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2010-04-28T11:53:51Z

Georgeman:

<div id="earp">'''Earp, Marshal Wyatt (1948-1929)'''</div>
American farmer, teamster, buffalo hunter, officer of the law in various Western frontier towns, gambler, saloon-keeper, miner and boxing referee. He is best known for his participation in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, along with Doc Holliday, and two of his brothers, Virgil Earp and Morgan Earp. He is also noted for the Earp Vendetta. Wyatt Earp has become an iconic figure in American folk history 

219; his coffee mug which was specially designed to keep his mustache dry; gift to Bigfoot, 263; value of mug, 335 

Earp's mustache also features in [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=E#earp Gravity's Rainbow].

'''Easter Island''' 
355; A Pacific island famous for its stone human figures, seen [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Moai_Rano_raraku.jpg here].

'''Eastwood, Clint (b. 1930)''' 
204; an American actor, film director, producer and composer. He has received four Academy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award and five People's Choice Awards. Eastwood is primarily known for his tough guy, anti-hero acting roles in violent action films, particularly in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.

'''Eddie and the Showmen''' 
124; Guitarist Eddie Bertrand quit the surf combo The Bel-Airs (of "Mr Moto" fame) over an argument with co-guitarist Paul Johnson. Apparently, Paul Johnson objected to Eddie's heavy use of spring reverb. His band, Eddie and the Showmen, broke up in 1965.

'''"Eight Miles High"''' 
Druggy song written by Gene Clark, Jim McGuinn, and David Crosby, first released as a single in March 1966 by the rock band The Byrds. The single reached #14 on the Billboard Hot 100, and #24 in the United Kingdom. The song was also included on the band's third album ''Fifth Dimension'', released on July 18, 1966; on the radio, 135

'''Einer''' 
215; Puck Beaverton's roommate; in Nine of Diamonds, 231

'''Electric Prunes''' 
Rock band who first achieved international attention as an experimental psychedelic group in the late 1960s, and contributed two tracks to the soundtrack of ''Easy Rider''. Their first hit was "I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)" (1966); 103

'''Elephant's Memory''' 
New York band most notable for backing up John Lennon and Yoko Ono during 1972 (appearing as the Plastic Ono Elephant's Memory Band) on a pair of albums and a handful of TV and live appearances; bootleg tape of, 368

'''Elfmont''' 
43; drummer in the Corvairs

'''Elmina''' 
See Breeze, Elmina

'''Ensenada Slim''' 
10; "village elder" who operates a headshop called Screaming Ultraviolet Brain; 35; 256

'''Epic Lunch''' 
256; one of Doc's hangouts in Gordita Beach

'''Erskine, Inspector Lewis "Lew"''' 
75; The fictional character played by Efrem Zimbalist Jr. in the 1965-1974 ABC TV series ''The FBI''; 222

'''Eskenazi, Roza (1890-1980)''' 
249; was a famous Greek singer of Rebetiko and traditional Greek music from Asia Minor. Her recording career extended from the late 1920s into the 1970s. Her style was called Rebetiko, a type of Greek urban folk music that combines European and Middle Eastern music, and sometimes called the Greek blues, the themes being predominantly hard-luck women, no-good men, drinking, hashish and poverty.

'''Ev''' 
226; geezer in Curly's in Las Vegas

'''"Everything's Coming Up Roses"''' 
247; a song from the 1959 Broadway musical ''Gypsy: A Musical Fable'', with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and music by Jule Styne. It was most famously sung by Ethel Merman. It is notable for its ironic placement in the show, as well its unusual use of musical triplets in the melody.
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2010-04-28T11:05:16Z

Georgeman:

<div id="earp">'''Earp, Marshal Wyatt (1948-1929)'''</div>
American farmer, teamster, buffalo hunter, officer of the law in various Western frontier towns, gambler, saloon-keeper, miner and boxing referee. He is best known for his participation in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, along with Doc Holliday, and two of his brothers, Virgil Earp and Morgan Earp. He is also noted for the Earp Vendetta. Wyatt Earp has become an iconic figure in American folk history; his coffee mug, in Las Vegas, 219

'''Easter Island''' 
355; A Pacific island famous for its stone human figures, seen [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Moai_Rano_raraku.jpg here].

'''Eastwood, Clint (b. 1930)''' 
204; an American actor, film director, producer and composer. He has received four Academy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award and five People's Choice Awards. Eastwood is primarily known for his tough guy, anti-hero acting roles in violent action films, particularly in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.

'''Eddie and the Showmen''' 
124; Guitarist Eddie Bertrand quit the surf combo The Bel-Airs (of "Mr Moto" fame) over an argument with co-guitarist Paul Johnson. Apparently, Paul Johnson objected to Eddie's heavy use of spring reverb. His band, Eddie and the Showmen, broke up in 1965.

'''"Eight Miles High"''' 
Druggy song written by Gene Clark, Jim McGuinn, and David Crosby, first released as a single in March 1966 by the rock band The Byrds. The single reached #14 on the Billboard Hot 100, and #24 in the United Kingdom. The song was also included on the band's third album ''Fifth Dimension'', released on July 18, 1966; on the radio, 135

'''Einer''' 
215; Puck Beaverton's roommate; in Nine of Diamonds, 231

'''Electric Prunes''' 
Rock band who first achieved international attention as an experimental psychedelic group in the late 1960s, and contributed two tracks to the soundtrack of ''Easy Rider''. Their first hit was "I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)" (1966); 103

'''Elephant's Memory''' 
New York band most notable for backing up John Lennon and Yoko Ono during 1972 (appearing as the Plastic Ono Elephant's Memory Band) on a pair of albums and a handful of TV and live appearances; bootleg tape of, 368

'''Elfmont''' 
43; drummer in the Corvairs

'''Elmina''' 
See Breeze, Elmina

'''Ensenada Slim''' 
10; "village elder" who operates a headshop called Screaming Ultraviolet Brain; 35; 256

'''Epic Lunch''' 
256; one of Doc's hangouts in Gordita Beach

'''Erskine, Inspector Lewis "Lew"''' 
75; The fictional character played by Efrem Zimbalist Jr. in the 1965-1974 ABC TV series ''The FBI''; 222

'''Eskenazi, Roza (1890-1980)''' 
249; was a famous Greek singer of Rebetiko and traditional Greek music from Asia Minor. Her recording career extended from the late 1920s into the 1970s. Her style was called Rebetiko, a type of Greek urban folk music that combines European and Middle Eastern music, and sometimes called the Greek blues, the themes being predominantly hard-luck women, no-good men, drinking, hashish and poverty.

'''Ev''' 
226; geezer in Curly's in Las Vegas

'''"Everything's Coming Up Roses"''' 
247; a song from the 1959 Broadway musical ''Gypsy: A Musical Fable'', with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and music by Jule Styne. It was most famously sung by Ethel Merman. It is notable for its ironic placement in the show, as well its unusual use of musical triplets in the melody.
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2010-04-28T11:05:02Z

Georgeman:

<div id"earp">'''Earp, Marshal Wyatt (1948-1929)'''</div>
American farmer, teamster, buffalo hunter, officer of the law in various Western frontier towns, gambler, saloon-keeper, miner and boxing referee. He is best known for his participation in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, along with Doc Holliday, and two of his brothers, Virgil Earp and Morgan Earp. He is also noted for the Earp Vendetta. Wyatt Earp has become an iconic figure in American folk history; his coffee mug, in Las Vegas, 219

'''Easter Island''' 
355; A Pacific island famous for its stone human figures, seen [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Moai_Rano_raraku.jpg here].

'''Eastwood, Clint (b. 1930)''' 
204; an American actor, film director, producer and composer. He has received four Academy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award and five People's Choice Awards. Eastwood is primarily known for his tough guy, anti-hero acting roles in violent action films, particularly in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.

'''Eddie and the Showmen''' 
124; Guitarist Eddie Bertrand quit the surf combo The Bel-Airs (of "Mr Moto" fame) over an argument with co-guitarist Paul Johnson. Apparently, Paul Johnson objected to Eddie's heavy use of spring reverb. His band, Eddie and the Showmen, broke up in 1965.

'''"Eight Miles High"''' 
Druggy song written by Gene Clark, Jim McGuinn, and David Crosby, first released as a single in March 1966 by the rock band The Byrds. The single reached #14 on the Billboard Hot 100, and #24 in the United Kingdom. The song was also included on the band's third album ''Fifth Dimension'', released on July 18, 1966; on the radio, 135

'''Einer''' 
215; Puck Beaverton's roommate; in Nine of Diamonds, 231

'''Electric Prunes''' 
Rock band who first achieved international attention as an experimental psychedelic group in the late 1960s, and contributed two tracks to the soundtrack of ''Easy Rider''. Their first hit was "I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)" (1966); 103

'''Elephant's Memory''' 
New York band most notable for backing up John Lennon and Yoko Ono during 1972 (appearing as the Plastic Ono Elephant's Memory Band) on a pair of albums and a handful of TV and live appearances; bootleg tape of, 368

'''Elfmont''' 
43; drummer in the Corvairs

'''Elmina''' 
See Breeze, Elmina

'''Ensenada Slim''' 
10; "village elder" who operates a headshop called Screaming Ultraviolet Brain; 35; 256

'''Epic Lunch''' 
256; one of Doc's hangouts in Gordita Beach

'''Erskine, Inspector Lewis "Lew"''' 
75; The fictional character played by Efrem Zimbalist Jr. in the 1965-1974 ABC TV series ''The FBI''; 222

'''Eskenazi, Roza (1890-1980)''' 
249; was a famous Greek singer of Rebetiko and traditional Greek music from Asia Minor. Her recording career extended from the late 1920s into the 1970s. Her style was called Rebetiko, a type of Greek urban folk music that combines European and Middle Eastern music, and sometimes called the Greek blues, the themes being predominantly hard-luck women, no-good men, drinking, hashish and poverty.

'''Ev''' 
226; geezer in Curly's in Las Vegas

'''"Everything's Coming Up Roses"''' 
247; a song from the 1959 Broadway musical ''Gypsy: A Musical Fable'', with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and music by Jule Styne. It was most famously sung by Ethel Merman. It is notable for its ironic placement in the show, as well its unusual use of musical triplets in the melody.
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2010-04-27T03:13:15Z

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==Page 186==
'''Doc made a couple of phone calls and took the back route up by way of Burbank and Santa Paula, reaching the Ojai turn-off just before lunchtime.''' 
Doc takes an unusual and very out-of-the-way route. From Gordita Beach (Manhattan Beach) or Rancho Park (end of chapter 11) most drivers would go north on the 405 freeway to the 5 freeway north, exit at the 126 highway, proceed west to Santa Paula, and then take "the Ojai turn-off" (Ojai Road, 150) to Ojai. But for Doc to go to ''Burbank'' is quite a roundabout route to take. 
:were those highways there in the 60s?

'''reaching the Ojai turnoff fust before lunchtime.''' 
Morning, Sunday, April 26, 1970.

'''Krotona Hill''' 
A hill in Ojai where an institute run by the Theosophical Society in America is currently located.

==Page 187==
'''Dr. Threeply''' 
The name may refer to three-ply plywood. Basic run-of-the-mill (literally) plywood that's used in quantity for sheathing when building houses is often three-ply. This is, perhaps, consistent with the paragraph describing him, which mentions two other building products (aluminum siding and screen doors) and alludes to some event that has "torqued him out of tolerance," as might happen to plywood that has been misused and become twisted.

==Page 188==
'''"chakras... concentrations of spiritual energy... grace" 
Doc's simple statement (lie?), that he chose Ojai because of the spiritual energies, contains numerous echoes of important Pynchon concepts: energy in ATD, ley lines in M&D, grace in ATD, etc.

'''J Krishnamurti''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiddu_Krishnamurti Jiddu Krishnamurti] was a prominent Indian-born spiritualist who did, in fact, live in Ojai.

'''After lunch, Doc was bustled around''' 
Afternoon, Sunday, April 26, 1970.

==Page 190==
'''...the one with Shasta hand-painted on it...''' 
A hand-painted tie with a nude woman also appears in [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=H#hptie Gravity's Rainbow].

'''Shaggy . . . Scoob''' 
Characters in the cartoon ''Scooby Doo''. An appropriate reference since the cartoon first was aired in 1969 and involved solving mysteries.

==Page 191==
'''a pinner of gold Colombian''' 
A pinner is a thinly-rolled marijuana cigarette, sort of a mini-joint.

'''edges of cliffs in Hawaii''' 
This passage about suicidal love sick men is strikingly similar to one in ''Vineland'':
:Hawaii is where men from California bring their broken hearts, seeking exotic forms of self-injury not so readily available on the mainland. Some specialize in active volcanoes, others in cliff diving, many go for the classier swimming-out-to-sea option. I can put you onto several travel agents who offer Suicide Fantasy packages, if you're interested. (p. 60)

==Page 192==
'''por vida''' 
For life.

==Page 193==
'''the shadows around the place were lengthening.''' 
Afternoon/Evening, Sunday, April 26, 1970. The metaphorical shadows are lengthening, too.

'''engineering decisions taken long ago at Wolfsburg''' 
Wolfsburg, Germany is the headquarters of Volkswagen AG. The VW microbus was first manufactured "long ago" in 1950.

'''Something Happened to me Yesterday''' 
from the The Rolling Stones' 1967 album Between the Buttons. Another (loose) WWII connection, from Wikipedia: the song ends with the lyrics "So if you're out tonight, don't forget, if you're on your bike, wear white. Evening all." Jagger has said (plainly facetiously) that this passage is "something I remember hearing on the BBC as the bombs dropped" (ie in the first two years of his life)." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something_Happened_to_Me_Yesterday w]

==Page 194==
'''the word is not the thing, the map is not the territory''' 
The expression "the map is not the territory" first appeared in print in a paper that Alfred Korzybski (developer of General Semantics) gave at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1931. ''The map is not the territory'' signifies that individual people in fact do not in general have access to absolute knowledge of reality, but in fact only have access to a set of beliefs they have built up over time, about reality ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map%E2%80%93territory_relation#.22The_map_is_not_the_territory.22 Wikipedia]). The phrase "The symbol is NOT the thing symbolized; the word is NOT the thing; the map is NOT the territory it stands for." also appears in S.I. Hayakawa's ''Language in Thought and Action'', Harcourt, Brace and Company, (New York), 1949, p.31.

'''Doc got back to the beach just at early evening''' 
Evening, Sunday, April 26, 1970.

==Page 196==
'''"...put everything in the Ostracizer and made smoothies..."''' 
Denis means [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osterizer Osterizer], a brand of blender or food processor.

'''Didn't you see that movie?''' 
Denis is referring here to the 1932 film [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freaks ''Freaks''], a horror film about sideshow performers with a cast of actual sideshow performers. One of the midgets from ''Freaks'' makes a cameo in GR.

The Shasta/Mickey story shows some similarities to the central love story in the film. A "normal" and beautiful woman pretends to love--and marries--one of the "freaks" simply for his money. The freaks revolt against her and maim her, ultimately turning her into freak show exhibit.

'''Code of the Freaks''' 
is the "code of ethics" that the sideshow performers in Tod Browning's movie "Freaks" build up among themselves, "to protect them from the barbs of normal people. Their rules are rigidly adhered to and the hurt of one is the hurt of all; the joy of one is the joy of all." [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2jsX_R25LE]

==Page 197==
'''Next morning Doc threaded in to work''' 
Morning, Monday, April 27, 1970.

==Page 199==
'''Tarzana''' 
Completely irrelevant trivia: Tarzana is named after Tarzan because Edgar Rice Burroughs (the author who created Tarzan) was a prominent citizen. More [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarzana here].

==Page 200==
'''''The Beverly Hillbillies'' rolled along toward ''Green Acres''''' 
Green Acres usually aired at 9:00 P.M on Saturdays, and Beverly Hillbillies on Wednesdays at 8:30 P.M., while this is Monday, April 27, 1970. A check of Los Angeles TV listings confirms that these shows are not on tonight. In fact, there is no time in the spring of 1970 that one followed the other. Given the nature of whom Doc is visiting and the subject matter of the shows, perhaps the rolling along is metaphorical.

==Page 201==
'''Gleichschaltung Model 33 Automatic Bazooka''' 
''Gleichschaltung'', meaning "coordination," "making the same," "bringing into line," is a system the Hitler regime developed for the complete forcing into line of German society in terms of politics, information and culture. Gleichschaltung's system established totalitarian control over the individual, therby forcing the individual/society to follow a specific way of thinking using an oppressive police force. It started, unsurprisingly, in '33.
'Schaltung' in German also refers to gears and switches (often, but not exclusively those of cars), so it might also refer to the bazooka's automated mechanism here.

==Page 202==
'''...can we improve your life tonight?''' 
Evening, Monday, April 27, 1970.

==Page 204==
'''We've been trying to call you all evening.''' 
Evening, Monday, April 27, 1970.

'''Hermosa Theater...''The Good, the Bad and the Ugly''...double feature...''The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie''''' 
That would be a very odd double feature. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060196/synopsis The Good, the Bad and the Ugly] is a blood-drenched spaghetti western, while [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064840/plotsummary The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie] is a heartwarming feminist fable about a schoolteacher in 1930's Scotland. 
The importance of these films to the timeline is that they occur during the "few days" that the Dart is in the body shop. A check of movie listings shows no Hermosa (beautiful) Theater. The same check shows no instance of these films ever appearing together on a double bill. Interestingly, in the spring of 1970, ''The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie'' was often paired in second-run houses with ''Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.'' It's Doc mentioning that the two movies shared a bill, so you could chalk it up to stoner's memory.

'''Lee Van Cleef''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Van_Cleef Actor] of many Westerns. Brutal killer in "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly."

'''Rowdy Yates''' 
Rowdy Yates was the character played by Eastwood in the "Rawhide" television series

==Page 205==
'''That night Doc dreamed''' 
The night of Monday, April 27, 1970.

'''little Larry''' 
Numerous critics have remarked upon the similarity between ''Inherent Vice'' and ''The Big Lebowski''. It's probably a stretch, but worth noting that "little Larry" is a character in Lebowski (who stole the Dude's car (or did he?)).

==Page 206==
'''dead people who do and don't come back''' 
Sounds like the Thanatoids in [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Vineland''].

'''He walked around well into the morning''' 
Morning, Tuesday, April 28, 1970.

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2010-04-27T03:04:33Z

Georgeman:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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102; Sortilege's guru; 306

'''fantan''' 
81; similar to roulette, fantan (or Fan-Tan) was once a favorite pastime of the Chinese in America. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan-Tan Wikipedia entry]

'''Fapardokly''' 
Merrell Wayne Fankhauser (b. 1943) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist who was most active in the 1960s and 1970s with bands including the Impacts, Exiles, Fapardokly, HMS Bounty, Fankhauser-Cassidy Band, and MU. "Super Market" appeared on Fapardokly's 1966 album ''Fapardokly''; "triple-tongue highway classic" 368; [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiIRj62VbB0 Check out some Fapardokly on YouTube...]

