. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvO1b3f4DGs "Ooo-ooo woo-''oo,'' woo-ooo."]

'''Virbrasonic''' 
Possibly the [http://66.154.44.164/forum/showthread.php?p=4358272 Motorola unit] used to add reverb. [http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=59558 Little more info.] You be the judge if it looks so large as to take up half a trunk.

==Page 300==
'''tempt the hand of fate''' 
A line from "Tears on My Pillow," included in the [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Songs_mentioned_in_Inherent_Vice page] of songs mentioned in the book. The lyric, in context:

:"If we could start anew 
:I wouldn't hesitate 
:I'd gladly take you back 
:And tempt the hand of fate."

==Page 301==
'''reading Herbert Marcuse and Chairman Mao''' 
In other words, learning how to be a leftist, neo-Marxist Communist.
:[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong Mao Zedong], aka "Chairman Mao" led the Communist Party of China and was the leader of the People’s Republic of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976. 
:[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Marcuse Herbert Marcuse] was a philosopher, critical theorist, and member of the neo-Marxist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School Frankfurt School], which is known for its critique of capitalism. He was popular among student radicals in the 1960s.

==Page 310==
'''something about Jan gets a wig''' 
This accurately describes an episode of The Brady Bunch entitled "Will the Real Jan Brady Please Stand Up?" The episode first aired on January 15, 1971.

==Page 314==
'''Courage, Camille''' 
The same line - set in type the same way, with "Courage" italicized - appears at page 345 of "Against the Day." The reference is discussed in the [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_336-357#Page_345 Against the Day wiki.]

'''Later they went outside''' 
As noted [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_16#Page_281 earlier],
Pynchon has inserted a day in between Monday, May 4, 1970 and Tuesday, May 5. This day runs from the middle of Chapter 16 to the the end of chapter 17, a total of 34 pages, making it the day with the most pages in the book.

The phrase used to introduce the inserted day - [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_16#Page_281 "next day was as they say another day] - echoes a phrase used [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#Page_13 earlier], thus connecting the day on which Doc learns the names of those responsible for the murder that occured on "another" day previously mentioned.

The events of this day are unusual, to say the least:

No reference to time of day is given. As a matter of fact, the one clock mentioned (in the District Attorney's office) is not working.

Doc is given most of the information needed to resolve the mysteries he is working on.

The women Doc encounters during this day act very unusually, in most cases bizarrely.

Finally, a dead President tries to give Doc some advice on how to proceed.

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==Page 256==
'''Around nightfall Tito let Doc off''' 
Early evening, Saturday, May 2, 1970.

==Page 257==
'''Some college break or something.''' 
Saturday, May 2, 1970, six days after Easter. It's plausible that Spring Break could be going on.

'''Denis drifted off to watch Lawrence Welk.''' 
Evening, Saturday, May 2, 1970.

[[File:NormaZimmer.jpg|thumb|right|The cover of a 1969 album]]
'''Norma Zimmer''' 
She performed on the Lawrence Welk show and, in the story's period, looked approximately like this.

==Page 258==
'''This ARPAnet trip is eating up my time''' 
Fritz is perhaps the world's first Internet addict.

==Page 259==
'''if it happened to Thomas Noguchi''' 
Thomas Noguchi, Los Angeles' widely admired chief coroner, was fired by the LA County Board of Supervisors in 1969, and only reinstated after a month-long hearing. The firing was a cause celebre at the time, involving accusations of racial discrimination (against the Board) and of egotism, publicity-seeking, an inordinately gleeful attitude toward death (especially celebrity death), and other personality issues (against Noguchi). In 1982, he was demoted to Deputy Coroner for similar reasons.

==Page 260==
'''I had been enjoying a quiet family evening...watching Lawrence Welk''' 
Evening, Saturday, May 2, 1970. Saturday was the usual night for Welk. Bigfoot seems like a more likely fan of the show than Denis. Welk's show was probably the least hip show on TV, without even the ironic laughs of a Dragnet.

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'''The Saturday horror movie tonight was''' 
Late night, Saturday, May 2, 1970.

'''Val Lewton''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val_Lewton Producer] of "I Walked with a Zombie."

'''I Walked With a Zombie''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_walked_with_a_zombie 1943 horror film] directed by Jacques Tourneur. Trust me, the ending is confusing.

'''Larry Vincent''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Vincent Real late-night TV host.] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_xBk3K990g Listen] to a lo-fi clip.

'''Wiltern Theater''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiltern_Theater Famous] Art Deco landmark/theater in Los Angeles.