'''Fazzo, Fabian''' 
238; gent who looks like "a banker in an old movie" at the Kismet in Las Vegas; Chief Operating Officer, Kiscorp, 362

'''feng shui''' 
Ancient Chinese system of aesthetics believed to use the laws of both Heaven (astronomy) and Earth (geography) to help one improve life by receiving positive qi. Traditional feng shui practice always requires an extremely accurate Chinese compass, or luo pan, in order to determine the directions in finding any auspicious sector in a desired location; mirror at Golden Fang HQ, 168

'''Fenway, Crocker''' 
171; Japonica's wealthy father; 314; "Prince of Palos Verdes" 341

<div id="japonica">'''Fenway, Japonica'''</div>
170; at Golden Fang HQ for "Smile Maintenance"; a Cybernet Organism / Kozmic Traveler visiting other worlds v. Real Japonica, 173; her car, Wolfgang, 175; [[Plants of Inherent Vice| See: Plants of Inherent Vice]]

'''FFO''' 
154; music club on Sunset, where Spotted Dick is playing; Funds From Operations (FFO): a term used in real estate investment trusts (REITs) to define the cash flow from their operations.

'''Fields, W. C. (1880-1946)''' 
9; American comedian, actor and juggler. Fields created one of the great American comic personas of the first half of the 20th century: a misanthropic and hard-drinking egotist who remained a sympathetic character despite his snarling contempt for dogs, children, and women; Elmina's father's routine, 112

'''Fiona''' 
129; Smedley's Farfisa organ

'''Flaco the Bad''' 
12; acquaintance of Doc's; 100; 256

'''flatland''' 
The Los Angeles flatland is the area of Los Angeles and Orange counties that is inland, at the foot of the San Gabriel, Santa Monica and Santa Ana mountains and the Palos Verdes peninsula, as contrasted with the "hipper" beach communities; 4

'''Flatweed, Special Agent''' 
72; FBI agent, partner of Special Agent Hugo Borderline; with Penny Kimball; with SA Borderline, in Las Vegas, 220, 222; at Kismet Lounge, 243-244

'''Fleming, Art (1924-1995)''' 
American television host, most notably the original host of the TV game show ''Jeopardy''!; "Art Fleming look on his face" 48

'''''Flintstones, The''''' 
An animated American television sitcom that ran from 1960 to 1966 on ABC, produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions; "page right out of history" 235; 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. 

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

'''"Fly Me to the Moon"''' 
75; Popular standard song written by Bart Howard in 1954. It was titled originally "In Other Words", and was introduced by Felicia Sanders in cabarets. The song became known popularly as "Fly Me to the Moon" from its first line, and after a few years the publishers changed the title to that officially. The song has also been recorded by Nat King Cole and, probably most recognizably, by Frank Sinatra who recorded the song on his 1964 album ''It Might as Well Be Swing'' accompanied by Count Basie. The arrangement by Quincy Jones has become the rendition by which most people recognise the song. Jones changed the time signature, which was originally 3/4 waltz-time, to 4/4 and gave it a 'swing' feel. Sinatra's recording was a hit and was played by the astronauts of Apollo 10, on their lunar-orbital mission and again on the moon itself by the astronaut Buzz Aldrin during Apollo 11. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly_me_to_the_moon Wikipedia entry]

'''Folsom''' 
271; Folsom State Prison is located east of Sacramento in Northern California, probably best known because of the Johnny Cash song "Folsom Prison Blues."

'''Fonda, Henry (1905-1982)''' 
American film and stage actor, best known for his roles as plain-speaking idealists. Fonda's subtle, naturalistic acting style preceded by many years the popularization of method acting; ''Fort Apache'' (1948), 171

'''Fortnight, Trillium''' 
216; "dishevelled girl in a tiny skirt" referred to Doc by Boris Spivey and Dawnette, teaches music theory at UCLA; marries Puck Beaverton, 246; admitted to Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas with concussion, cuts and bruises, released in the custody of her parents several days later, 366. A trillium is a rather fragile type of wildflower; [[Plants of Inherent Vice| See: Plants of Inherent Vice]]

'''Freak Brothers''' 
[[image:freak-brothers.jpg|right|200px|thumb|caption|Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers]]
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."; 33; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabulous_Furry_Freak_Brothers Wikipedia entry]

<div id="freaks">'''''Freaks'''''</div>
196; 1932 American horror film about sideshow performers, directed and produced by Tod Browning and released by MGM, with a cast mostly composed of actual carnival performers. The film was based on Tod Robbins' short story "Spurs". Director Browning took the exceptional step of casting real people with deformities as the eponymous sideshow "freaks," rather than using costumes and makeup; "Code of the Freaks": "If you offend one of them, you have offended them all"
Also mentioned in [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=F#freaks Gravity's Rainbow].

'''Frid, Jonathan''' 
233; Barnabas ... the vampire guy on ''Dark Shadows'', in Las Vegas, singing "Haunted Heart"

'''Fritz''' 
See Drybeam, Fritz

'''Fromme, Lynette "Squeaky" (b. 1948)''' 
283; American criminal, former member of the Manson Family, convicted of attempting to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford in 1975. She is currently serving a life sentence in prison; "righteous-ass bitch" 293

<div id="frootloops">'''Froot Loops'''</div>
Brand of breakfast cereal produced by Kelloggs. The cereal pieces are torus-shaped (hence "loops") and come in a variety of bright colors and a blend of artificial fruit flavors. Kellogg's introduced Froot Loops in 1963. Originally, there were red, orange, and yellow loops, but green, then purple, and finally blue were added by the 1990s; 308; A stoner treat, they are also eaten in [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#frootloops Vineland].

''''fro pick''' 
3; An "Afro" pick, aka a comb for the Afro hairstyle; this doesn't mean Doc has an Afro, only that he borrowed one "for protection."

'''Frothingham, Rhus''' 
275; LA deputy DA with whom Penny Kimball shares a cubicle at the Hall of Justice; 282; [[Plants of Inherent Vice| See: Plants of Inherent Vice]]

'''Fuller, Buckminster ("Bucky") (1895-1983)''' 
62; an American architect, author, designer, futurist, inventor, and visionary. Fuller wrote more than thirty books, coining and popularizing terms such as "Spaceship Earth", ephemeralization, and synergetics. He also worked in the development of numerous inventions, chiefly in the fields of design and architecture, the best known of which is the geodesic dome. Carbon molecules known as fullerenes or buckyballs were named for their resemblance to geodesic spheres.251

'''Full Moon in Pisces''' 
241-242; song Lark is singing at the Kismet

'''Furies, the''' 
156; opening for Spotted Dick at FFO - 3 basses and no lead guitar

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102; Sortilege's guru; 306

'''fantan''' 
81; similar to roulette, fantan (or Fan-Tan) was once a favorite pastime of the Chinese in America. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan-Tan Wikipedia entry]

'''Fapardokly''' 
Merrell Wayne Fankhauser (b. 1943) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist who was most active in the 1960s and 1970s with bands including the Impacts, Exiles, Fapardokly, HMS Bounty, Fankhauser-Cassidy Band, and MU. "Super Market" appeared on Fapardokly's 1966 album ''Fapardokly''; "triple-tongue highway classic" 368; [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiIRj62VbB0 Check out some Fapardokly on YouTube...]

'''Fazzo, Fabian''' 
238; gent who looks like "a banker in an old movie" at the Kismet in Las Vegas; Chief Operating Officer, Kiscorp, 362

'''feng shui''' 
Ancient Chinese system of aesthetics believed to use the laws of both Heaven (astronomy) and Earth (geography) to help one improve life by receiving positive qi. Traditional feng shui practice always requires an extremely accurate Chinese compass, or luo pan, in order to determine the directions in finding any auspicious sector in a desired location; mirror at Golden Fang HQ, 168

'''Fenway, Crocker''' 
171; Japonica's wealthy father; 314; "Prince of Palos Verdes" 341

<div id="japonica">'''Fenway, Japonica'''</div>
170; at Golden Fang HQ for "Smile Maintenance"; a Cybernet Organism / Kozmic Traveler visiting other worlds v. Real Japonica, 173; her car, Wolfgang, 175; [[Plants of Inherent Vice| See: Plants of Inherent Vice]]

'''FFO''' 
154; music club on Sunset, where Spotted Dick is playing; Funds From Operations (FFO): a term used in real estate investment trusts (REITs) to define the cash flow from their operations.

'''Fields, W. C. (1880-1946)''' 
9; American comedian, actor and juggler. Fields created one of the great American comic personas of the first half of the 20th century: a misanthropic and hard-drinking egotist who remained a sympathetic character despite his snarling contempt for dogs, children, and women; Elmina's father's routine, 112

'''Fiona''' 
129; Smedley's Farfisa organ

'''Flaco the Bad''' 
12; acquaintance of Doc's; 100; 256

'''flatland''' 
The Los Angeles flatland is the area of Los Angeles and Orange counties that is inland, at the foot of the San Gabriel, Santa Monica and Santa Ana mountains and the Palos Verdes peninsula, as contrasted with the "hipper" beach communities; 4

'''Flatweed, Special Agent''' 
72; FBI agent, partner of Special Agent Hugo Borderline; with Penny Kimball; with SA Borderline, in Las Vegas, 220, 222; at Kismet Lounge, 243-244

'''Fleming, Art (1924-1995)''' 
American television host, most notably the original host of the TV game show ''Jeopardy''!; "Art Fleming look on his face" 48

'''''Flintstones, The''''' 
An animated American television sitcom that ran from 1960 to 1966 on ABC, produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions; "page right out of history" 235; 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. 

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

'''"Fly Me to the Moon"''' 
75; Popular standard song written by Bart Howard in 1954. It was titled originally "In Other Words", and was introduced by Felicia Sanders in cabarets. The song became known popularly as "Fly Me to the Moon" from its first line, and after a few years the publishers changed the title to that officially. The song has also been recorded by Nat King Cole and, probably most recognizably, by Frank Sinatra who recorded the song on his 1964 album ''It Might as Well Be Swing'' accompanied by Count Basie. The arrangement by Quincy Jones has become the rendition by which most people recognise the song. Jones changed the time signature, which was originally 3/4 waltz-time, to 4/4 and gave it a 'swing' feel. Sinatra's recording was a hit and was played by the astronauts of Apollo 10, on their lunar-orbital mission and again on the moon itself by the astronaut Buzz Aldrin during Apollo 11. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly_me_to_the_moon Wikipedia entry]

'''Folsom''' 
271; Folsom State Prison is located east of Sacramento in Northern California, probably best known because of the Johnny Cash song "Folsom Prison Blues."

'''Fonda, Henry (1905-1982)''' 
American film and stage actor, best known for his roles as plain-speaking idealists. Fonda's subtle, naturalistic acting style preceded by many years the popularization of method acting; ''Fort Apache'' (1948), 171

'''Fortnight, Trillium''' 
216; "dishevelled girl in a tiny skirt" referred to Doc by Boris Spivey and Dawnette, teaches music theory at UCLA; marries Puck Beaverton, 246; admitted to Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas with concussion, cuts and bruises, released in the custody of her parents several days later, 366. A trillium is a rather fragile type of wildflower; [[Plants of Inherent Vice| See: Plants of Inherent Vice]]

'''Freak Brothers''' 
[[image:freak-brothers.jpg|right|200px|thumb|caption|Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers]]
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."; 33; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabulous_Furry_Freak_Brothers Wikipedia entry]

<div id="freaks">'''''Freaks'''''</div>
196; 1932 American horror film about sideshow performers, directed and produced by Tod Browning and released by MGM, with a cast mostly composed of actual carnival performers. The film was based on Tod Robbins' short story "Spurs". Director Browning took the exceptional step of casting real people with deformities as the eponymous sideshow "freaks," rather than using costumes and makeup; "Code of the Freaks": "If you offend one of them, you have offended them all"
Also mentioned in [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=F#freaks Gravity's Rainbow].

'''Frid, Jonathan''' 
233; Barnabas ... the vampire guy on ''Dark Shadows'', in Las Vegas, singing "Haunted Heart"

'''Fritz''' 
See Drybeam, Fritz

'''Fromme, Lynette "Squeaky" (b. 1948)''' 
283; American criminal, former member of the Manson Family, convicted of attempting to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford in 1975. She is currently serving a life sentence in prison; "righteous-ass bitch" 293

<div id="frootloops">'''Froot Loops'''</div>
Brand of breakfast cereal produced by Kelloggs. The cereal pieces are torus-shaped (hence "loops") and come in a variety of bright colors and a blend of artificial fruit flavors. Kellogg's introduced Froot Loops in 1963. Originally, there were red, orange, and yellow loops, but green, then purple, and finally blue were added by the 1990s; 308; A stoner treat, they are also eaten in Vineland.

''''fro pick''' 
3; An "Afro" pick, aka a comb for the Afro hairstyle; this doesn't mean Doc has an Afro, only that he borrowed one "for protection."

'''Frothingham, Rhus''' 
275; LA deputy DA with whom Penny Kimball shares a cubicle at the Hall of Justice; 282; [[Plants of Inherent Vice| See: Plants of Inherent Vice]]

'''Fuller, Buckminster ("Bucky") (1895-1983)''' 
62; an American architect, author, designer, futurist, inventor, and visionary. Fuller wrote more than thirty books, coining and popularizing terms such as "Spaceship Earth", ephemeralization, and synergetics. He also worked in the development of numerous inventions, chiefly in the fields of design and architecture, the best known of which is the geodesic dome. Carbon molecules known as fullerenes or buckyballs were named for their resemblance to geodesic spheres.251

'''Full Moon in Pisces''' 
241-242; song Lark is singing at the Kismet

'''Furies, the''' 
156; opening for Spotted Dick at FFO - 3 basses and no lead guitar

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

More info at [[Inherent Vice cover analysis]]

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

==Epigraph==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[[image:afro-pick.jpg|right|120px|thumb|caption|'fro pick]]''''fro pick in his baggies for protection''' 
An "Afro" pick, aka a comb for the Afro hairstyle; this doesn't necessarily mean Doc has an Afro, only that he borrowed one "for protection" as they generally had fairly sharp metal tines.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 11==
'''Sad but true, as Dion always sez.''' 
"Runaround Sue" ("Here's my story, it's sad but true...") was a 1961 hit for Dion DiMucci (b. 1939). Dion only sez it once, but then again he "said" it everytime the song was played. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c49klxPex-k Have a listen on YouTube...] 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Tomorrow is another day''' 
For those who don't mind spoilers, see [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_16#Page_281 later annotation].

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 15==
'''Olivetti Lettera 22''' 
A portable typewriter. See it [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivetti_Lettera_22 here]. Various sources, including Jules Siegel, note that Pynchon used an Olivetti Portable Typewriter.

==Page 16==
'''Black Guerrilla Family . . . George Jackson's outfit''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Guerrilla_Family The Black Guerrilla Family] was a prison gang founded in the mid-1960's by George Jackson in San Quentin prison.

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

==Page 17==
'''Watts . . . the riots''' 
In 1965, there was a widespread and brutal riot in the streets of Watts, CA. It lasted almost a week and resulted in several deaths and hundreds of injuries. Read more [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_riots here]. Pynchon wrote on the subject in his 1966 essay for the New York Times [http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/uncollected/watts.html A Journey Into The Mind of Watts]

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'''Waimea''' 
99; famed surfing location on Oahu's North Shore

'''Wabash Cannonball''' 
227; is an American folk song about a fictional train, thought to have originated sometime in the late nineteenth century [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabash_Cannonball]. The song is part of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll [http://www.rockhall.com/exhibithighlights/500-songs-by-name-wz/].

'''Wallach's Music City''' 
176; record store with "audition booths"; Wallach's was located on the northwest corner of Sunset and Vine in Los Angeles and had listening booths where you could go in a listen to records. It was opened by Glenn Wallichs (1910-1971) in 1940 and closed in 1978. In its time, it was the biggest record store in Los Angeles.

'''Walnut Creek''' 
188; "isn't a chakra"; Walnut Creek is a small San Francisco Bay Area city in Contra Costa County east of Oakland.

'''Warbling, Riggs''' 
61; Sloane's "spiritual coach"; in desert, 143; 144; at Arrepentimiento, 250

'''Warriors Against the Man Black Armed Militia (WAMBAM)''' 
292; Tariq Khalil's people on the outside (of prison)

'''Waste-a-Perp Target Range''' 
269; a civilian range "down off South La Brea" where Bigfoot practices in the UGH (Urban, Gang-related and Hippie) section

'''Watusi-ing''' 
The Watusi is a solo dance that enjoyed brief popularity during the early 1960s, almost as popular as the Twist. Its name came from the Batutsi tribe of Rwanda. It was popularized by the Orlons' hit single "The Wah Watusi" (1962); Penny Kimball, 6

'''Watts clambake''' 
195; a large-scale race riot which lasted 6 days in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, in August 1965, where 34 people were killed; 201;

'''Wavos''' 
12; 98; restaurant in Gordita Beach, Los Angeles. As mentioned in the page 12 annotations, the name is an anglicization of the Spanish ''huevos''. Maybe also a surf culture nickname for waves? Anyone concur?
Don't know if it's actually slang, but it's a pretty good joke from Pynchon: huevos-wavos-surfer restaurant.

'''Wayne, John (1907-1979)''' 
American film actor, director and producer. He epitomized rugged masculinity and has become an enduring American icon. He is famous for his distinctive voice, walk and height. He was also known for his conservative political views and his support in the 1950s for anti-communist positions; 334

'''"We Should Be Together"''' 
From the 1938 film ''Little Miss Broadway'', performed as a song and dance by Shirley Temple and George Murphy; 360; Sample lyric:

:You're a cup of coffee''' 
:You're a peachy pie''' 
:We should be together, you and I

'''Wee Kirk O' the Heather''' 
246; where Puck and Trillium get married, in Las Vegas; a real Wedding Chapel, it is touted as "the original Las Vegas Wedding Chapel" and has been in operation since 1940

'''Welk, Lawrence (1903-1992)''' 
257; a musician, accordionist, bandleader, and television impresario, hosting ''The Lawrence Welk Show'' from 1955 to 1982, his "champagne music" is considered wholesome, bland and mediocre; 260

'''"White Rabbit"''' 
156; 1967 acid-inspired hit for the Jefferson Airplane, on their ''Surrealistic Pillow'' LP

'''Wild Man Fischer (b.1944)''' 
155; Larry "Wild Man" Fischer was institutionalized at age 16 for attacking his mother with a knife, as was diagnosed with severe paranoid schizophrenia. After his release from a mental hospital, he wandered Los Angeles singing a unique brand of songs all his own. He was discovered by Frank Zappa who directed the recording of his first album, "An Evening with Wild Man Fischer" (1968).

'''"Wipe Out"''' 
101; Famous surf music song by the Surfaris. The original Dot label version of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH5WGWX4MPg "Wipe Out"] has the laughter on it that Zigzag and Flaco are arguing about, not the later, and less well-known, Decca re-recording. The song has a surprisingly tangled history worth reading about: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wipe_Out_%28song%29 Wikipedia]

'''''Wizard of Oz, The'' (1939)''' 
MGM-producted American musical-fantasy film mainly directed by Victor Fleming and based on the 1900 children’s novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. The film stars Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, and Frank Morgan. All of the sequences were filmed in three-strip Technicolor. The opening and closing credits, as well as the Kansas sequences, were both filmed in black and white and colored in a sepia tone. Sometimes color and sepia would be juxtaposed in the film within seconds of each other. The most dramatic switch occurs when Dorothy Gale lands in Oz; 286

'''Wolfmann, Michael Zachary ("Mickey")''' 
4; LA developer Shasta is seeing; sightings, 76; decides to give money away, 150; calls Tito Stavrou to pick him up at Chryskylodon, 184; Mob connections? 221; "the Mickey book" at the Kismet, 237; "putting up a whole city from scratch someday, out in the desert" 240; with Puck and Einar at the Kismet, 243; his change of heart, 252; '''M.Z.W.''' initials appear the same right-side-up & upside-down. 
See [http://www.lemurianconnection.com/en/about-mount-shasta.htm Mount Shasta and the Lemurian Connection]

'''Wolfmann, Sloane''' 
55; Mickey's wife

'''Wolfsburg''' 
193; Volkswagen Corporate Headquarters are located in Wolfsburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany

'''Womack, Droolin' Floyd''' 
51; fictional blues singer whose song "The Repossess Man" Doc hears on KQAS (kickass?) radio while driving

'''Wood, Evelyn''' 
211; creator of speedreading courses

'''Worthington, Cal''' 
9.

'''Wright, Rick (1943-2008)''' 
129; keyboard player in Pink Floyd

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

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

More info at [[Inherent Vice cover analysis]]

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

==Epigraph==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[[image:afro-pick.jpg|right|120px|thumb|caption|'fro pick]]''''fro pick in his baggies for protection''' 
An "Afro" pick, aka a comb for the Afro hairstyle; this doesn't necessarily mean Doc has an Afro, only that he borrowed one "for protection" as they generally had fairly sharp metal tines.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 11==
'''Sad but true, as Dion always sez.''' 
"Runaround Sue" ("Here's my story, it's sad but true...") was a 1961 hit for Dion DiMucci (b. 1939). Dion only sez it once, but then again he "said" it everytime the song was played. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c49klxPex-k Have a listen on YouTube...] 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Tomorrow is another day''' 
For those who don't mind spoilers, see [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_16#Page_281 later annotation].

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 15==
'''Olivetti Lettera 22''' 
A portable typewriter. See it [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivetti_Lettera_22 here]. Various sources, including Jules Siegel, note that Pynchon used an Olivetti Portable Typewriter.

==Page 16==
'''Black Guerrilla Family . . . George Jackson's outfit''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Guerrilla_Family The Black Guerrilla Family] was a prison gang founded in the mid-1960's by George Jackson in San Quentin prison.

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

==Page 17==
'''Watts . . . the riots''' 
In 1965, there was a widespread and brutal riot in the streets of Watts, CA. It lasted almost a week and resulted in several deaths and hundreds of injuries. Read more [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_riots here]. Pynchon wrote on the subject in his 1966 essay for the New York Times [http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/uncollected/watts.html A Journey Into The Mind of Watts]

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2010-04-24T23:48:34Z

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'''Palos Verdes''' 
A name often used to refer to a group of coastal cities on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in southwestern Los Angeles County. Palos Verdes Estates, Rancho Palos Verdes, Rolling Hills, and Rolling Hills Estates are the predominant cities in the area, with a part of San Pedro protruding on the eastern end of the peninsula. This affluent bedroom community is known for its dramatic views from the Palos Verdes Hills, schools, extensive horse trails, and high home prices; 5

'''paranoia''' 
27; 103; 116-117; in Boards mansion, 129; "dark crews" working for "the ancient forces of greed and fear" 130; "a guy can't ever be too paranoid" 149; LAPD and Wolfmann's abduction, 151; "travelers invisible to others" 172; "What I want to keep you away from is vast..." 210; "paranoid hippie bullshit" 214; 221; 227; 248; 257; Pepe's, about "agencies of command and control" 265, 268; higher power running the Viggies, 301; 318; 332

'''Parker Center''' 
204; See Glass House; 323

'''Parsons, Theophilus (1797-1882)''' 
91; "nineteenth-century commentator"; was Dane Professor of Law at Harvard from 1848 to 1870 and is remembered chiefly as the author of a series of useful legal treatises and some books in support of Swedenborgian doctrines.

'''Pasadena Freeway''' 
The Pasadena Freeway or Arroyo Seco Parkway is the first freeway in the U.S. state of California, connecting Los Angeles with Pasadena alongside the Arroyo Seco. It is notable not only for being the first, mostly opened in 1940, but for representing the transitional phase between early parkways and modern freeways; 3

'''Patek Philippe watch''' 
348; Since 1868, Swiss luxury watch manufacture located in Geneva and the Vallée de Joux. Patek Philippe watches have enjoyed great demand among discerning collectors and watch connoisseurs of high social status and wealth.

'''P-DIDdies''' 
122; 292; During the 1960s the Los Angeles Police Department created the Public Disorder Intelligence Division (PDID). PDID vigilanty practiced spying & surveillance and kept extensive secret files on public officials and prominent civilians. The department was accused of numerous abuses involving how those files were used after then-LAPD Detective Jay S. Paul was found to have stored more than 100 boxes of sensitive dossiers in his home and garage and shared some of the material with right-wing individuals and groups, and was disbanded in 1983, replaced by an Anti-Terrorist Division; "P-DIDdies" perhaps riffs on rapper Sean Combs' stage name, P-Diddy; 295

'''Pearls Before Swine''' 
American psychedelic folk band formed by Tom Rapp in 1965 in Eau Gallie, now part of Melbourne, Florida. They released six albums between 1967 and 1971; T-shirt, 121

'''Penny''' 
See [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=K Kimball, Penny]

'''Pepe''' 
264; El Drano's roommate

'''Petunia''' 
see [[L#petunia|Leeward, Petunia]]

'''Pierce, Webb (1921-1991)''' 
One of the most popular American honky tonk vocalists of the 1950s, charting more number one hits than any other country artist during the decade. For many, Pierce, with his flamboyant Nudie suits and twin silver dollar-lined convertibles became the most recognizable face of country music of the era and its excesses. His "There Stands The Glass" is an iconic country drinking song; 225

'''Pink Floyd''' 
English rock band, formed in 1965, who initially earned recognition for their psychedelic and space rock music, and later, as they evolved, for their progressive rock music. Their first album, ''Piper at the Gates of Dawn'' was almost entirely written by Syd Barrett (1946-2006) who also played guitar and was lead vocalist. "Interstellar Overdrive," an approx 12-minute space-jam, was on the Floyd's first album. However, Syd quickly devolved into insanity, some say due to his prodigious use of psychedelic drugs, and he was almost entirely absent from the second album on; Rick Wright, 129; "Interstellar Overdrive" 299

'''Pink's''' 
155; hot dog place on La Brea; 312

'''pinner''' 
191; a very skinny joint

'''Pipeline Pizza''' 
10-11; in the 'honky-tonk part of town'; Tuesday is 'Cheap Pizza Nite, when any size pizza, with anything on it, cost a flat $1.35'; one of Doc's hangouts in Gordita Beach, where he doesn't recognize anybody, 256

'''"Pipeline"''' 
124; 1963 surf tune by The Chantays

'''Pixley, Mrs.''' 
148; owner of Knucklehead Jack's

'''Pizza Man''' 
366; where Sparky at Gotcha! usually orders post-midnight dinners; [http://www.pizzamandelivers.com/ Pizza Man] - He Delivers since 1964

'''Plastic Nickel''' 
293;

'''Polaroids''' 
3; 42; 162

'''Popeye and Bluto''' 
326; Cartoon nemeses who fight for the affection of Olive Oyl.

'''Porfirio''' 
306; Chief cook on the ''Golden Fang'' who helps Shasta escape

'''porte cochere''' 
125; 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]

'''Portola, the''' 
342; Crocker Fenway's club, near Elysian Park

'''Portola expedition''' 
The Portola expedition, led by Gaspar de Portolà from July 14, 1769 to January 24, 1770, was the first known recorded attempt by Spain to explore Alta California by land. The purpose of the expedition was to secure bases in Upper California before the Russians; mural depicting, 343

'''''Postman Always Rings Twice, The'' (1946)''' 
''Film noir'' drama based on the 1934 ''The Postman Always Rings Twice'' novel by James M. Cain. This adaptation of the novel is the best known, featuring Lana Turner and John Garfield; Doc's suit, 344

'''Poteet, Sledge''' 
15; referred Tariq Khalil to Doc who "helped him out of a situation back in '67"

'''Prescott''' 
199; Arthur Tweedle's neighbor, "another countersubversive hobbyist"

'''Presley, Elvis (1935-1977)''' 
American singer and actor. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as Elvis and is also sometimes referred to as The King of Rock 'n' Roll or The King; 232; "Viva Las Vegas" 234; 243; reference to "All Shook Up" (1957): "Who do you thank when you have such luck? I'm in love, I'm all shook up"

'''Price of Wisdom''' 
276; "gourmet health-food joint off of Melrose" where Penny Kimball and Doc go;

'''''Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The''''' 
204; a 1969 film, based on the novel of same name. It is remembered for Maggie Smith's performance in the title role, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress.

'''Princess phone''' 
142; 147;

'''Prussia, Adrian''' 
183; one of Tito Stavrou's creditors, a loan shark; Puck Beaverton worked for him, 212; 267; holding loans to LAPD officers, 269; prime suspect in a number of homicides "and each time, upon intervention from the highest levels, he's walked" 272; "strange history with the California Public Code" 283; hit man, 320; "dropped like an acid tab into the mouth of Time" 327

'''Pukalani''' 
306; in Maui, where Shasta runs into Flip after escaping; "Pukalani" is Hawaiian for "Heavenly Gates"

'''PV''' 
143; Palos Verdes

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2010-04-24T23:43:06Z

Georgeman:

'''Palos Verdes''' 
A name often used to refer to a group of coastal cities on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in southwestern Los Angeles County. Palos Verdes Estates, Rancho Palos Verdes, Rolling Hills, and Rolling Hills Estates are the predominant cities in the area, with a part of San Pedro protruding on the eastern end of the peninsula. This affluent bedroom community is known for its dramatic views from the Palos Verdes Hills, schools, extensive horse trails, and high home prices; 5

'''paranoia''' 
27; 103; 116-117; in Boards mansion, 129; "dark crews" working for "the ancient forces of greed and fear" 130; "a guy can't ever be too paranoid" 149; LAPD and Wolfmann's abduction, 151; "travelers invisible to others" 172; "What I want to keep you away from is vast..." 210; "paranoid hippie bullshit" 214; 221; 227; 248; 257; Pepe's, about "agencies of command and control" 265, 268; higher power running the Viggies, 301; 318; 332

'''Parker Center''' 
204; See Glass House; 323

'''Parsons, Theophilus (1797-1882)''' 
91; "nineteenth-century commentator"; was Dane Professor of Law at Harvard from 1848 to 1870 and is remembered chiefly as the author of a series of useful legal treatises and some books in support of Swedenborgian doctrines.

'''Pasadena Freeway''' 
The Pasadena Freeway or Arroyo Seco Parkway is the first freeway in the U.S. state of California, connecting Los Angeles with Pasadena alongside the Arroyo Seco. It is notable not only for being the first, mostly opened in 1940, but for representing the transitional phase between early parkways and modern freeways; 3

'''Patek Philippe watch''' 
348; Since 1868, Swiss luxury watch manufacture located in Geneva and the Vallée de Joux. Patek Philippe watches have enjoyed great demand among discerning collectors and watch connoisseurs of high social status and wealth.

'''P-DIDdies''' 
122; 292; During the 1960s the Los Angeles Police Department created the Public Disorder Intelligence Division (PDID). PDID vigilanty practiced spying & surveillance and kept extensive secret files on public officials and prominent civilians. The department was accused of numerous abuses involving how those files were used after then-LAPD Detective Jay S. Paul was found to have stored more than 100 boxes of sensitive dossiers in his home and garage and shared some of the material with right-wing individuals and groups, and was disbanded in 1983, replaced by an Anti-Terrorist Division; "P-DIDdies" perhaps riffs on rapper Sean Combs' stage name, P-Diddy; 295

'''Pearls Before Swine''' 
American psychedelic folk band formed by Tom Rapp in 1965 in Eau Gallie, now part of Melbourne, Florida. They released six albums between 1967 and 1971; T-shirt, 121

'''Penny''' 
See [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=K Kimball, Penny]

'''Pepe''' 
264; El Drano's roommate

'''Petunia''' 
see [[L#petunia|Leeward, Petunia]]

'''Pierce, Webb (1921-1991)''' 
One of the most popular American honky tonk vocalists of the 1950s, charting more number one hits than any other country artist during the decade. For many, Pierce, with his flamboyant Nudie suits and twin silver dollar-lined convertibles became the most recognizable face of country music of the era and its excesses. His "There Stands The Glass" is an iconic country drinking song; 225

'''Pink Floyd''' 
English rock band, formed in 1965, who initially earned recognition for their psychedelic and space rock music, and later, as they evolved, for their progressive rock music. Their first album, ''Piper at the Gates of Dawn'' was almost entirely written by Syd Barrett (1946-2006) who also played guitar and was lead vocalist. "Interstellar Overdrive," an approx 12-minute space-jam, was on the Floyd's first album. However, Syd quickly devolved into insanity, some say due to his prodigious use of psychedelic drugs, and he was almost entirely absent from the second album on; Rick Wright, 129; "Interstellar Overdrive" 299

'''Pink's''' 
155; hot dog place on La Brea; 312

'''pinner''' 
191; a very skinny joint

'''Pipeline Pizza''' 
256; one of Doc's hangouts in Gordita Beach, where he doesn't recognize anybody

'''"Pipeline"''' 
124; 1963 surf tune by The Chantays

'''Pixley, Mrs.''' 
148; owner of Knucklehead Jack's

'''Pizza Man''' 
366; where Sparky at Gotcha! usually orders post-midnight dinners; [http://www.pizzamandelivers.com/ Pizza Man] - He Delivers since 1964

'''Plastic Nickel''' 
293;

'''Polaroids''' 
3; 42; 162

'''Popeye and Bluto''' 
326; Cartoon nemeses who fight for the affection of Olive Oyl.

'''Porfirio''' 
306; Chief cook on the ''Golden Fang'' who helps Shasta escape

'''porte cochere''' 
125; 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]

'''Portola, the''' 
342; Crocker Fenway's club, near Elysian Park

'''Portola expedition''' 
The Portola expedition, led by Gaspar de Portolà from July 14, 1769 to January 24, 1770, was the first known recorded attempt by Spain to explore Alta California by land. The purpose of the expedition was to secure bases in Upper California before the Russians; mural depicting, 343

'''''Postman Always Rings Twice, The'' (1946)''' 
''Film noir'' drama based on the 1934 ''The Postman Always Rings Twice'' novel by James M. Cain. This adaptation of the novel is the best known, featuring Lana Turner and John Garfield; Doc's suit, 344

'''Poteet, Sledge''' 
15; referred Tariq Khalil to Doc who "helped him out of a situation back in '67"

'''Prescott''' 
199; Arthur Tweedle's neighbor, "another countersubversive hobbyist"

'''Presley, Elvis (1935-1977)''' 
American singer and actor. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as Elvis and is also sometimes referred to as The King of Rock 'n' Roll or The King; 232; "Viva Las Vegas" 234; 243; reference to "All Shook Up" (1957): "Who do you thank when you have such luck? I'm in love, I'm all shook up"

'''Price of Wisdom''' 
276; "gourmet health-food joint off of Melrose" where Penny Kimball and Doc go;

'''''Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The''''' 
204; a 1969 film, based on the novel of same name. It is remembered for Maggie Smith's performance in the title role, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress.

'''Princess phone''' 
142; 147;

'''Prussia, Adrian''' 
183; one of Tito Stavrou's creditors, a loan shark; Puck Beaverton worked for him, 212; 267; holding loans to LAPD officers, 269; prime suspect in a number of homicides "and each time, upon intervention from the highest levels, he's walked" 272; "strange history with the California Public Code" 283; hit man, 320; "dropped like an acid tab into the mouth of Time" 327

'''Pukalani''' 
306; in Maui, where Shasta runs into Flip after escaping; "Pukalani" is Hawaiian for "Heavenly Gates"

'''PV''' 
143; Palos Verdes

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'''lagan''' 
267; goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered, or simply goods or materials found or left on the sea floor.

'''Lagonda''' 
71; at coroner's office

'''L'Amour, Louis (1908-1988)''' 
American author. L'Amour's books, primarily Western fiction (though he called his work 'Frontier Stories'), remain popular, and most have gone through multiple printings; 148

'''Landers, Ann''' 
Pen name created by ''Chicago Sun-Times'' advice columnist Ruth Crowley in 1943 and taken over by Eppie Friedman in 1955. For 56 years, the ''Ask Ann Landers'' syndicated advice column was a regular feature in many newspapers across North America. Due to this popularity, 'Ann Landers', though fictional, became something of a national institution and cultural icon; 215

'''Land of the Pygmies''' 
336; Doc asks Kahuna Airlines to this destination

'''Lark''' 
237; "presentable young lady in a paisley minidress and white plastic boots" at the Kismet in Las Vegas

'''laterite''' 
104; Soil layer rich in iron oxide, formed in tropical and sub-tropical regions. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laterite Wikipedia page]

'''Laurel, Stan (1890-1965)''' 
English comic actor, writer and director, famous as the first half of the comedy double-act Laurel and Hardy, whose career stretched from the silent films of the early 20th century until post-World War II; 246; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Laurel Wikipedia entry]

'''Lawrence of Arabia (1888-1935)''' 
Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence CB, DSO, known professionally as T. E. Lawrence, was a British officer renowned especially for his liaison role during the Arab Revolt of 1916–18. His vivid writings, along with the extraordinary breadth and variety of his activities and associations, have made him the object of fascination throughout the world as Lawrence of Arabia, a title popularised by the 1962 film'' Lawrence of Arabia'' based on his life; 191

'''Laszlo and Ilsa''' 
Humphrey Bogard, as Rick Blaine, in the 1942 film ''Casablanca'' helps Victor Laszlo, a Czech resistance leader, escape from the Nazis and in the process falls in love with Laszlo's wife, Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman), with whom he'd been involved before she met and married Laszlo. In the end, Ilsa and Laszlo leave Casablanca on a plane, and Rick stays behind; 360

'''Leej''' 
104; See [[S#sortilege|Sortilege]]

<div id="petunia">'''Leeway, Petunia'''</div>
13; "a stunner in a starched cap and micro-length medical outfit" who sort of does reception for Doc and Dr. Buddy Tubeside; 76; 145; "interesting bruise" on her leg, 197; 287; pregnant by her husband Dizzy, 360[[Plants of Inherent Vice| See: Plants of Inherent Vice]]

'''Lefty''' 
44; bassist in Beer

<div id="lemuria">'''Lemuria,''' </div>
Hypothetical "lost land" variously located in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The concept's 19th century origins lie in attempts to account for discontinuities in biogeography however, the scientific concept of Lemuria has been rendered obsolete by modern understanding of plate tectonics. Although sunken continents do exist, there is no known geological formation under the Indian or Pacific Oceans that corresponds to the hypothetical Lemuria; "Atlantis of the Pacific" 101; 105; 109; "It isn't just a place" 167; "dark metallic gray promontory" in downtown LA, 315; "risen and redeemed" (in Doc's dream), 341; California as an ark for those escaping Lemuria, 352; See [http://www.lemurianconnection.com/en/about-mount-shasta.htm Mount Shasta and the Lemurian Connection]

Lemuria also appears in [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=L#lemuria ''Gravity's Rainbow''].

Also, there is a connection between Mt Shasta, Lemuria, and the legend of the 'Wolf Man':

"Before 18,000 BCE, Lemuria was a large continent in the Pacific whose islands were controlled by pirates. An Atlantean named Kull was enslaved by Lemurian pirates and forced to work as a gladiator, where he faced a Wolf Man. Forging an alliance with that Wolf Man, he later slew the wizard Rotath for the Lemurian monarch Asphodel IV."