'''Next morning...Sunday ''Times''''' 
Morning, Sunday, May 3, 1970.

'''Shoot the Pier''' 
In surfing, to "shoot the pier" is to ride a surfboard in between the pilings of a pier.

==Page 262==
'''positioning the Book Review over his lap''' 
He's hiding his erection.

==Page 264==
'''Which didn't keep Doc from driving up to Venice that evening''' 
Evening, Sunday, May 3, 1970.

==Page 267==
'''lagan''' 
Pynchon makes lagans - which are literally left by Wolfmann earlier, and by Venice dopers here - into a metaphor for things that are deliberately lost and found again. Among other people and things, this could allude to Coy Harlingen, Mickey Wolfmann, pieces of information (a basic element of nearly all detective stories), Mickey Wolfmann's conscience or lack thereof, and innocence and purity generally.

==Page 270==
'''ah you poor Swedish Fish''' 
Used here in the slang sense of "a weak or inferior fellow" which is an old angler's term, according to ''A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, 8th Ed.'' by Eric Partridge [http://books.google.com/books?id=tvRp1whVFUsC&pg=PA395&lpg=PA395&dq=slang+%2B+%22poor+fish%22&source=bl&ots=gQ7Q4WUF5z&sig=_9FjAzJAy-pcLpIgoKkM3ymw17c&hl=en&ei=rufBSuiWMoPAsQPhvMXLAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#v=onepage&q=slang%20%2B%20%22poor%20fish%22&f=false] or perhaps more on point, in cards, slang for "an incompetent player whose incompetence can be exploited." [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/neither%20fish%20nor%20fowl] Also, see [[Chapter_3#Page_49|note for page 49]].

==Page 271==
'''Eleventh Commandment about criticizing a fellow flatfoot [...] Is it okay to ask if this party is still on the job?''' 
A bad pun on the Reagan-era Republicans' "eleventh commandment" not to criticize other Republicans. See [[Chapter_3#Page_48|note for page 48]].

'''as Elvis always sez, when you have such luck''' 
Doc is quoting "All Shook Up":
:My hands are shaky and my knees are weak 
:I can't seem to stand on my own two feet 
:Who do you thank when you have such luck? 
:I'm in love 
:I'm all shook up 

==Page 273==
'''Dig yourself''' 
This was probably a common enough phrase, but perhaps--just maybe--there's a connection to Bob Dylan here. In Dylan's iconic video for "Subterranean Homesick Blues" (the one in which Dylan holds placards with snippets from the lyrics), there are only three cards Dylan holds up that are not part of the song lyrics, including one that says: "Dig Yourself" (the other two, which appear in succession, say "Watch it!" and "Here they come!"). See the video [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-xIulyVsG8 here]. The card in question is at 1:51. (I know that that might be a stretch, but a guy can dream, can't he?)

'''natch-meister''' 
See [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_11#Page_166 note for pg. 166].

'''They approached a courtyard building nearly dissolved in the evening'''
 Evening, Sunday, May 3, 1970.

==Page 274==
'''The moon rose''' 
Night, Sunday, May 3, 1970. Almost a full moon.

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

==Y==

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Z==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'''headed up to Topanga that afternoon''' 
Afternoon, the ninth day of the narrative, Wednesday, April 1, 1970.

'''Stone Turntable''' 
The name is presumably intended to be a jokey reference to Rolling Stone: a stone turntable being not a rolling stone, but a rotating one.

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'''Jurgensen's''' 
Jurgensen's was an upscale, gourmet grocery store with locations in Beverly Hills, Pasadena, and throughout greater LA.

'''porte cochere''' 
Porch-like structure on the entrance of a building, large enough for vehicles, horses, and carriages to pass through, providing shelter from the weather.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porte-cochere Wikipedia]

[[File:Hokusai.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Great Wave off Kanagawa, image from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa Wikipedia]]]
'''Hokusai's famous ''Great Wave off Kanagawa''''' 
a famous woodblock print. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa Wikipedia]

==Page 126==
'''uncountableth''' 
In mathematics, "uncountable" is used to describe the size of infinite sets larger than the set of natural numbers. Pynchon's use of the word here is deliberately oxymoronic. See also the reference to George Cantor further in the same paragraph.

'''the Boards...''' 
As the surf band that makes it big, the Boards suggest the Beach Boys. Pynchon himself once visited the home of Brian Wilson in Beverly Hills. See [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pynchon_and_Brian_Wilson Pynchon and Brian Wilson]. Perhaps this chapter drew some inspiration from that visit?