[http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Lemuria Lemuria at Marvel Comics]

And, here's s reported sighting of Bigfoot on Mt Shasta:

[http://www.bigfootencounters.com/articles/mtshasta.htm Bigfoot: Sasquatch Creature seen on Mt. Shasta in California 1976]

Is this the right place to mention how significant it is that Mickey Wolfmann reportedly gets upset when people don't spell his surname with a double 'n' at the end?

'''Leo Carrillo''' 
78; Leo Carrillo State Park [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Carrillo_State_Park Wikipedia] near Malibu, named after California native and conservationist Leo Carrillo [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0140504/ IMDB], famous character actor who played Pancho on ''The Cisco Kid.''

'''Lester''' 
66; riding with Bigfoot at Wolfmann residence

'''''Let's Make a Deal'' (1963-1976)''' 
Television game show which originated in the United States and has since been produced in many countries throughout the world. The show was based around deals offered to members of the audience by the host. The contestants usually had to weigh the possibility of an offer being for a valuable prize, or an undesirable item, referred to as a "zonk". The show was hosted for many years by Monty Hall; 47, 253

'''Lewton, Val (1904-1951)''' 
American film producer and screenwriter, who is best known for a sequence of nine brooding horror films he produced for RKO Pictures in the 1940s; ''I Walked with a Zombie'' (1943), 261

'''Liberace (1919-1987)''' 
Wladziu Valentino Liberace, better known by only his last name Liberace was a famous American entertainer and pianist of Polish and Italian descent. During the 1950s–1970s (when Elvis Presley and The Beatles were at the height of their popularity), he was the highest paid entertainer in the world; his "necktie covered with thousands ... of magenta and green sequins in a piano-keyboard pattern" 220; 344

'''Lighthouse Cafe, the''' 
297; Coy Harlingen spotted there by Scott Oof

'''Li'l T-Rex''' 
183; one of Tito Stavrou's creditors

'''lingonberries''' 
208; Swedish pancakes with; the ''Vaccinium vitis-idaea'' &151; often called lingonberry and also called cowberry, foxberry, mountain cranberry, csejka berry, red whortleberry, lowbush cranberry, mountain bilberry, partridgeberry.

'''Linus's Tavern''' 
354; where Doc meets Sauncho to observe the ''Golden Fang''; 359

'''Little Anthony & the Imperials''' 
300; Little Anthony & The Imperials is a rhythm and blues/soul/doo-wop vocal group from New York, first active in the 1950s. "Tears on My Pillow" (1958) was their first hit single. Sample lyric:

:If we could start anew, I wouldn't hesitate 
:I'd gladly take you back, and tempt the hand of fate 
:Tears on my pillow, pain in my heart, caused by you

'''Liv-a-Snaps''' 
195; a brand of dog food

'''Locard's Exchange Principle''' 
Locard's principle is applied to crime scenes in which the perpetrator(s) of a crime comes into contact with the scene, so the perpetrator(s) will both bring something into the scene and leave with something from the scene. Every contact leaves a trace; "every contact leaves traces" 213

'''Long Branch Saloon''' 
254; the saloon where Miss Kitty worked, in the TV series ''Gunsmoke'' (1955-1975) was a western which took part in Dodge City, Kansas

'''Loosemeat, Leonard Jermaine''' 
264; aka El Drano, found dead

'''Lourdes and Motella''' 
See [[R#lourdes|Rodriguez, Lourdes]] and [[H#motella|Haywood, Motella]]

'''Lunchwater case''' 
25; "one more of the squalid matrimonials that were occupying Doc's time"

'''Lupino, Ida (1918-1995)''' 
59; Anglo-American actress and director, self-described as "the poor man's Bette Davis"; Pynchon trivia: she directed the pilot episode of ''Gilligan's Island''.

'''Luz''' 
59; "presentable young Chicana" maid at Wolfmann's; contacts Doc, 142;

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'''Taco Bell''' 
197; fastfood chain of inexpensive Mexican food restaurants

'''Tate, Sharon (1943-1969)''' 
48; Actress and wife of Roman Polanski, murdered by the Manson Family in 1969

'''"Tears on My Pillow"''' 
300: Reference to it: "tempt the hand of fate"; released in 1958, it was Little Anthony & the Imperials first hit and contains the line "I'd gladly take you back, and tempt the hand of fate."

'''Teke''' 
182; Greek restaurant where Doc and Tito eat

'''"Telstar"''' 
124; 1962 instrumental by The Tornados

'''Temple, Shirley (b. 1928)''' 
Known for most of her adult life by her married name, Shirley Temple Black, she is an American actress, singer, and tap dancer, who is best known for being an iconic American child actress of the 1930s. After her film achievements she began a notable career as a diplomat; singing "We Should Be Together" from ''Little Miss Broadway'' (1938)

'''"Tequila"''' 
125; 1958 rock instrumental by The Champs

'''Tex-Mecca''' 
221; Taqueria in Las Vegas where Doc and Trillium go

'''Tex Wiener École de Pilotage''' 
134; Tex Wiener first appears in ''Vineland'' (p. 361), where he is introduced as one of Sasha's many romantic interests. The French term "École de Pilotage" can both mean "flight school" and "driving school." In ''Vineland'' Tex wears a "bright silver custom jumpsuit," cultivating the impression that he is a pilot, but it seems that Doc has merely been attending driving school.

'''"That's Amore"''' 
1952 song by composer Harry Warren and lyricist Jack Brooks. It became a major hit and signature song for Dean Martin in 1953. ''Amore'' means "love" in Italian, giving a general traslation in English "that's love." It begins, "When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie that's amore."

'''Thorndyke''' 
153; Aubrey's "coadjutor" biker

'''Three Stooges''' 
American vaudeville and comedy act of the early to mid–20th century best known for their numerous short subject films. Their hallmark was physical slapstick comedy punctuated by quickly-delivered one-liners, within outrageous storylines. The original three were Larry, Moe and Curly; 198

'''Threeply, Dr.''' 
187; at Chryskylodon

'''Thunderclap Newman''' 
Late 1960s One-hit wonder band from the UK. Their single, "Something in the Air", was a 1969 UK Number One hit. The band was formed by the Who's Pete Townsend as a vehicle for the Who's former roadie, John "Speedy" Keen's songs. Keen wrote "Armenia City in the Sky" on the Who's ''The Who Sell Out'' album (1967). Townsend played bass under the pseudonym Bijou Drains; "Something in the Air" 356

'''''Tiatimo meraki''''' 
249; song by Roza Eskenazi

'''''Time Tunnel, The''''' 
A 1966–1967 U.S. color science fiction TV series, starring James Darren; 261

'''Tiny Tim (1932-1996)''' 
Herbert Khaury, better known by the stage name Tiny Tim, was an American singer, ukulele player, and musical archivist. He was most famous for his rendition of "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" sung in a distinctive high falsetto / vibrato voice (his normal singing voice was baritone). He was generally thought of as a novelty act, though his records display a wide knowledge of American songs; "The Ice Caps Are Melting" (from his 1968 debut album), 108. He's also mentioned on pg. 309 of ''Vineland''.

'''Tito''' 
see [[S#tito| Stavrou, Tito]]

'''Todos Santos''' 
99; famed surfing location in Baja Mexico

'''''toloache''''' 
Scientific name is ''Datura inoxia'', native to Central and South America. The Aztecs called the plant ''toloatzin'', and used it long before the Spanish conquest of Mexico for many therapeutic purposes, such as poultices for wounds where it acts as an anodyne. Although the Aztecs warned against madness and "various and vain imaginings", many native Americans have used the plant as an entheogen for hallucinations and rites of passage; Indians smoking it, 355;

'''Tommy's''' 
73; burger joint in Los Angeles where Krishna the fry cook provides joints in the burgers, for a bit extra

'''Tommy James & the Shondells''' 
165; their biggest hits were "Crimson and Clover" (1968) and "I Think We're Along Now" (1967); named after guitarist Troy Shondell, a hero of Tommy James's.

'''Trashmen, The''' 
Rock 'n' roll band formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1962. The group played surf rock which included many elements from garage rock; 37; "Surfin' Bird" (1963), 124

'''Tropicana Motel''' 
273; located at 8585 Santa Monica Blvd in West Hollywood, and torn down in 1980, it was where many rock stars stayed in Los Angeles.

'''Trumbo, Dalton (1905-1976)''' 
254; an American screenwriter and novelist, and one of the Hollywood Ten, a group of film professionals who testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947 during the committee's investigation of Communist influences in the motion picture industry. He refused to give any information and was convicted of contempt of Congress, blacklisted, and in 1950, spent 11 months in prison in the federal penitentiary in Ashland, Kentucky.

'''TRW''' 
54; See "Ramo isn't telling Woolridge"

'''Tubb, Ernest''' 
225; country-western singer

'''Tubeside, Dr. Buddy''' 
13; with whom Doc shares an office "near the airport, off East Imperial"; injects patients with 'Vitamin B12', a euphemism for his own blend of amphetamines; [[L#petunia|Petunia Leeway]] is his nurse; 289; 360

'''Tujunga Wash''' 
136; a stream in Los Angeles County, California. It is a tributary of the Los Angeles River. It is called a wash because it is usually dry, especially the lower reaches, only carrying significant flows during and after storms, which usually only occur between November and April.

'''Tweedle, Arthur''' 
199; "civilian machinist who worked a regular day shift at the naval weapons stations" and is a member of Vigilant California

'''Tweedle, Cindi''' 
200; Arthur's wife

'''Twong, Zigzag''' 
100; surfer in Gordita Beach who had switched to a shorter surf board

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'''lagan''' 
267; goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered, or simply goods or materials found or left on the sea floor.

'''Lagonda''' 
71; at coroner's office

'''L'Amour, Louis (1908-1988)''' 
American author. L'Amour's books, primarily Western fiction (though he called his work 'Frontier Stories'), remain popular, and most have gone through multiple printings; 148

'''Landers, Ann''' 
Pen name created by ''Chicago Sun-Times'' advice columnist Ruth Crowley in 1943 and taken over by Eppie Friedman in 1955. For 56 years, the ''Ask Ann Landers'' syndicated advice column was a regular feature in many newspapers across North America. Due to this popularity, 'Ann Landers', though fictional, became something of a national institution and cultural icon; 215

'''Land of the Pygmies''' 
336; Doc asks Kahuna Airlines to this destination

'''Lark''' 
237; "presentable young lady in a paisley minidress and white plastic boots" at the Kismet in Las Vegas

'''laterite''' 
104; Soil layer rich in iron oxide, formed in tropical and sub-tropical regions. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laterite Wikipedia page]

'''Laurel, Stan (1890-1965)''' 
English comic actor, writer and director, famous as the first half of the comedy double-act Laurel and Hardy, whose career stretched from the silent films of the early 20th century until post-World War II; 246; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Laurel Wikipedia entry]

'''Lawrence of Arabia (1888-1935)''' 
Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence CB, DSO, known professionally as T. E. Lawrence, was a British officer renowned especially for his liaison role during the Arab Revolt of 1916–18. His vivid writings, along with the extraordinary breadth and variety of his activities and associations, have made him the object of fascination throughout the world as Lawrence of Arabia, a title popularised by the 1962 film'' Lawrence of Arabia'' based on his life; 191

'''Laszlo and Ilsa''' 
Humphrey Bogard, as Rick Blaine, in the 1942 film ''Casablanca'' helps Victor Laszlo, a Czech resistance leader, escape from the Nazis and in the process falls in love with Laszlo's wife, Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman), with whom he'd been involved before she met and married Laszlo. In the end, Ilsa and Laszlo leave Casablanca on a plane, and Rick stays behind; 360

'''Leej''' 
104; See [[S#sortilege|Sortilege]]

<div id="petunia">'''Leeway, Petunia'''</div>
13; "a stunner in a starched cap and micro-length medical outfit" who sort of does reception for Doc and Dr. Buddy Tubeside; 145; [[Plants of Inherent Vice| See: Plants of Inherent Vice]]

'''Lefty''' 
44; bassist in Beer

<div id="lemuria">'''Lemuria,''' </div>
Hypothetical "lost land" variously located in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The concept's 19th century origins lie in attempts to account for discontinuities in biogeography however, the scientific concept of Lemuria has been rendered obsolete by modern understanding of plate tectonics. Although sunken continents do exist, there is no known geological formation under the Indian or Pacific Oceans that corresponds to the hypothetical Lemuria; "Atlantis of the Pacific" 101; 105; 109; "It isn't just a place" 167; "dark metallic gray promontory" in downtown LA, 315; "risen and redeemed" (in Doc's dream), 341; California as an ark for those escaping Lemuria, 352; See [http://www.lemurianconnection.com/en/about-mount-shasta.htm Mount Shasta and the Lemurian Connection]

Lemuria also appears in [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=L#lemuria ''Gravity's Rainbow''].

Also, there is a connection between Mt Shasta, Lemuria, and the legend of the 'Wolf Man':

"Before 18,000 BCE, Lemuria was a large continent in the Pacific whose islands were controlled by pirates. An Atlantean named Kull was enslaved by Lemurian pirates and forced to work as a gladiator, where he faced a Wolf Man. Forging an alliance with that Wolf Man, he later slew the wizard Rotath for the Lemurian monarch Asphodel IV."

[http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Lemuria Lemuria at Marvel Comics]

And, here's s reported sighting of Bigfoot on Mt Shasta:

[http://www.bigfootencounters.com/articles/mtshasta.htm Bigfoot: Sasquatch Creature seen on Mt. Shasta in California 1976]

Is this the right place to mention how significant it is that Mickey Wolfmann reportedly gets upset when people don't spell his surname with a double 'n' at the end?

'''Leo Carrillo''' 
78; Leo Carrillo State Park [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Carrillo_State_Park Wikipedia] near Malibu, named after California native and conservationist Leo Carrillo [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0140504/ IMDB], famous character actor who played Pancho on ''The Cisco Kid.''

'''Lester''' 
66; riding with Bigfoot at Wolfmann residence

'''''Let's Make a Deal'' (1963-1976)''' 
Television game show which originated in the United States and has since been produced in many countries throughout the world. The show was based around deals offered to members of the audience by the host. The contestants usually had to weigh the possibility of an offer being for a valuable prize, or an undesirable item, referred to as a "zonk". The show was hosted for many years by Monty Hall; 47, 253

'''Lewton, Val (1904-1951)''' 
American film producer and screenwriter, who is best known for a sequence of nine brooding horror films he produced for RKO Pictures in the 1940s; ''I Walked with a Zombie'' (1943), 261

'''Liberace (1919-1987)''' 
Wladziu Valentino Liberace, better known by only his last name Liberace was a famous American entertainer and pianist of Polish and Italian descent. During the 1950s–1970s (when Elvis Presley and The Beatles were at the height of their popularity), he was the highest paid entertainer in the world; his "necktie covered with thousands ... of magenta and green sequins in a piano-keyboard pattern" 220; 344

'''Lighthouse Cafe, the''' 
297; Coy Harlingen spotted there by Scott Oof

'''Li'l T-Rex''' 
183; one of Tito Stavrou's creditors

'''lingonberries''' 
208; Swedish pancakes with; the ''Vaccinium vitis-idaea'' &151; often called lingonberry and also called cowberry, foxberry, mountain cranberry, csejka berry, red whortleberry, lowbush cranberry, mountain bilberry, partridgeberry.

'''Linus's Tavern''' 
354; where Doc meets Sauncho to observe the ''Golden Fang''; 359

'''Little Anthony & the Imperials''' 
300; Little Anthony & The Imperials is a rhythm and blues/soul/doo-wop vocal group from New York, first active in the 1950s. "Tears on My Pillow" (1958) was their first hit single. Sample lyric:

:If we could start anew, I wouldn't hesitate 
:I'd gladly take you back, and tempt the hand of fate 
:Tears on my pillow, pain in my heart, caused by you

'''Liv-a-Snaps''' 
195; a brand of dog food

'''Locard's Exchange Principle''' 
Locard's principle is applied to crime scenes in which the perpetrator(s) of a crime comes into contact with the scene, so the perpetrator(s) will both bring something into the scene and leave with something from the scene. Every contact leaves a trace; "every contact leaves traces" 213

'''Long Branch Saloon''' 
254; the saloon where Miss Kitty worked, in the TV series ''Gunsmoke'' (1955-1975) was a western which took part in Dodge City, Kansas

'''Loosemeat, Leonard Jermaine''' 
264; aka El Drano, found dead

'''Lourdes and Motella''' 
See [[R#lourdes|Rodriguez, Lourdes]] and [[H#motella|Haywood, Motella]]

'''Lunchwater case''' 
25; "one more of the squalid matrimonials that were occupying Doc's time"

'''Lupino, Ida (1918-1995)''' 
59; Anglo-American actress and director, self-described as "the poor man's Bette Davis"; Pynchon trivia: she directed the pilot episode of ''Gilligan's Island''.

'''Luz''' 
59; "presentable young Chicana" maid at Wolfmann's; contacts Doc, 142;

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'''Dagwood and Mr. Dithers''' 
Dagwood Bumstead is a main character in the long-running comic strip Blondie. He first appeared sometime prior to February 17, 1933. He was originally heir to the Bumstead Locomotive fortune, but was disowned when he married a flapper (originally known as Blondie Boopadoop) whom his family saw as below his class. He has since worked hard at J.C. Dithers & Company (currently as the construction company's office manager) to support his family; 326

'''Dale, Dick''' (b. 1937) 
Surf rock guitarist, known as "The King Of The Surf Guitar". He experimented with reverberation and made use of custom made Fender amplifiers, including the first-ever 100-watt amp.36; the original surf guitarist, 36

'''''Dark Shadows''''' 
128; Gothic soap opera that originally aired weekdays on the ABC television network, from June 27, 1966 to April 2, 1971. In addition to vampires, ''Dark Shadows'' featured werewolves, ghosts, zombies, man-made monsters, witches, warlocks, time travel (both into the past and into the future), and a parallel universe; Japonica humming theme, 176; Jonathan Frid, 233

'''Darren, James "Moondoggie" (b. 1936)''' 
Originally a teen idol, in the early 1960s, Darren is an American television and film actor, television director, and singer. He played Moondoggie in ''Gidget'' (1961), a film about surfers etc.; ; in ''The Time Tunnel'', 261

'''Davis, Ruth Elizabeth "Bette"''' 
10; Davis (1908-1989) was an American actress of film, television and theatre. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres--from contemporary crime melodramas to historical and period films and occasional comedies, though her greatest successes were her roles in romantic dramas. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice and in 1999 placed second, after Katharine Hepburn, on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest female stars of all time.

'''Davis, Sammy''' (1925-1990) 
American actor, comedian, singer, dancer, impressionist and musician, who remains known for being a member of the 'Rat Pack' of entertainers of the Fifties and Sixties, including Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Joey Bishop and Peter Lawford; watching Jonathan Frid in Las Vegas, 233

'''Dawnette''' 
148; Boris Spivey's "fiancee" in Pico Rivera; 152; missing, 215

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

'''dealer's shoe''' 
241; A dealing shoe or dealer's shoe is a gaming device, mainly used in casinos, to hold multiple decks of playing cards.

'''Dear Abby''' 
Dear Abby is the name of the notable advice column founded in 1956 by Pauline Phillips under the pen name, Abigail Van Buren, and carried on today by her daughter, Jeanne Phillips, who now owns the legal rights to the pen name. According to Pauline Phillips, she came up with the pen name, Abigail Van Buren, by combining the name of a biblical figure, Abigail in the Book of Samuel, with the last name of former U.S. President Martin Van Buren; 3

'''Denis''' 
10; Doc's neighbor 'from down the hill'; everybody pronounces his name to rhyme with 'penis'; reminiscent of Cheech; 124; attended Leuzinger High, 168; fire from smoking joint in bed, 296; 339

'''"Desafinado"''' 
160; written by Antonio Carlos Jobim, it was a 1962 hit for Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd; Spanish for "slightly out of tune"

'''Dick Tracy Junior G-Man''' 
277; Dick Tracy long-running comic strip featuring a popular and familiar character in American pop culture, created by Chester Gould. He is a hard-hitting, fast-shooting, and supremely intelligent police detective who has matched wits with a variety of colorful villains, many based on real-life gangsters. Junior G-Man clubs were for those kids who wanted to join the FBI instead of the Boy Scouts.

'''Dietz & Schwartz''' 
160; "Alone Together" (1932); It was introduced in the Broadway musical ''Flying Colors'' in 1932 by Jean Sargent. The first jazz version was by Artie Shaw in 1939; "Haunted Heart" 233

'''Dion (b. 1939)''' 
Dion DiMucci is an American singer-songwriter who blended elements of doo-wop, pop, and R&B styles; "Runaround Sue" ("Here's my story, it's sad but true..."), 11

'''Dizzy''' 
360; Petunia's husband, a bass player

'''DOA''' 
210: Dead on Arrival

'''Doheny-McAdoo era''' 
This would be the 1920s. William Gibbs McAdoo (1863-1941) took a payment of $25,000 from oil executive Edward Doheny (1856-1935), an American oil tycoon, in connection with the Teapot Dome scandal, but returned it once he discovered Doheny's links with Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall. McAdoo, Woodrow Wilson's son-in-law and the leading contender for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1924, had served as an attorney for Doheny's oil businesses; 343

'''Domino, Fats (b. 1928)''' 
Classic R&B and rock and roll pianist and singer-songwriter; "never to be" (from "Bluberry Hill"), 77; "Blueberry Hill" was written in 1940 and was recorded by Gene Krupa, Glenn Miller, and Gene Autry, and others. In 1956, Fats Domino (b. 1928) recorded it and it was a #2 hit on the Billboard Top 40. Excerpt:

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

'''Donald Duck''' 
Cartoon character from The Walt Disney Company. Donald is a white anthropomorphic duck with a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet. He usually wears a sailor shirt, cap, and a red or black bow tie, but no trousers (except when he goes swimming). Donald's most famous personality trait is his easily provoked and explosive temper; 28

'''"Donna Lee"''' 
131; a be-bop standard composed by Miles Davis, and his first recorded composition. Authorship is sometimes incorrectly attributed to Charlie Parker. It was named after bassist Curly Russell's daughter, Donna Lee Russell.

'''Doors, The''' 
American rock band formed in 1965 in Los Angeles, California by vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, drummer John Densmore, and guitarist Robby Krieger. After Morrison's death on July 3, 1971, the remaining members continued as a threesome until disbanding in 1973; "People Are Strange (When You're a Stranger)" was a single released in September 1967, and was included on the Doors' second album, ''Strange Days'' 81

'''Douglas, Kirk (b. 1916)''' 
American actor and film producer recognized for his cleft chin, his gravelly voice and his recurring roles as the kinds of characters Douglas himself once described as "sons of bitches"; father of actor Michael Douglas; ''Champion'' (1949), 336

'''Downstairs Eddie''' 
113; Doc's neighbor, in graduate film program at SC; 256

'''''Dr. Marcus Welby''''' 
Medical drama that aired on ABC from September 23, 1969 to July 29, 1976. It starred Robert Young as the title character, a family practitioner with a kind bedside manner, and was produced by David Victor and David J. O'Connell. The pilot aired as an ABC Movie of the Week on March 26, 1969; 97

'''''Dr. No''''' 
''Dr. No'' (1962), starring Sean Connery, is the first James Bond film. Based on the 1958 Ian Fleming novel of the same name, it was adapted by Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood, and Berkely Mather. The film was directed by Terence Young; white loafers worn by Dr. No, 118

'''Dracula - "Drac's a part of the band"''' 
299; Reference to "Monster Mash," recorded originally by Bobby "Boris" Pickett 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...")

'''Drano, El''' 
101; aka Leonard Jermain Loosemeat, heroin dealer in Venice, specifically Coy Harlingen's dealer; 39; 211; steady customer of Adrian Prussia, 212; found dead, 264; 300

'''D and D''' 
184; drunk and disorderly?

'''Drybeam, Fritz''' 
52; worked with Doc Sportello at Gotcha!; 94; 194; 258; 316; "in the desert someplace" 365

'''Dubonnet, Lt. Pat''' 
41; top Kahuna at the Gordita Beach station; 46

'''Dúrcal, Rocío ''' 
Rocío Dúrcal (1944-2006) was a Spanish singer and actress; on Adolfo's radio, 338

'''Dwayne''' 
259; Dr. Noguchi's Labrador retriever

'''Dynasty Salon''' 
78; where Lourdes and Motella got their dresses, at the Hong Kong Hilton

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'''Fairfield, Vehi''' 
102; Sortilege's guru; 306

'''fantan''' 
81; similar to roulette, fantan (or Fan-Tan) was once a favorite pastime of the Chinese in America. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan-Tan Wikipedia entry]

'''Fapardokly''' 
Merrell Wayne Fankhauser (b. 1943) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist who was most active in the 1960s and 1970s with bands including the Impacts, Exiles, Fapardokly, HMS Bounty, Fankhauser-Cassidy Band, and MU. "Super Market" appeared on Fapardokly's 1966 album ''Fapardokly''; "triple-tongue highway classic" 368; [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiIRj62VbB0 Check out some Fapardokly on YouTube...]

'''Fazzo, Fabian''' 
238; gent who looks like "a banker in an old movie" at the Kismet in Las Vegas; Chief Operating Officer, Kiscorp, 362

'''feng shui''' 
Ancient Chinese system of aesthetics believed to use the laws of both Heaven (astronomy) and Earth (geography) to help one improve life by receiving positive qi. Traditional feng shui practice always requires an extremely accurate Chinese compass, or luo pan, in order to determine the directions in finding any auspicious sector in a desired location; mirror at Golden Fang HQ, 168

'''Fenway, Crocker''' 
171; Japonica's wealthy father; 314; "Prince of Palos Verdes" 341

<div id="japonica">'''Fenway, Japonica'''</div>
170; at Golden Fang HQ for "Smile Maintenance"; a Cybernet Organism / Kozmic Traveler visiting other worlds v. Real Japonica, 173; her car, Wolfgang, 175; [[Plants of Inherent Vice| See: Plants of Inherent Vice]]

'''FFO''' 
154; music club on Sunset, where Spotted Dick is playing; Funds From Operations (FFO): a term used in real estate investment trusts (REITs) to define the cash flow from their operations.

'''Fields, W. C. (1880-1946)''' 
9; American comedian, actor and juggler. Fields created one of the great American comic personas of the first half of the 20th century: a misanthropic and hard-drinking egotist who remained a sympathetic character despite his snarling contempt for dogs, children, and women; Elmina's father's routine, 112

'''Fiona''' 
129; Smedley's Farfisa organ

'''Flaco the Bad''' 
12; acquaintance of Doc's; 100; 256

'''flatland''' 
The Los Angeles flatland is the area of Los Angeles and Orange counties that is inland, at the foot of the San Gabriel, Santa Monica and Santa Ana mountains and the Palos Verdes peninsula, as contrasted with the "hipper" beach communities; 4

'''Flatweed, Special Agent''' 
72; FBI agent, partner of Special Agent Hugo Borderline; with Penny Kimball; with SA Borderline, in Las Vegas, 220, 222; at Kismet Lounge, 243-244

'''Fleming, Art (1924-1995)''' 
American television host, most notably the original host of the TV game show ''Jeopardy''!; "Art Fleming look on his face" 48

'''''Flintstones, The''''' 
An animated American television sitcom that ran from 1960 to 1966 on ABC, produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions; "page right out of history" 235; 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. 

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

'''"Fly Me to the Moon"''' 
75; Popular standard song written by Bart Howard in 1954. It was titled originally "In Other Words", and was introduced by Felicia Sanders in cabarets. The song became known popularly as "Fly Me to the Moon" from its first line, and after a few years the publishers changed the title to that officially. The song has also been recorded by Nat King Cole and, probably most recognizably, by Frank Sinatra who recorded the song on his 1964 album ''It Might as Well Be Swing'' accompanied by Count Basie. The arrangement by Quincy Jones has become the rendition by which most people recognise the song. Jones changed the time signature, which was originally 3/4 waltz-time, to 4/4 and gave it a 'swing' feel. Sinatra's recording was a hit and was played by the astronauts of Apollo 10, on their lunar-orbital mission and again on the moon itself by the astronaut Buzz Aldrin during Apollo 11. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly_me_to_the_moon Wikipedia entry]

'''Folsom''' 
271; Folsom State Prison is located east of Sacramento in Northern California, probably best known because of the Johnny Cash song "Folsom Prison Blues."

'''Fonda, Henry (1905-1982)''' 
American film and stage actor, best known for his roles as plain-speaking idealists. Fonda's subtle, naturalistic acting style preceded by many years the popularization of method acting; ''Fort Apache'' (1948), 171

'''Fortnight, Trillium''' 
216; "dishevelled girl in a tiny skirt" referred to Doc by Boris Spivey and Dawnette, teaches music theory at UCLA; marries Puck Beaverton, 246; admitted to Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas with concussion, cuts and bruises, released in the custody of her parents several days later, 366. A trillium is a rather fragile type of wildflower; [[Plants of Inherent Vice| See: Plants of Inherent Vice]]

'''Freak Brothers''' 
[[image:freak-brothers.jpg|right|200px|thumb|caption|Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers]]
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."; 33; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabulous_Furry_Freak_Brothers Wikipedia entry]

<div id="freaks">'''''Freaks'''''</div>
196; 1932 American horror film about sideshow performers, directed and produced by Tod Browning and released by MGM, with a cast mostly composed of actual carnival performers. The film was based on Tod Robbins' short story "Spurs". Director Browning took the exceptional step of casting real people with deformities as the eponymous sideshow "freaks," rather than using costumes and makeup; "Code of the Freaks": "If you offend one of them, you have offended them all"
Also mentioned in [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=F#freaks Gravity's Rainbow].

'''Frid, Jonathan''' 
233; Barnabas ... the vampire guy on ''Dark Shadows'', in Las Vegas, singing "Haunted Heart"

'''Fritz''' 
See Drybeam, Fritz

'''Fromme, Lynette "Squeaky" (b. 1948)''' 
283; American criminal, former member of the Manson Family, convicted of attempting to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford in 1975. She is currently serving a life sentence in prison; "righteous-ass bitch" 293

'''Froot Loops''' 
Brand of breakfast cereal produced by Kelloggs. The cereal pieces are torus-shaped (hence "loops") and come in a variety of bright colors and a blend of artificial fruit flavors. Kellogg's introduced Froot Loops in 1963. Originally, there were red, orange, and yellow loops, but green, then purple, and finally blue were added by the 1990s; 308

''''fro pick''' 
3; An "Afro" pick, aka a comb for the Afro hairstyle; this doesn't mean Doc has an Afro, only that he borrowed one "for protection."

'''Frothingham, Rhus''' 
275; LA deputy DA with whom Penny Kimball shares a cubicle at the Hall of Justice; 282; [[Plants of Inherent Vice| See: Plants of Inherent Vice]]

'''Fuller, Buckminster ("Bucky") (1895-1983)''' 
62; an American architect, author, designer, futurist, inventor, and visionary. Fuller wrote more than thirty books, coining and popularizing terms such as "Spaceship Earth", ephemeralization, and synergetics. He also worked in the development of numerous inventions, chiefly in the fields of design and architecture, the best known of which is the geodesic dome. Carbon molecules known as fullerenes or buckyballs were named for their resemblance to geodesic spheres.251

'''Full Moon in Pisces''' 
241-242; song Lark is singing at the Kismet

'''Furies, the''' 
156; opening for Spotted Dick at FFO - 3 basses and no lead guitar

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'''Fairfield, Vehi''' 
102; Sortilege's guru; 306

'''fantan''' 
81; similar to roulette, fantan (or Fan-Tan) was once a favorite pastime of the Chinese in America. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan-Tan Wikipedia entry]

'''Fapardokly''' 
Merrell Wayne Fankhauser (b. 1943) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist who was most active in the 1960s and 1970s with bands including the Impacts, Exiles, Fapardokly, HMS Bounty, Fankhauser-Cassidy Band, and MU. "Super Market" appeared on Fapardokly's 1966 album ''Fapardokly''; "triple-tongue highway classic" 368; [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiIRj62VbB0 Check out some Fapardokly on YouTube...]

'''Fazzo, Fabian''' 
238; gent who looks like "a banker in an old movie" at the Kismet in Las Vegas; Chief Operating Officer, Kiscorp, 362

'''feng shui''' 
Ancient Chinese system of aesthetics believed to use the laws of both Heaven (astronomy) and Earth (geography) to help one improve life by receiving positive qi. Traditional feng shui practice always requires an extremely accurate Chinese compass, or luo pan, in order to determine the directions in finding any auspicious sector in a desired location; mirror at Golden Fang HQ, 168

'''Fenway, Crocker''' 
171; Japonica's wealthy father; 314; "Prince of Palos Verdes" 341

<div id="japonica">'''Fenway, Japonica'''</div>
170; at Golden Fang HQ for "Smile Maintenance"; a Cybernet Organism / Kozmic Traveler visiting other worlds v. Real Japonica, 173; her car, Wolfgang, 175; [[Plants of Inherent Vice| See: Plants of Inherent Vice]]

'''FFO''' 
154; music club on Sunset, where Spotted Dick is playing; Funds From Operations (FFO): a term used in real estate investment trusts (REITs) to define the cash flow from their operations.

'''Fields, W. C. (1880-1946)''' 
9; American comedian, actor and juggler. Fields created one of the great American comic personas of the first half of the 20th century: a misanthropic and hard-drinking egotist who remained a sympathetic character despite his snarling contempt for dogs, children, and women; Elmina's father's routine, 112

'''Fiona''' 
129; Smedley's Farfisa organ

'''Flaco the Bad''' 
12; acquaintance of Doc's; 100; 256

'''flatland''' 
The Los Angeles flatland is the area of Los Angeles and Orange counties that is inland, at the foot of the San Gabriel, Santa Monica and Santa Ana mountains and the Palos Verdes peninsula, as contrasted with the "hipper" beach communities; 4

'''Flatweed, Special Agent''' 
72; FBI agent, partner of Special Agent Hugo Borderline; with Penny Kimball; with SA Borderline, in Las Vegas, 220, 222; at Kismet Lounge, 243-244

'''Fleming, Art (1924-1995)''' 
American television host, most notably the original host of the TV game show ''Jeopardy''!; "Art Fleming look on his face" 48

'''''Flintstones, The''''' 
An animated American television sitcom that ran from 1960 to 1966 on ABC, produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions; "page right out of history" 235; 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. 

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

'''"Fly Me to the Moon"''' 
75; Popular standard song written by Bart Howard in 1954. It was titled originally "In Other Words", and was introduced by Felicia Sanders in cabarets. The song became known popularly as "Fly Me to the Moon" from its first line, and after a few years the publishers changed the title to that officially. The song has also been recorded by Nat King Cole and, probably most recognizably, by Frank Sinatra who recorded the song on his 1964 album ''It Might as Well Be Swing'' accompanied by Count Basie. The arrangement by Quincy Jones has become the rendition by which most people recognise the song. Jones changed the time signature, which was originally 3/4 waltz-time, to 4/4 and gave it a 'swing' feel. Sinatra's recording was a hit and was played by the astronauts of Apollo 10, on their lunar-orbital mission and again on the moon itself by the astronaut Buzz Aldrin during Apollo 11. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly_me_to_the_moon Wikipedia entry]

'''Folsom''' 
271; Folsom State Prison is located east of Sacramento in Northern California, probably best known because of the Johnny Cash song "Folsom Prison Blues."

'''Fonda, Henry (1905-1982)''' 
American film and stage actor, best known for his roles as plain-speaking idealists. Fonda's subtle, naturalistic acting style preceded by many years the popularization of method acting; ''Fort Apache'' (1948), 171

'''Fortnight, Trillium''' 
216; "dishevelled girl in a tiny skirt" referred to Doc by Boris Spivey and Dawnette, teaches music theory at UCLA; marries Puck Beaverton, 246; admitted to Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas with concussion, cuts and bruises, released in the custody of her parents several days later, 366. A trillium is a rather fragile type of wildflower; [[Plants of Inherent Vice| See: Plants of Inherent Vice]]

'''Freak Brothers''' 
[[image:freak-brothers.jpg|right|200px|thumb|caption|Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers]]
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."; 33; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabulous_Furry_Freak_Brothers Wikipedia entry]

<div id="freaks">'''''Freaks'''''</div>
196; 1932 American horror film about sideshow performers, directed and produced by Tod Browning and released by MGM, with a cast mostly composed of actual carnival performers. The film was based on Tod Robbins' short story "Spurs". Director Browning took the exceptional step of casting real people with deformities as the eponymous sideshow "freaks," rather than using costumes and makeup; "Code of the Freaks": "If you offend one of them, you have offended them all"
Also in Gravity's Rainbow

'''Frid, Jonathan''' 
233; Barnabas ... the vampire guy on ''Dark Shadows'', in Las Vegas, singing "Haunted Heart"

'''Fritz''' 
See Drybeam, Fritz

'''Fromme, Lynette "Squeaky" (b. 1948)''' 
283; American criminal, former member of the Manson Family, convicted of attempting to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford in 1975. She is currently serving a life sentence in prison; "righteous-ass bitch" 293

'''Froot Loops''' 
Brand of breakfast cereal produced by Kelloggs. The cereal pieces are torus-shaped (hence "loops") and come in a variety of bright colors and a blend of artificial fruit flavors. Kellogg's introduced Froot Loops in 1963. Originally, there were red, orange, and yellow loops, but green, then purple, and finally blue were added by the 1990s; 308

''''fro pick''' 
3; An "Afro" pick, aka a comb for the Afro hairstyle; this doesn't mean Doc has an Afro, only that he borrowed one "for protection."

'''Frothingham, Rhus''' 
275; LA deputy DA with whom Penny Kimball shares a cubicle at the Hall of Justice; 282; [[Plants of Inherent Vice| See: Plants of Inherent Vice]]

'''Fuller, Buckminster ("Bucky") (1895-1983)''' 
62; an American architect, author, designer, futurist, inventor, and visionary. Fuller wrote more than thirty books, coining and popularizing terms such as "Spaceship Earth", ephemeralization, and synergetics. He also worked in the development of numerous inventions, chiefly in the fields of design and architecture, the best known of which is the geodesic dome. Carbon molecules known as fullerenes or buckyballs were named for their resemblance to geodesic spheres.251

'''Full Moon in Pisces''' 
241-242; song Lark is singing at the Kismet

'''Furies, the''' 
156; opening for Spotted Dick at FFO - 3 basses and no lead guitar

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'''Fairfield, Vehi''' 
102; Sortilege's guru; 306

'''fantan''' 
81; similar to roulette, fantan (or Fan-Tan) was once a favorite pastime of the Chinese in America. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan-Tan Wikipedia entry]

'''Fapardokly''' 
Merrell Wayne Fankhauser (b. 1943) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist who was most active in the 1960s and 1970s with bands including the Impacts, Exiles, Fapardokly, HMS Bounty, Fankhauser-Cassidy Band, and MU. "Super Market" appeared on Fapardokly's 1966 album ''Fapardokly''; "triple-tongue highway classic" 368; [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiIRj62VbB0 Check out some Fapardokly on YouTube...]