'''Cantor's Delicatessen''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Cantor Georg Cantor] (1845-1918) was a German mathematician who pioneered the subject of set theory, now at the foundation of all modern mathematics. He proved that there are different sizes of infinity - for example, the set of natural numbers is smaller than the set of real numbers, though both sets are infinite. The name of the restaurant is a play on the real [http://www.cantersdeli.com/ Canter's Deli] in Los Angeles, established 1931.

==Page 128==
'''''Dark Shadows''. . . The Collins family . . . parallel time''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Shadows ''Dark Shadows''] was an innovative TV show in the late 1960's and early 70's that focuses on the Collins family. The show included many Gothic elements, including vampires, zombies, and witches. It also played with time travel and parallel universes in which the same character would be played by different actors or the same actor would play different characters.

If this is April 1, 1970, here's a plot summary of today's show from [http://www.darkshadows.com/cgi-bin/eplist.pl?ep=983 darkshadows.com], all in parallel time today:

:Daniel plans to drive Maggie out of Collinwood. Quentin tells Chris to make sure Bruno Hess, another loyal friend of Angelique, is kicked off the estate. Daniel frightens Maggie by having Amy hum a tune, making it sound like it was coming from Angelique's portrait; Amy later tells Daniel that she did not make the humming sound.

'''parallel time''' 
This paragraph ''may'' be a coded reference to Pynchon's own [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page Against the Day] and its reception. ''Against the Day'' features parallel universes/time (?) and confounded readers nation- (and world-)wide. This interpretation may be a stretch.

In [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''V.''] Pynchon talks about [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Mirror_Time "Mirror Time"]:

:"Rachel was looking into the mirror at an angle of 45°, and so had a view of the face turned toward the room and the face on the other side, reflected in the mirror; here were time and reverse-time, co-existing, cancelling one another exactly out. Were there many such reference points, scattered through the world, perhaps only at nodes like this room which housed a transient population of the imperfect, the dissatisfied [...]" ([http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Mirror_Time ''V.'', p.46])

'''Hanon''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanon Hanon] was a 19th-century French piano teacher and composer. He's most famous for developing exercises for piano students.

The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Virtuoso_Pianist_in_60_Exercises exercises], rather than the guy who wrote them, are the primary focus of the reference. These are the basic finger exercises that almost everyone who took piano played for some period, and almost everyone who has had a family member who took piano listend to over and over for seemingly endless periods. They're basically short, hurried, unmelodic scales that work up and down the keyboard without any regard for key. The more advanced exercises feature 4th- and 5th-finger repetitions and trills that are about as pleasant to listen to as a skipping record. They would sound particularly silly on a portable Farfisa, and practicing them on a Farfisa would be strange, as the instrument, unlike a piano, has soft organ keys with virtually no action.

An [http://www.upload-mp3.com/files/84678_nuehq/HanonFarfisa.mp3 MP3] of Hanon's Exercise 1 played on a Farfisa (actually a synthesizer emulating a Farfisa).

'''Farfisa''' 
One of the first electric keyboards/organs used in rock 'n' roll. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farfisa Wikipedia entry...] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkvK638yKuY "Ninety-six Tears" by ? & the Mysterians] is a classic example of the Farfisa sound, as is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O6x_m4zvFs&feature=fvw "Light My Fire" by the Doors].

==Page 130==
'''George Formby''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Formby,_Jr. George Formby, Jr.] performed "Leaning on a Lamppost" (written by Noel Gay) which Herman's Hermits covered. Tyrone Slothrop, protagonist of ''Gravity's Rainbow'' is described as "sort of an American George Formby, if you can imagine such a thing." Obvious influence on "The Bonzo Dog Band." Here's a video of George Formby singing [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEymZ3rXOmc Leaning On A Lamp Post.]

==Page 131==
'''Donna Lee''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Lee Donna Lee], way more than Coy's usual 1 or 2 note solos.

'''abrazo''' 
Spanish for hug.

==Page 132==
'''third ballet position''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positions_of_the_feet_in_ballet here]

'''louche''' 
Of questionable taste or morality; decadent.

==Page 133==
[[File:Example.jpg|thumb|right|1949 Mercury Woodie [http://www.pbase.com/xl1ken/image/3748891 © Ken Leonard] used with permission]]
'''1949 Mercury woodie''' 
''The Mod Squad'' drove a Mercury woodie, either a '49 or '50.

==Page 134==
'''no longer saw the headlights''' 
Evening, the ninth day of the narrative, Wednesday, April 1, 1970.