'''Fazzo, Fabian''' 
238; gent who looks like "a banker in an old movie" at the Kismet in Las Vegas; Chief Operating Officer, Kiscorp, 362

'''feng shui''' 
Ancient Chinese system of aesthetics believed to use the laws of both Heaven (astronomy) and Earth (geography) to help one improve life by receiving positive qi. Traditional feng shui practice always requires an extremely accurate Chinese compass, or luo pan, in order to determine the directions in finding any auspicious sector in a desired location; mirror at Golden Fang HQ, 168

'''Fenway, Crocker''' 
171; Japonica's wealthy father; 314; "Prince of Palos Verdes" 341

<div id="japonica">'''Fenway, Japonica'''</div>
170; at Golden Fang HQ for "Smile Maintenance"; a Cybernet Organism / Kozmic Traveler visiting other worlds v. Real Japonica, 173; her car, Wolfgang, 175; [[Plants of Inherent Vice| See: Plants of Inherent Vice]]

'''FFO''' 
154; music club on Sunset, where Spotted Dick is playing; Funds From Operations (FFO): a term used in real estate investment trusts (REITs) to define the cash flow from their operations.

'''Fields, W. C. (1880-1946)''' 
9; American comedian, actor and juggler. Fields created one of the great American comic personas of the first half of the 20th century: a misanthropic and hard-drinking egotist who remained a sympathetic character despite his snarling contempt for dogs, children, and women; Elmina's father's routine, 112

'''Fiona''' 
129; Smedley's Farfisa organ

'''Flaco the Bad''' 
12; acquaintance of Doc's; 100; 256

'''flatland''' 
The Los Angeles flatland is the area of Los Angeles and Orange counties that is inland, at the foot of the San Gabriel, Santa Monica and Santa Ana mountains and the Palos Verdes peninsula, as contrasted with the "hipper" beach communities; 4

'''Flatweed, Special Agent''' 
72; FBI agent, partner of Special Agent Hugo Borderline; with Penny Kimball; with SA Borderline, in Las Vegas, 220, 222; at Kismet Lounge, 243-244

'''Fleming, Art (1924-1995)''' 
American television host, most notably the original host of the TV game show ''Jeopardy''!; "Art Fleming look on his face" 48

'''''Flintstones, The''''' 
An animated American television sitcom that ran from 1960 to 1966 on ABC, produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions; "page right out of history" 235; 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. 

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

'''"Fly Me to the Moon"''' 
75; Popular standard song written by Bart Howard in 1954. It was titled originally "In Other Words", and was introduced by Felicia Sanders in cabarets. The song became known popularly as "Fly Me to the Moon" from its first line, and after a few years the publishers changed the title to that officially. The song has also been recorded by Nat King Cole and, probably most recognizably, by Frank Sinatra who recorded the song on his 1964 album ''It Might as Well Be Swing'' accompanied by Count Basie. The arrangement by Quincy Jones has become the rendition by which most people recognise the song. Jones changed the time signature, which was originally 3/4 waltz-time, to 4/4 and gave it a 'swing' feel. Sinatra's recording was a hit and was played by the astronauts of Apollo 10, on their lunar-orbital mission and again on the moon itself by the astronaut Buzz Aldrin during Apollo 11. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly_me_to_the_moon Wikipedia entry]

'''Folsom''' 
271; Folsom State Prison is located east of Sacramento in Northern California, probably best known because of the Johnny Cash song "Folsom Prison Blues."

'''Fonda, Henry (1905-1982)''' 
American film and stage actor, best known for his roles as plain-speaking idealists. Fonda's subtle, naturalistic acting style preceded by many years the popularization of method acting; ''Fort Apache'' (1948), 171

'''Fortnight, Trillium''' 
216; "dishevelled girl in a tiny skirt" referred to Doc by Boris Spivey and Dawnette, teaches music theory at UCLA; marries Puck Beaverton, 246; admitted to Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas with concussion, cuts and bruises, released in the custody of her parents several days later, 366. A trillium is a rather fragile type of wildflower; [[Plants of Inherent Vice| See: Plants of Inherent Vice]]

'''Freak Brothers''' 
[[image:freak-brothers.jpg|right|200px|thumb|caption|Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers]]
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."; 33; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabulous_Furry_Freak_Brothers Wikipedia entry]

<div id="freaks>'''''Freaks'''''</div>
196; 1932 American horror film about sideshow performers, directed and produced by Tod Browning and released by MGM, with a cast mostly composed of actual carnival performers. The film was based on Tod Robbins' short story "Spurs". Director Browning took the exceptional step of casting real people with deformities as the eponymous sideshow "freaks," rather than using costumes and makeup; "Code of the Freaks": "If you offend one of them, you have offended them all"
Also in Gravity's Rainbow

'''Frid, Jonathan''' 
233; Barnabas ... the vampire guy on ''Dark Shadows'', in Las Vegas, singing "Haunted Heart"

'''Fritz''' 
See Drybeam, Fritz

'''Fromme, Lynette "Squeaky" (b. 1948)''' 
283; American criminal, former member of the Manson Family, convicted of attempting to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford in 1975. She is currently serving a life sentence in prison; "righteous-ass bitch" 293

'''Froot Loops''' 
Brand of breakfast cereal produced by Kelloggs. The cereal pieces are torus-shaped (hence "loops") and come in a variety of bright colors and a blend of artificial fruit flavors. Kellogg's introduced Froot Loops in 1963. Originally, there were red, orange, and yellow loops, but green, then purple, and finally blue were added by the 1990s; 308

''''fro pick''' 
3; An "Afro" pick, aka a comb for the Afro hairstyle; this doesn't mean Doc has an Afro, only that he borrowed one "for protection."

'''Frothingham, Rhus''' 
275; LA deputy DA with whom Penny Kimball shares a cubicle at the Hall of Justice; 282; [[Plants of Inherent Vice| See: Plants of Inherent Vice]]

'''Fuller, Buckminster ("Bucky") (1895-1983)''' 
62; an American architect, author, designer, futurist, inventor, and visionary. Fuller wrote more than thirty books, coining and popularizing terms such as "Spaceship Earth", ephemeralization, and synergetics. He also worked in the development of numerous inventions, chiefly in the fields of design and architecture, the best known of which is the geodesic dome. Carbon molecules known as fullerenes or buckyballs were named for their resemblance to geodesic spheres.251

'''Full Moon in Pisces''' 
241-242; song Lark is singing at the Kismet

'''Furies, the''' 
156; opening for Spotted Dick at FFO - 3 basses and no lead guitar

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'''lagan''' 
267; goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered, or simply goods or materials found or left on the sea floor.

'''Lagonda''' 
71; at coroner's office

'''L'Amour, Louis (1908-1988)''' 
American author. L'Amour's books, primarily Western fiction (though he called his work 'Frontier Stories'), remain popular, and most have gone through multiple printings; 148

'''Landers, Ann''' 
Pen name created by ''Chicago Sun-Times'' advice columnist Ruth Crowley in 1943 and taken over by Eppie Friedman in 1955. For 56 years, the ''Ask Ann Landers'' syndicated advice column was a regular feature in many newspapers across North America. Due to this popularity, 'Ann Landers', though fictional, became something of a national institution and cultural icon; 215

'''Land of the Pygmies''' 
336; Doc asks Kahuna Airlines to this destination

'''Lark''' 
237; "presentable young lady in a paisley minidress and white plastic boots" at the Kismet in Las Vegas

'''laterite''' 
104; Soil layer rich in iron oxide, formed in tropical and sub-tropical regions. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laterite Wikipedia page]

'''Laurel, Stan (1890-1965)''' 
English comic actor, writer and director, famous as the first half of the comedy double-act Laurel and Hardy, whose career stretched from the silent films of the early 20th century until post-World War II; 246; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Laurel Wikipedia entry]

'''Lawrence of Arabia (1888-1935)''' 
Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence CB, DSO, known professionally as T. E. Lawrence, was a British officer renowned especially for his liaison role during the Arab Revolt of 1916–18. His vivid writings, along with the extraordinary breadth and variety of his activities and associations, have made him the object of fascination throughout the world as Lawrence of Arabia, a title popularised by the 1962 film'' Lawrence of Arabia'' based on his life; 191

'''Laszlo and Ilsa''' 
Humphrey Bogard, as Rick Blaine, in the 1942 film ''Casablanca'' helps Victor Laszlo, a Czech resistance leader, escape from the Nazis and in the process falls in love with Laszlo's wife, Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman), with whom he'd been involved before she met and married Laszlo. In the end, Ilsa and Laszlo leave Casablanca on a plane, and Rick stays behind; 360

'''Leej''' 
104; See [[S#sortilege|Sortilege]]

'''Leeway, Petunia''' 
13; "a stunner in a starched cap and micro-length medical outfit" who sort of does reception for Doc and Dr. Buddy Tubeside; 145; [[Plants of Inherent Vice| See: Plants of Inherent Vice]]

'''Lefty''' 
44; bassist in Beer

<div id="lemuria">'''Lemuria,''' </div>
Hypothetical "lost land" variously located in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The concept's 19th century origins lie in attempts to account for discontinuities in biogeography however, the scientific concept of Lemuria has been rendered obsolete by modern understanding of plate tectonics. Although sunken continents do exist, there is no known geological formation under the Indian or Pacific Oceans that corresponds to the hypothetical Lemuria; "Atlantis of the Pacific" 101; 105; 109; "It isn't just a place" 167; "dark metallic gray promontory" in downtown LA, 315; "risen and redeemed" (in Doc's dream), 341; California as an ark for those escaping Lemuria, 352; See [http://www.lemurianconnection.com/en/about-mount-shasta.htm Mount Shasta and the Lemurian Connection]

Lemuria also appears in [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=L#lemuria ''Gravity's Rainbow''].

Also, there is a connection between Mt Shasta, Lemuria, and the legend of the 'Wolf Man':

"Before 18,000 BCE, Lemuria was a large continent in the Pacific whose islands were controlled by pirates. An Atlantean named Kull was enslaved by Lemurian pirates and forced to work as a gladiator, where he faced a Wolf Man. Forging an alliance with that Wolf Man, he later slew the wizard Rotath for the Lemurian monarch Asphodel IV."

[http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Lemuria Lemuria at Marvel Comics]

And, here's s reported sighting of Bigfoot on Mt Shasta:

[http://www.bigfootencounters.com/articles/mtshasta.htm Bigfoot: Sasquatch Creature seen on Mt. Shasta in California 1976]

Is this the right place to mention how significant it is that Mickey Wolfmann reportedly gets upset when people don't spell his surname with a double 'n' at the end?

'''Leo Carrillo''' 
78; Leo Carrillo State Park [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Carrillo_State_Park Wikipedia] near Malibu, named after California native and conservationist Leo Carrillo [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0140504/ IMDB], famous character actor who played Pancho on ''The Cisco Kid.''

'''Lester''' 
66; riding with Bigfoot at Wolfmann residence

'''''Let's Make a Deal'' (1963-1976)''' 
Television game show which originated in the United States and has since been produced in many countries throughout the world. The show was based around deals offered to members of the audience by the host. The contestants usually had to weigh the possibility of an offer being for a valuable prize, or an undesirable item, referred to as a "zonk". The show was hosted for many years by Monty Hall; 47, 253

'''Lewton, Val (1904-1951)''' 
American film producer and screenwriter, who is best known for a sequence of nine brooding horror films he produced for RKO Pictures in the 1940s; ''I Walked with a Zombie'' (1943), 261

'''Liberace (1919-1987)''' 
Wladziu Valentino Liberace, better known by only his last name Liberace was a famous American entertainer and pianist of Polish and Italian descent. During the 1950s–1970s (when Elvis Presley and The Beatles were at the height of their popularity), he was the highest paid entertainer in the world; his "necktie covered with thousands ... of magenta and green sequins in a piano-keyboard pattern" 220; 344

'''Lighthouse Cafe, the''' 
297; Coy Harlingen spotted there by Scott Oof

'''Li'l T-Rex''' 
183; one of Tito Stavrou's creditors

'''lingonberries''' 
208; Swedish pancakes with; the ''Vaccinium vitis-idaea'' &151; often called lingonberry and also called cowberry, foxberry, mountain cranberry, csejka berry, red whortleberry, lowbush cranberry, mountain bilberry, partridgeberry.

'''Linus's Tavern''' 
354; where Doc meets Sauncho to observe the ''Golden Fang''; 359

'''Little Anthony & the Imperials''' 
300; Little Anthony & The Imperials is a rhythm and blues/soul/doo-wop vocal group from New York, first active in the 1950s. "Tears on My Pillow" (1958) was their first hit single. Sample lyric:

:If we could start anew, I wouldn't hesitate 
:I'd gladly take you back, and tempt the hand of fate 
:Tears on my pillow, pain in my heart, caused by you

'''Liv-a-Snaps''' 
195; a brand of dog food

'''Locard's Exchange Principle''' 
Locard's principle is applied to crime scenes in which the perpetrator(s) of a crime comes into contact with the scene, so the perpetrator(s) will both bring something into the scene and leave with something from the scene. Every contact leaves a trace; "every contact leaves traces" 213

'''Long Branch Saloon''' 
254; the saloon where Miss Kitty worked, in the TV series ''Gunsmoke'' (1955-1975) was a western which took part in Dodge City, Kansas

'''Loosemeat, Leonard Jermaine''' 
264; aka El Drano, found dead

'''Lourdes and Motella''' 
See [[R#lourdes|Rodriguez, Lourdes]] and [[H#motella|Haywood, Motella]]

'''Lunchwater case''' 
25; "one more of the squalid matrimonials that were occupying Doc's time"

'''Lupino, Ida (1918-1995)''' 
59; Anglo-American actress and director, self-described as "the poor man's Bette Davis"; Pynchon trivia: she directed the pilot episode of ''Gilligan's Island''.

'''Luz''' 
59; "presentable young Chicana" maid at Wolfmann's; contacts Doc, 142;

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'''lagan''' 
267; goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered, or simply goods or materials found or left on the sea floor.

'''Lagonda''' 
71; at coroner's office

'''L'Amour, Louis (1908-1988)''' 
American author. L'Amour's books, primarily Western fiction (though he called his work 'Frontier Stories'), remain popular, and most have gone through multiple printings; 148

'''Landers, Ann''' 
Pen name created by ''Chicago Sun-Times'' advice columnist Ruth Crowley in 1943 and taken over by Eppie Friedman in 1955. For 56 years, the ''Ask Ann Landers'' syndicated advice column was a regular feature in many newspapers across North America. Due to this popularity, 'Ann Landers', though fictional, became something of a national institution and cultural icon; 215

'''Land of the Pygmies''' 
336; Doc asks Kahuna Airlines to this destination

'''Lark''' 
237; "presentable young lady in a paisley minidress and white plastic boots" at the Kismet in Las Vegas

'''laterite''' 
104; Soil layer rich in iron oxide, formed in tropical and sub-tropical regions. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laterite Wikipedia page]

'''Laurel, Stan (1890-1965)''' 
English comic actor, writer and director, famous as the first half of the comedy double-act Laurel and Hardy, whose career stretched from the silent films of the early 20th century until post-World War II; 246; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Laurel Wikipedia entry]

'''Lawrence of Arabia (1888-1935)''' 
Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence CB, DSO, known professionally as T. E. Lawrence, was a British officer renowned especially for his liaison role during the Arab Revolt of 1916–18. His vivid writings, along with the extraordinary breadth and variety of his activities and associations, have made him the object of fascination throughout the world as Lawrence of Arabia, a title popularised by the 1962 film'' Lawrence of Arabia'' based on his life; 191

'''Laszlo and Ilsa''' 
Humphrey Bogard, as Rick Blaine, in the 1942 film ''Casablanca'' helps Victor Laszlo, a Czech resistance leader, escape from the Nazis and in the process falls in love with Laszlo's wife, Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman), with whom he'd been involved before she met and married Laszlo. In the end, Ilsa and Laszlo leave Casablanca on a plane, and Rick stays behind; 360

'''Leej''' 
104; See [[S#sortilege|Sortilege]]

'''Leeway, Petunia''' 
13; "a stunner in a starched cap and micro-length medical outfit" who sort of does reception for Doc and Dr. Buddy Tubeside; 145; [[Plants of Inherent Vice| See: Plants of Inherent Vice]]

'''Lefty''' 
44; bassist in Beer

<div id="lemuria">'''Lemuria,''' </div>
Hypothetical "lost land" variously located in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The concept's 19th century origins lie in attempts to account for discontinuities in biogeography however, the scientific concept of Lemuria has been rendered obsolete by modern understanding of plate tectonics. Although sunken continents do exist, there is no known geological formation under the Indian or Pacific Oceans that corresponds to the hypothetical Lemuria; "Atlantis of the Pacific" 101; 105; 109; "It isn't just a place" 167; "dark metallic gray promontory" in downtown LA, 315; "risen and redeemed" (in Doc's dream), 341; California as an ark for those escaping Lemuria, 352; See [http://www.lemurianconnection.com/en/about-mount-shasta.htm Mount Shasta and the Lemurian Connection]

Lemuria also appears in [[GR L#lemuria|Gravity's Rainbow]].

Also, there is a connection between Mt Shasta, Lemuria, and the legend of the 'Wolf Man':

"Before 18,000 BCE, Lemuria was a large continent in the Pacific whose islands were controlled by pirates. An Atlantean named Kull was enslaved by Lemurian pirates and forced to work as a gladiator, where he faced a Wolf Man. Forging an alliance with that Wolf Man, he later slew the wizard Rotath for the Lemurian monarch Asphodel IV."

[http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Lemuria Lemuria at Marvel Comics]

And, here's s reported sighting of Bigfoot on Mt Shasta:

[http://www.bigfootencounters.com/articles/mtshasta.htm Bigfoot: Sasquatch Creature seen on Mt. Shasta in California 1976]

Is this the right place to mention how significant it is that Mickey Wolfmann reportedly gets upset when people don't spell his surname with a double 'n' at the end?

'''Leo Carrillo''' 
78; Leo Carrillo State Park [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Carrillo_State_Park Wikipedia] near Malibu, named after California native and conservationist Leo Carrillo [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0140504/ IMDB], famous character actor who played Pancho on ''The Cisco Kid.''

'''Lester''' 
66; riding with Bigfoot at Wolfmann residence

'''''Let's Make a Deal'' (1963-1976)''' 
Television game show which originated in the United States and has since been produced in many countries throughout the world. The show was based around deals offered to members of the audience by the host. The contestants usually had to weigh the possibility of an offer being for a valuable prize, or an undesirable item, referred to as a "zonk". The show was hosted for many years by Monty Hall; 47, 253

'''Lewton, Val (1904-1951)''' 
American film producer and screenwriter, who is best known for a sequence of nine brooding horror films he produced for RKO Pictures in the 1940s; ''I Walked with a Zombie'' (1943), 261

'''Liberace (1919-1987)''' 
Wladziu Valentino Liberace, better known by only his last name Liberace was a famous American entertainer and pianist of Polish and Italian descent. During the 1950s–1970s (when Elvis Presley and The Beatles were at the height of their popularity), he was the highest paid entertainer in the world; his "necktie covered with thousands ... of magenta and green sequins in a piano-keyboard pattern" 220; 344

'''Lighthouse Cafe, the''' 
297; Coy Harlingen spotted there by Scott Oof

'''Li'l T-Rex''' 
183; one of Tito Stavrou's creditors

'''lingonberries''' 
208; Swedish pancakes with; the ''Vaccinium vitis-idaea'' &151; often called lingonberry and also called cowberry, foxberry, mountain cranberry, csejka berry, red whortleberry, lowbush cranberry, mountain bilberry, partridgeberry.

'''Linus's Tavern''' 
354; where Doc meets Sauncho to observe the ''Golden Fang''; 359

'''Little Anthony & the Imperials''' 
300; Little Anthony & The Imperials is a rhythm and blues/soul/doo-wop vocal group from New York, first active in the 1950s. "Tears on My Pillow" (1958) was their first hit single. Sample lyric:

:If we could start anew, I wouldn't hesitate 
:I'd gladly take you back, and tempt the hand of fate 
:Tears on my pillow, pain in my heart, caused by you

'''Liv-a-Snaps''' 
195; a brand of dog food

'''Locard's Exchange Principle''' 
Locard's principle is applied to crime scenes in which the perpetrator(s) of a crime comes into contact with the scene, so the perpetrator(s) will both bring something into the scene and leave with something from the scene. Every contact leaves a trace; "every contact leaves traces" 213

'''Long Branch Saloon''' 
254; the saloon where Miss Kitty worked, in the TV series ''Gunsmoke'' (1955-1975) was a western which took part in Dodge City, Kansas

'''Loosemeat, Leonard Jermaine''' 
264; aka El Drano, found dead

'''Lourdes and Motella''' 
See [[R#lourdes|Rodriguez, Lourdes]] and [[H#motella|Haywood, Motella]]

'''Lunchwater case''' 
25; "one more of the squalid matrimonials that were occupying Doc's time"

'''Lupino, Ida (1918-1995)''' 
59; Anglo-American actress and director, self-described as "the poor man's Bette Davis"; Pynchon trivia: she directed the pilot episode of ''Gilligan's Island''.

'''Luz''' 
59; "presentable young Chicana" maid at Wolfmann's; contacts Doc, 142;

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'''McGarrett, Steve''' 
97; Steve McGarrett is a fictional character in the long running (12 seasons, 1968-1980) crime drama television series ''Hawaii Five-O''. McGarrett was the lead character in the series with a regular supporting cast. Throughout the series he was a fictional police officer; 202;

'''McNutley, Trevor "Shiny Mac"''' 
132; Spotted Dick's bass player; 156

'''McPherson, Aimee Semple (1890-1944)''' 
238; often called Sister Aimee, she was a Canadian-born evangelist and media sensation in the 1920s and 1930s who founded the Foursquare Church. She was a pioneer in the use of modern media, especially radio, which she used to create a form of religion that drew heavily on the appeal of popular entertainment. On May 18, 1926, McPherson went to Ocean Park Beach, north of Venice Beach, with her secretary, to go swimming. Soon after arrival, McPherson disappeared. It was generally assumed at the time that she had drowned. On June 23, 1926, just weeks after her disappearance, McPherson stumbled out of the desert in Agua Prieta, Sonora, a Mexican town just across the border from Douglas, Arizona. She claimed that she had been kidnapped, drugged, tortured, and held for ransom in a shack in Mexico, then had escaped and walked through the desert for about 13 hours to freedom. However, she'd really run off with her lover, Kenneth G. Ormiston, an engineer at radio station KFSG.

'''magazines''' 
169; a bunch

'''Magda''' 
96; waitress at Zucky's; 367

'''magenta & green''' 
See [[G#greenmagenta|green and magenta]]

'''Magic Kingdom''' 
Disneyland is an American theme park in Anaheim, California, owned and operated by the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts division of The Walt Disney Company. It opened to the general public July 18, 1955. "The Magic Kingdom" was used as an unofficial nickname for Disneyland before the Walt Disney World Resort was opened in 1971; "Happy and Dopey ... skipping around" 33

'''mah-jongg''' 
81: Ancient Chinese game of skill, strategy, calculation and luck, played with ivory and bamboo tiles. It was introduced in the United States in the 1920s and became popular here. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mah_Jong Wikipedia entry]

'''Makaha of Sound''' 
37; more like wall of a wave

'''Malloy, Pete''' 
202; The TV show ''Adam-12'' (1968-1975) followed the daily activities of a pair of LAPD patrol officers – seven-year veteran officer Peter 'Pete' Malloy (Martin Milner) and rookie officer James 'Jim' Reed (Kent McCord). Like ''Dragnet'', the episodes were based on true incidents culled from LAPD case files.

'''Man of La Muncha''' 
256; one of Doc's hangouts, in Gordita Beach

'''Manson, Charles ("Charlie")''' 
29; 38; 53; 119; 135; 138; 179; "D'Jack Frost" - the Family's "favorite surplus store in Santa Monica" 199; Cielo Drive, 208; 209; 280; 292; Doc's thing for Manson chicks, 304; 308; 311; Bigfoot, 332

'''Manuel''' 
181; owner of Resurrection of the Body

'''Mao Zedong''', aka "Chairman Mao" 
301; 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.

'''Marcuse, Herbert''' 
301; 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.

'''Marketts, the''' 
134; early 1960s American instrumental pop group, formed in Hollywood, California. Their biggest surf hit was "Outer Limits" in 1964. They may be the model for the Boards, because their line-up constantly changed, being made up of various session musicians from the Los Angeles area. They took their direction from producer Joe Saraceno who took the group's style in whatever direction he thought would catch the record-buying public's ear. "Here Comes the Ho-dads," not "[http://www.youtube.com/jglassow#play/all/1/0ZF98gNGvtA Here Come the Hodads]" as Pynchon writes in minor variation, was a song released on their 1963 album The Surfing Scene. Sid Meier's "Civilization II: Conflicts in Civilization Scenarios" includes this scenario: "Alien Invasion (sometime in the future) - Here come the Hodads! Vicious monsters from space have landed and already devastated most of the Earth's population. Who will stop them?"

''Surfer slang'': A "Hodad" is one of those guys who has a surfboard, but never surfs. A fake surfer, usually more interested in the gals. See [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hodad Urban Dictionary]

'''Marlowe, Philip''' 
97; famous fictional PI created by Raymond Chandler

'''Martin, Dean''' 
233; watching Jonathan Frid in Las Vegas; 245

'''Marx, Gummo''' 
283; fourth Marx brother. More [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gummo_Marx here].

'''masse shots''' 
148; A steep curve or complete reversal of cue ball direction without the necessity of any rail or object ball being struck, due to extreme spin imparted to the cue ball by a steeply elevated cue. Can damage a pool table's felt.

'''Mavericks''' 
99; Northern California big-wave surfing location, in Half Moon Bay (Pynchon's use is anacronistic); first surfed in 1961 but deemed too dangerous by the trio that attempted it; not surfed again until 1975 by Jeff Clark who surfed Mavericks alone until 1990 when word got out. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mavericks_%28location%29 Trivia alert]: Apparently named after a dog who swam out with the first people who tried to surf the wave.

'''May Company''' 
348; where Doc and Crocker Fenway plan to conduct exchange

'''Meatball Flag''' 
155; fictional band, "Soul Gidget"; in auto racing, a "meatball" flag is a black flag with an orange disk in its center, which indicates that a car is being summoned to the pits due to mechanical problems that are interfering with the race, such as an oil, water, or fuel leak. The name is likely a reference to the nickname the Allies gave to the Japanese flag, which is white with a red circle in the middle: "meatball" flag.

'''Mehta, Zubin (b. 1936)''' 
148; Music Director of Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra from 1962-1978

'''Mercy''' 
354; bartender at Linus's Tavern near San Pedro; 359

'''Merman, Ethel''' 
221; Puck's and Einar's impersonation of "No Business Like Show Business"; "You're Not Sick, You're Just in Love" 247; "Everything's Coming Up Roses" from ''Gypsy: A Musical Fable'', 247

<div id="carolmerrill">'''Merrill, Carol'''</div>
47; assistant on TV game show ''Let's Make a Deal''

'''MGM''' 
Metro Goldwyn Mayer - In 1957, the studio reported a loss for the first time in its history. Hollywood as a whole was in trouble by then anyway, thanks to television and the decline of the star contract system on which the studios' power depended. Ten years later, MGM was bought by Kirk Kerkorian, an old-style American buccaneer who had made his fortune flying visitors to Las Vegas. The following year, thousands of props, costumes and other priceless memorabilia went under the auctioneer's hammer. The auction, which lasted for weeks, occurred in April 1970 and Judy Garland's Ruby Slippers from ''The Wizard of Oz'' was one of the lots sold; auction, 125, 344

'''Michelangelo''' 
''Creation of Adam, The'', 124; ''Last Supper'', 137

'''Midnight Special''' 
315; an inexpensive American pale ale, now discontinued.

'''Mighty Mouse''' 
40

'''Mike''' 
183; owner of Teke Greek restaurant

'''Mildred''' 
303; Shasta's dog

'''''Mildred Pierce'' (1945)''' 
Based on the 1941 novel by James M. Cain, ''Mildred Pierce'' is a Warner Bros. feature film starring Joan Crawford in a noir-ish tale about a sacrificing mother and her ungrateful daughter. It was Crawford's first film for Warners after leaving MGM. Veda is Mildred's daughter in the film. In the novel, Mildred attempts to strange Veda; 360

'''Milton''' 
52; bookkeeper at Gotcha!; 94

'''Mira Costa''' 
103; high school attended by Spike and Sortilege

'''''Mod Squad, The''''' 
32; 97; 123; Popular hour long cop drama that aired on ABC from '68-73. Aaron Spelling produced. The three cops were young adults who often went undercover. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mod_Squad Wikipedia Entry]

'''Modern Institute for Cognitive Repatterning and Overhaul ("MICRO")''' 
55; Doc's made-up "private clinic out near Hacienda Heights" that specializes in "repairs of stressed personalities"

'''Moe''' 
80; one of the Three Stooges

'''''Monkees''''' 
232; A pop rock quartet assembled by Robert "Bob" Rafelson and Bert Schneider in Los Angeles in 1966 for the American television series'' The Monkees'', which aired from 1966 to 1968. The members were Americans Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith, Peter Tork, and Englishman Davy Jones. Although the show was canceled in 1968, the band continued releasing records until 1970.

'''Morrison, Jim''' 
77; Morrison (1943-1971) was the lead singer and main lyricist for the rock group The Doors. 'Before you slip into unconsciousness" is the opening line from 'The Crystal Ship' which was on The Doors 1967 self-titled debut album.

'''Moses, Robert (1888-1981)''' 
58; the quote is real and basically means that in urban development the ends justify the means. Moses was "master builder" of mid-20th century New York City, Long Island, and Westchester County, New York. As the shaper of a modern city, he is one of the most polarizing figures in the history of urban planning in the United States. Although never elected to public office, he was arguably the most powerful person in New York state government from the 1930s to the 1950s. He changed shorelines, built roadways in the sky, and transformed neighborhoods forever. His decisions favoring highways over public transit helped create the modern suburbs of Long Island and influenced a generation of engineers, architects, and urban planners who spread his philosophies across the nation.

'''Mothra''' 
10; Or ''Mosura''; Giant moth who frequently battles Godzilla. First appeared in 1961 in a self-titled film.

'''Murphy, George (1902-1992)''' 
American dancer, actor, and politician; he played Roger in the 1938 film ''Little Miss Broadway'' and performed a song-and-dance duet with Shirley Temple, "We Should Be Together."; 360

'''Musso & Frank's''' 
Musso & Frank Grill is a world famous restaurant located at 6667 Hollywood Boulevard in the Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Opened in 1919, it is steeped in Hollywood history, having been the hideout of a host of famous Hollywood celebrities from days gone by. It is named for original owners Joseph Musso and Frank Toulet; Burke Stodger hangout, 310

'''Myrna''' 
127; house wirehair dog at Boards mansion

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Robinson, Edward G. ("Eddie") (1893-1973)''' 
Honorary Academy Award-winning American actor born in Romania, he has played a wide range of characters, and is best remembered for his roles as a gangster, most notably in his breakthrough film ''Little Caesar'' (1930).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''St. Flip of Lawndale''' 
99; surfer; 256; Shasta staying at his house, 303; his "mythical break" aka Death's Doorsill, 357

'''"Samba do Avião"''' 
162; Portuguese: "song of the jet"; composed by Antonio Carlos Jobim and used in the 1962 film ''Copacabana Palace'' by Italian director Steno (born Stefano Vanzina) (1915-1988)

'''Sanders, George (1906-1972)''' 
Sanders was an Academy Award-winning English film and television actor. Known for his smooth upper-crust English accent, cocking his eyebrows was a facial gesture he deployed in many of his films to express skepticism and other reactions. In 1950, Sanders gave his most widely recognised performance, and achieved his greatest success, as the acerbic, cold-blooded theatre critic Addison DeWitt in ''All About Eve'', winning an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor; 311

'''Sassoon, Vidal (b. 1928)''' 
British-born Israeli hairdresser and businessman; 127

'''scag''' 
334; street slang for "heroin"

'''Schiffer, Mr.''' 
338; Doc's PE teacher in high school

'''Scott''' 
353; Doc's cousin

'''Screaming Ultraviolet Brain''' 
10; headshop operated by Ensenada Slim, in Gordita Beach; 256

'''''Sea Wolf, The'' (1941)''' 
Black-and-white film adaptation of Jack London's novel ''The Sea Wolf'' with Edward G. Robinson, Ida Lupino, and John Garfield. Refined fiction writer Humphrey van Weyden and escaped convict Ruth Webster (Lupino) are passengers on a ship that collides with another vessel and sinks. They are rescued by the ''Ghost'', a seal-hunting ship. At the helm is the brutal Captain Wolf Larsen (Robinson), a compassionless individual who delights in dominating and abusing his crew. Garfield plays the rebellious cabin boy George Leach who becomes Ruth Webster's protector; Doc recalling, 356

'''Shaggy''' 
190; character in Hanna-Barbera cartoon "Scooby-Doo" (1969)

'''Shank, Bud''' 
Clifford Everett "Bud" Shank, Jr. (1926-2009) was an American alto saxophonist and flautist. He played flute in Stan Kenton's Innovations in Modern Music Orchestra, on various recording sessions including ''The Zodiac : Cosmic Sounds'', and occasionally in live performances (as with The L.A. Four) until he gave it up later in his career to focus exclusively on the alto saxophone; at the Lighthouse Cafe, 298

'''Shannon''' 
205; dead waitress at the Arizona Palms, in Doc's dream

'''Shannon, Del (1934-1990)''' 
148; "Runaway"; suffering from depression, Shannon committed suicide in 1990 with a .22-calibre rifle; [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKvCa5lkgUw View a 1982 performance of "Runaway" on YouTube...]

'''Shasta''' 
See [[H#shasta|Hepworth, Shasta Fay]]

'''''shikantaza''''' 
102; Japanese term for zazen introduced by Dogen Zenji and associated most with the Soto school of Zen Buddhism, but which also is "the base of all Zen disciplines."

'''short''' 
333; hipster slang for "car"

'''Sinatra, Frank''' 
61; "exchanging glances" ("Strangers in the Night"); watching Jonathan Frid, in Las Vegas, 233; Sinatroid, 337

'''"single up all lines"''' 
119; a phrase frequently used by Pynchon, likely because of its multiple meanings, metaphorically.

:"single up all lines" is used in its normal nautical context in [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#single_up_all_lines ''V.'', p.11]; [http://cl49.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_2#single_up_all_lines ''The Crying of Lot 49'', p.31]; [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_488-491#single_up_all_lines ''Gravity's Rainbow'', p.489]; [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_26:_257-265#Page_258 ''Mason & Dixon'', pp.258 and 260]; and [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_1-25#Page_3 ''Against the Day'', p.3]. Perhaps we can understand this "line" as a text-string linking Pynchon's novels together (all but [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki ''Vineland'']?). Of course, the fact that ''Vineland'' ''doesn't'' include the phrase sort of throws a spanner in the works!

'''"Skyful of Hearts"''' 
338; song sung by Doc in Sinatroid style, at Kahuna Airlines

'''Skyhook Lodge''' 
115; where Leo & Elmina are staying.

'''Smedley''' 
128; Spotted Dick's keyboard player, "doing Hanon exercises on his Farfisa" he calls Fiona

'''Smilax, Sauncho''' 
26; Doc's attorney at Hardy, Gridley, & Chatfield who practice maritime law; 89; 117; lagan, 267; having seen ''The Wizard of Oz'', 286; 340 [[Sauncho Smilax|DISCUSSION]]; [[Plants of Inherent Vice|Plants of Inherent Vice]]

'''Smith, Bessie''' 
249; Smith (1894–1937) was an American blues singer. Sometimes referred to as "The Empress of the Blues," she is often regarded as one of the greatest singers of her era and a major influence on subsequent jazz vocalists. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Smith Wikipedia]

'''Smith, Maggie''' 
204; Dame Margaret Natalie Smith, DBE (b. 1934), better known as Maggie Smith, is a pre-eminent English film, stage, and television actress who made her stage debut in 1952 and is still performing.

'''Sombrero, El''' 
221; "world-renowed Taqueria in Las Vegas

'''"Something Happened to Me Yesterday"''' 
193; Rolling Stones song on ''Between the Buttons'' (1967)

'''"Something in the Air"''' 
1969 hit for one-hit-wonder UK band Thunderclap Newman. It was originally titled "Revolution" but later renamed to avoid confusion with the Beatles' 1968 song of that name. A sample verse:

:Hand out the arms and ammo''' 
:We're going to blast our way through here''' 
:We've got to get together sooner or later''' 
:Because the revolution's here, and you know it's right''' 
:And you know that it's right

'''Sortilege''' 
11; used to work in Doc's office; Sortilege is the foretelling of the future by drawing lots. Sortilege is a form of Cleromancy, a form of divination using sortition, casting of lots, or casting bones, in which an outcome is determined by means that normally would be considered random, such as the rolling of dice, but that are believed to reveal the will of God or other supernatural entities. Sortition, also known as allotment, is an equal-chance method of selection by some form of lottery such as drawing coloured pebbles from a bag; 101; "telling time from a broken clock" 282

It's apt that the 'sort' in 'Sortilege' comes from the word 'sort', recalling Maxwell's Demon and The Crying of Lot 49. Making it even more appropriate that the 'sorting' being done is the sorting of 'lots'.