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

'''did he happen to catch the game with Phoenix''' 
Daytime, the tenth day of the narrative, Thursday, April 2, 1970. Doc is probably referring to the second game of the Western Conference playoffs. The Lakers beat Phoenix 114-101 on March 29. Again, Pynchon has anchored the text in real time by referring to an NBA playoff game.

This is probably as good a time as any to mention that the 69-70 NBA season was a big one for Lakers fans. Bill Russell had just retired as a player, after leading the Celtics to 11 of the last 13 championships. Finally, other teams would have a shot at the title. The Lakers thought that the title would be theirs. Unfortunately for Lakers fans, so did the Knicks.

'''Upstairs, Bigfoot, strangely jumpy today''' 
The '''today''' is what identifies this as Daytime, the tenth day of the narrative, Thursday, April 2, 1970.

==Page 140==
'''--not logical, Captain''' 
Star Trek reference, a phrase often spoken by Spock to Kirk.

==Page 141==
[[File:Triumph_Bonneville_T120.jpg|thumb|right|Triumph Bonneville T120, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_Bonneville_T120 Wikipedia]]]
'''Triumph Bonneville T120'''

[[File:Kawasaki_Mach_III.jpg|thumb|right|Kawasaki Mach III, photo by [http://www.flickr.com/photos/optikalblitz/2447598991/ optikal / Creative Commons]]] 
'''Kawasaki Mach III'''

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'''Around lunchtime, next day''' 
Midday, the eleventh day of the narrative, Friday, April 3, 1970.

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'''SS396''' 
[http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Cars_mentioned_in_Inherent_Vice#SS396 Photo]

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'''esta gente no sabe nada''' 
Spanish for "these people know nothing."

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'''hijo de puta''' 
Spanish for "son of a bitch."

'''otra vez''' 
Spanish for "again/one more time."

'''Looking forward to a peaceful morning in the office''' 
Morning, the twelfth day of the narrative, Saturday, April 4, 1970.

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'''"Cootie food!'''" 
What Doc means is "le coup de foudre," aka "bolt of lightning." This echos Reef's 'rounder Italian'; "Say surly topple!" he would scream..." (page 889) from [[Against the Day]]. 
The English meaning, if it has one, and the explanation for Clancy Charlock's response to Doc, is unclear. It may perhaps refer to the childish fear of being infected by a sort of imaginary germ borne by the opposite sex and known as "cooties," which - possibly - makes a member of the opposite sex whom you touch "cootie food." Or, it could just be a very idiosyncratic reference to oral sex. 

Another possibility is that Doc, whose French is likely weaker than his Spanish, memorized the phrase phonetically as "cootie food", since he would not have known the spelling when it was told to him. Assuming Clancy understands French, or at least this particular idiom, her reply is fairly natural.

The phrase is apparently used - at least in the South, and not commonly - to refer to unappetizing or unclean food.

Cooties is slang for crabs or lice.

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'''Now, Voyager (1942)''' 
from Wikipedia: Now, Voyager is a 1942 American drama film directed by Irving Rapper. The screenplay by Casey Robinson is based on the 1941 novel of the same name by Olive Higgins Prouty, who borrowed her title from a line in the Walt Whitman poem "The Untold Want," which reads in its entirety, "The untold want by life and land ne'er granted, / Now voyager sail thou forth to seek and find." Bette Davis' portrayal garnered her an Academy Award nomination, and the film continues to be popular not only due to its star power but also the "emotional crescendos" engendered in the storyline.

The film includes the line: "Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon... we have the stars."

The film's romantic smoke sequence, repeated during the film and much parodied, featured Paul Henried placing two cigarettes in his lips, lighting them both, then handing one to Bette Davis. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-KGiwGn1d8 YouTube]

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'''That night Doc met Clancy''' 
Evening, the twelfth day of the narrative, Saturday, April 4, 1970.

'''Zubin Mehta''' 
A famous conductor, Zubin Mehta was the Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, 1962-1978. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zubin_Mehta]

'''massé shots''' 
In billiards, a massé shot is when a player strikes a ball with the cue at a sharp angle and causes the ball to curve drastically or even eventually reverse direction. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0ly8Ee_7jM Here's an example.] Some pool halls (like this one) forbid this kind of shot because it often leads to scratching or tearing of the felt.

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'''"Happy Trails to You"''' 
Besides the reference to Roy Roger's theme song, this phrase is a favorite double entendre among those who use psychedelic drugs. "Acid trails" are a common hallucination produced by LSD.

Also the title (and last track) of the 1968, "live", genre-defining, acid-rock album by the Quicksilver Messenger Service [http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/1108947/a/Happy+Trails.htm]

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