'''"Soul Gidget"''' 
155; by Meatball Flag

'''Sound Mind Cafe''' 
172; "a secluded eatery" where Dr. Blatnoyd has first blind date with Japonica

'''Spade, Sam''' 
Sam Spade is a fictional character who is the protagonist of Dashiell Hammett's novel ''The Maltese Falcon'' (1930) and the various films and adaptations based on it, as well as in three lesser known short stories written by Hammett. Known for his cold detachment, keen eye for detail, and unflinching determination to achieve his own justice, Spade is the man who has seen the wretched, the corrupt, the tawdry side of life but still retains his "tarnished idealism"; 97

'''Spaniels, the''' 
American R&B doo-wop group (1952-1974), best known for the hit "Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight." Some historians of vocal groups consider Pookie Hudson to be the first true leader of a vocal group, because the Spaniels pioneered the technique of having the main singer solo at his own microphone, while the rest of the group shared a second microphone. "A Stranger in Love" was recorded for their album ''Heart and Soul Volume Two'' (1958); 368

'''Spanish Words & Phrases''' 
62: ''arrepentimiento'' - sorry about that; also 248-249 
64: ''¿Dónde estás, mi hijita?''--Where are you, my little girl? 
142: ''ése'' - This guy, or just this 
142: ''sinvergüenza'' - shameless 
142: ''esta gente no sabe nada'' - these people know nothing 
144: ''compinches'' - partner in crime 
145: ''hijo de puta'' - son of a bitch 
145: ''otra vez, si?'' - another time, yes? 
174: ''la cabeza'' - the head 
192: ''por vida'' - for life 
224: ''quien es mas macho?'' - who is more manly? 
331: ''palabra'' - word 
338: ''peligro'' - danger 
338: ''vato'' - dude, gangster, homeboy (colloquial)

'''Sparky''' 
195; new kid at Gotcha! adept at the ARPAnet; 258; 267; 364

'''Spike''' 
11; Vietnam veteran and boyfriend of Sortilege; 102

<div id="spivey">'''Spivey, Boris'''</div>
147; "Another member of Mickey's muscle patrol"; Dawnette, his fiance, 148; disappeared, 214; "the second AP Finance alumnus ... who'd hired on with Mickey" 285;

<div id="gilroy">'''Sportello, Gilroy'''</div>
Doc's brother, "the one with the life" 112; in Doc's dream, 205; promoted, 352

'''Sportello, Larry ("Doc")''' 
1; "sportello" is Italian for door or window; his Afro, 14; arrested, 23; is he black? 34; Hawaiian shirt, 77; aka Xpp, 106; going to Chryskylodon Institute, 186; goes to the Kismet in Las Vegas, 235; feeling "evidence everywhere of ancient visitation" in Las Vegas desert, 249; visiting Penny Kimball at the Hall of Justice, 275; tape interview at Hall of Justice, 281; conversation with Thomas Jefferson at the Plastic Nickel, 294; "hopeless stooge of the creditor class" 303; with Shasta, 303-310; negotiating with Crocker Fenway, 346; class-warfare conversation, 347-348

'''Sportello, Leo''' 
112; Doc's father

'''Sportello, Vernix''' 
352; Gilroy's wife

'''Spotted Dick''' 
127; visiting British band, at Boards mansion; Spotted dick is a steamed suet pudding containing dried fruit (usually currants), commonly served with either custard or butter and brown sugar; "George Formby covers, old movie music, regional folk material, plus their own stuff, which tends to be tuneful, poetic ... English" 130; zombies, 132; "Long Trip Out" 198;

'''Staccato, Johnny''' 
97; a private detective series which ran for twenty-seven episodes on NBC from 1959-1960. John Cassavetes played the lead role.

'''''Star Trek''''' 
73; "not logical, Captain" 140; 254; Mr. Spock, 325

'''Stavrou, Inez''' 
183; Tito's wife or girlfriend

<div id="tito">'''Stavrou, Tito'''</div>
181; Doc's friend who runs a limo service and has a gambling habit; in Las Vegas, 227; 335

'''Steamer Lane''' 
363; song Coy plays at the Surfadelic Freak-In up at Will Rogers Park; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steamer_Lane Steamer Lane] is a famous surfing location in Santa Cruz, California.

'''Stewart, James''' 
in ''Vertigo'', 298

'''Stodger, Burke''' 
92; movie star (see ''Paternoster Ruby'' by Charles Edmonds Walk, 1910 - Alexander Stilwell Burke and Stodger, a plain-clothes cop - a ''noir''-ish murder mystery); ''Commie Confidential'', 93; set up Coy with the Viggies, 308; and Shasta, 309; ''.45-Caliber Kissoff'', 309; ''I Was a Red Dope Fiend'' and ''Squeal, Pinko, Squeal'' ("modestly budgeted FBI dramas"), 309; [http://books.google.com/books?id=kd54UWt8QC0C&dq=%22paternoster+ruby%22+%2B+edmonds+%2B+walk&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=mfkolEDFk_&sig=g6LtMmYTkF8eXx7zavBAEgAE1a0&hl=en&ei=aZZPSpzUHpGgswOq8LmqDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1 ''Paternoster Ruby'' on Google Books]

'''''Stone Turntable''''' 
124; fictional "underground fan magazine"

'''Sun-Fary Market''' 
159; where Doc leaves Jason Velveeta

'''"Super Market"''' 
Appeared on Fapardokly's 1966 album ''Fapardokly''; "triple-tongue highway classic" 368

'''Sureños''' 
Group of Mexican American street gangs with origins in the oldest barrios of Southern California. There are hundreds of Sureño gangs in California, and each has its own identity on the streets; Tariq Khalil and Glen Charlock, 290

'''Surfadelic Freak-In''' 
Beer appearing at, 297; Hope and Amethyst's free passes to, in Will Rogers Park, 362

'''Surfaris, The''' 
101; "Wipe Out"

'''Surfer-Lowrider Wars''' 
46

'''"Surfin' Bird"''' 
124; 1963 surf tune by The Trashmen

'''Surfing''' 
"absent surfers" 100; north shore of Oahu, 357

'''swag lamp''' 
4

'''sweep frequency''' 
199; the horizontal sweep frequency of a TV picture is 15,750 Hz. It is based on the fact that 30 frames times 525 (scan) lines equals 15,750.

'''Sybil Brand Institute''' 
135; the Sybil Brand Institute For Women was a famous county jail in Los Angeles County, California. The facility was named after Sybil Brand (1899-2004), a noted local philanthropist and civic leader. Famously, this is where Susan Atkins admitted to another inmate that the Manson Family was responsible for the Tate-LaBianca murders.

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

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

More info at [[Inherent Vice cover analysis]]

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

==Epigraph==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[[image:afro-pick.jpg|right|120px|thumb|caption|'fro pick]]''''fro pick in his baggies for protection''' 
An "Afro" pick, aka a comb for the Afro hairstyle; this doesn't necessarily mean Doc has an Afro, only that he borrowed one "for protection" as they generally had fairly sharp metal tines.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 11==
'''Sad but true, as Dion always sez.''' 
"Runaround Sue" ("Here's my story, it's sad but true...") was a 1961 hit for Dion DiMucci (b. 1939). Dion only sez it once, but then again he "said" it everytime the song was played. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c49klxPex-k Have a listen on YouTube...] 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Tomorrow is another day''' 
For those who don't mind spoilers, see [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_16#Page_281 later annotation].

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 15==
'''Olivetti Lettera 22''' 
A portable typewriter. See it [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivetti_Lettera_22 here]. Various sources, including Jules Siegel, note that Pynchon used an Olivetti Portable Typewriter.

==Page 16==
'''Black Guerrilla Family . . . George Jackson's outfit''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Guerrilla_Family The Black Guerrilla Family] was a prison gang founded in the mid-1960's by George Jackson in San Quentin prison.

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

==Page 17==
'''Watts . . . the riots''' 
In 1965, there was a widespread and brutal riot in the streets of Watts, CA. It lasted almost a week and resulted in several deaths and hundreds of injuries. Read more [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_riots here]. Pynchon wrote on the subject in his 1966 essay for the New York Times [http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/uncollected/watts.html A Journey Into The Mind of Watts]

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'''Dagwood and Mr. Dithers''' 
Dagwood Bumstead is a main character in the long-running comic strip Blondie. He first appeared sometime prior to February 17, 1933. He was originally heir to the Bumstead Locomotive fortune, but was disowned when he married a flapper (originally known as Blondie Boopadoop) whom his family saw as below his class. He has since worked hard at J.C. Dithers & Company (currently as the construction company's office manager) to support his family; 326

'''Dale, Dick''' (b. 1937) 
Surf rock guitarist, known as "The King Of The Surf Guitar". He experimented with reverberation and made use of custom made Fender amplifiers, including the first-ever 100-watt amp.36; the original surf guitarist, 36

'''''Dark Shadows''''' 
128; Gothic soap opera that originally aired weekdays on the ABC television network, from June 27, 1966 to April 2, 1971. In addition to vampires, ''Dark Shadows'' featured werewolves, ghosts, zombies, man-made monsters, witches, warlocks, time travel (both into the past and into the future), and a parallel universe; Japonica humming theme, 176; Jonathan Frid, 233

'''Darren, James "Moondoggie" (b. 1936)''' 
Originally a teen idol, in the early 1960s, Darren is an American television and film actor, television director, and singer. He played Moondoggie in ''Gidget'' (1961), a film about surfers etc.; ; in ''The Time Tunnel'', 261

'''Davis, Ruth Elizabeth "Bette"''' 
10; Davis (1908-1989) was an American actress of film, television and theatre. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres--from contemporary crime melodramas to historical and period films and occasional comedies, though her greatest successes were her roles in romantic dramas. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice and in 1999 placed second, after Katharine Hepburn, on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest female stars of all time.

'''Davis, Sammy''' (1925-1990) 
American actor, comedian, singer, dancer, impressionist and musician, who remains known for being a member of the 'Rat Pack' of entertainers of the Fifties and Sixties, including Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Joey Bishop and Peter Lawford; watching Jonathan Frid in Las Vegas, 233

'''Dawnette''' 
148; Boris Spivey's "fiancee" in Pico Rivera; 152; missing, 215

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

'''dealer's shoe''' 
241; A dealing shoe or dealer's shoe is a gaming device, mainly used in casinos, to hold multiple decks of playing cards.

'''Dear Abby''' 
Dear Abby is the name of the notable advice column founded in 1956 by Pauline Phillips under the pen name, Abigail Van Buren, and carried on today by her daughter, Jeanne Phillips, who now owns the legal rights to the pen name. According to Pauline Phillips, she came up with the pen name, Abigail Van Buren, by combining the name of a biblical figure, Abigail in the Book of Samuel, with the last name of former U.S. President Martin Van Buren; 3

'''Denis''' 
10; Doc's neighbor, reminiscent of Cheech; 124; attended Leuzinger High, 168; fire from smoking joint in bed, 296; 339

'''"Desafinado"''' 
160; written by Antonio Carlos Jobim, it was a 1962 hit for Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd; Spanish for "slightly out of tune"

'''Dick Tracy Junior G-Man''' 
277; Dick Tracy long-running comic strip featuring a popular and familiar character in American pop culture, created by Chester Gould. He is a hard-hitting, fast-shooting, and supremely intelligent police detective who has matched wits with a variety of colorful villains, many based on real-life gangsters. Junior G-Man clubs were for those kids who wanted to join the FBI instead of the Boy Scouts.

'''Dietz & Schwartz''' 
160; "Alone Together" (1932); It was introduced in the Broadway musical ''Flying Colors'' in 1932 by Jean Sargent. The first jazz version was by Artie Shaw in 1939; "Haunted Heart" 233

'''Dion (b. 1939)''' 
Dion DiMucci is an American singer-songwriter who blended elements of doo-wop, pop, and R&B styles; "Runaround Sue" ("Here's my story, it's sad but true..."), 11

'''Dizzy''' 
360; Petunia's husband, a bass player

'''DOA''' 
210: Dead on Arrival

'''Doheny-McAdoo era''' 
This would be the 1920s. William Gibbs McAdoo (1863-1941) took a payment of $25,000 from oil executive Edward Doheny (1856-1935), an American oil tycoon, in connection with the Teapot Dome scandal, but returned it once he discovered Doheny's links with Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall. McAdoo, Woodrow Wilson's son-in-law and the leading contender for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1924, had served as an attorney for Doheny's oil businesses; 343

'''Domino, Fats (b. 1928)''' 
Classic R&B and rock and roll pianist and singer-songwriter; "never to be" (from "Bluberry Hill"), 77; "Blueberry Hill" was written in 1940 and was recorded by Gene Krupa, Glenn Miller, and Gene Autry, and others. In 1956, Fats Domino (b. 1928) recorded it and it was a #2 hit on the Billboard Top 40. Excerpt:

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

'''Donald Duck''' 
Cartoon character from The Walt Disney Company. Donald is a white anthropomorphic duck with a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet. He usually wears a sailor shirt, cap, and a red or black bow tie, but no trousers (except when he goes swimming). Donald's most famous personality trait is his easily provoked and explosive temper; 28

'''"Donna Lee"''' 
131; a be-bop standard composed by Miles Davis, and his first recorded composition. Authorship is sometimes incorrectly attributed to Charlie Parker. It was named after bassist Curly Russell's daughter, Donna Lee Russell.

'''Doors, The''' 
American rock band formed in 1965 in Los Angeles, California by vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, drummer John Densmore, and guitarist Robby Krieger. After Morrison's death on July 3, 1971, the remaining members continued as a threesome until disbanding in 1973; "People Are Strange (When You're a Stranger)" was a single released in September 1967, and was included on the Doors' second album, ''Strange Days'' 81

'''Douglas, Kirk (b. 1916)''' 
American actor and film producer recognized for his cleft chin, his gravelly voice and his recurring roles as the kinds of characters Douglas himself once described as "sons of bitches"; father of actor Michael Douglas; ''Champion'' (1949), 336

'''Downstairs Eddie''' 
113; Doc's neighbor, in graduate film program at SC; 256

'''''Dr. Marcus Welby''''' 
Medical drama that aired on ABC from September 23, 1969 to July 29, 1976. It starred Robert Young as the title character, a family practitioner with a kind bedside manner, and was produced by David Victor and David J. O'Connell. The pilot aired as an ABC Movie of the Week on March 26, 1969; 97

'''''Dr. No''''' 
''Dr. No'' (1962), starring Sean Connery, is the first James Bond film. Based on the 1958 Ian Fleming novel of the same name, it was adapted by Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood, and Berkely Mather. The film was directed by Terence Young; white loafers worn by Dr. No, 118

'''Dracula - "Drac's a part of the band"''' 
299; Reference to "Monster Mash," recorded originally by Bobby "Boris" Pickett 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...")

'''Drano, El''' 
101; aka Leonard Jermain Loosemeat, heroin dealer in Venice, specifically Coy Harlingen's dealer; 39; 211; steady customer of Adrian Prussia, 212; found dead, 264; 300

'''D and D''' 
184; drunk and disorderly?

'''Drybeam, Fritz''' 
52; worked with Doc Sportello at Gotcha!; 94; 194; 258; 316; "in the desert someplace" 365

'''Dubonnet, Lt. Pat''' 
41; top Kahuna at the Gordita Beach station; 46

'''Dúrcal, Rocío ''' 
Rocío Dúrcal (1944-2006) was a Spanish singer and actress; on Adolfo's radio, 338

'''Dwayne''' 
259; Dr. Noguchi's Labrador retriever

'''Dynasty Salon''' 
78; where Lourdes and Motella got their dresses, at the Hong Kong Hilton

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Chapter 1

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

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

More info at [[Inherent Vice cover analysis]]

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

==Epigraph==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[[image:afro-pick.jpg|right|120px|thumb|caption|'fro pick]]''''fro pick in his baggies for protection''' 
An "Afro" pick, aka a comb for the Afro hairstyle; this doesn't necessarily mean Doc has an Afro, only that he borrowed one "for protection" as they generally had fairly sharp metal tines.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 11==
'''Sad but true, as Dion always sez.''' 
"Runaround Sue" ("Here's my story, it's sad but true...") was a 1961 hit for Dion DiMucci (b. 1939). Dion only sez it once, but then again he "said" it everytime the song was played. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c49klxPex-k Have a listen on YouTube...] 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Tomorrow is another day''' 
For those who don't mind spoilers, see [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_16#Page_281 later annotation].

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 15==
'''Olivetti Lettera 22''' 
A portable typewriter. See it [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivetti_Lettera_22 here]. Various sources, including Jules Siegel, note that Pynchon used an Olivetti Portable Typewriter.

==Page 16==
'''Black Guerrilla Family . . . George Jackson's outfit''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Guerrilla_Family The Black Guerrilla Family] was a prison gang founded in the mid-1960's by George Jackson in San Quentin prison.

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

==Page 17==
'''Watts . . . the riots''' 
In 1965, there was a widespread and brutal riot in the streets of Watts, CA. It lasted almost a week and resulted in several deaths and hundreds of injuries. Read more [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_riots here]. Pynchon wrote on the subject in his 1966 essay for the New York Times [http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/uncollected/watts.html A Journey Into The Mind of Watts]

{{Inherent Vice PbP}}

Chapter 1

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

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

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

More info at [[Inherent Vice cover analysis]]

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

==Epigraph==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[[image:afro-pick.jpg|right|120px|thumb|caption|'fro pick]]''''fro pick in his baggies for protection''' 
An "Afro" pick, aka a comb for the Afro hairstyle; this doesn't necessarily mean Doc has an Afro, only that he borrowed one "for protection" as they generally had fairly sharp metal tines.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 11==
'''Sad but true, as Dion always sez.''' 
"Runaround Sue" ("Here's my story, it's sad but true...") was a 1961 hit for Dion DiMucci (b. 1939). Dion only sez it once, but then again he "said" it everytime the song was played. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c49klxPex-k Have a listen on YouTube...] 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Tomorrow is another day''' 
For those who don't mind spoilers, see [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_16#Page_281 later annotation].

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 15==
'''Olivetti Lettera 22''' 
A portable typewriter. See it [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivetti_Lettera_22 here]. Various sources, including Jules Siegel, note that Pynchon used an Olivetti Portable Typewriter.

==Page 16==
'''Black Guerrilla Family . . . George Jackson's outfit''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Guerrilla_Family The Black Guerrilla Family] was a prison gang founded in the mid-1960's by George Jackson in San Quentin prison.

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

==Page 17==
'''Watts . . . the riots''' 
In 1965, there was a widespread and brutal riot in the streets of Watts, CA. It lasted almost a week and resulted in several deaths and hundreds of injuries. Read more [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_riots here]. Pynchon wrote on the subject in his 1966 essay for the New York Times [http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/uncollected/watts.html A Journey Into The Mind of Watts]

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'''Garfield, John (1913-1952)''' 
One of Doc's heroes, Garfield was an American actor especially adept at playing brooding, rebellious, working-class character roles. Garfield is acknowledged as the predecessor of such Method actors as Marlon Brando, James Dean, and Montgomery Clift. He was active in liberal politics, and when called to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, which was empowered to investigate purported communist infiltration in America, Garfield refused to name communist party members or followers, testifying that, indeed, he knew none in the film industry; ''Out of the Fog'', 59; 225; TV Marathon, 254; ''He Ran All the Way'' (1951), 254; and Bigfoot, 269; in Burke Stodger film, ''.45-Caliber Kissoff'', 309; his suit purchased by Doc, 344; ''The Postman Always Rings Twice'' (1946), 344; ''The Sea Wolf'' (1941), 356

'''Gazzoni, Salvatore "Paper Cut"''' 
183; one of Tito Stavrou's creditors

'''Getz, Stan (1927-1991)''' 
American jazz saxophone player. Known as "The Sound" because of his warm, lyrical tone, Getz's prime influence was the wispy, mellow tone of his idol, Lester Young. His 1964 album ''Getz/Gilberto'' with Tom Jobim, João Gilberto and his wife, Astrud Gilberto. "The Girl from Ipanema" from this album won a Grammy Award; one of Coy Harlingen's influences, 37;

'''''Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster'' (1964)''' 
1964 tokusatsu kaiju (Japanese: film about strange beasts) film, and is the 5th film in Toho's Godzilla series. It's the first of the Godzilla series where Godzilla tries to help Japan instead of destroy it, and also features Mothra and Rodan; 281

'''Ghostflower Court''' 
219; "collection of bungalos dating from the fifties" where Doc and Trillium Fortnight stay, in Las Vegas

<div id="gilligan">'''''Gilligan's Island'''''</div>
American TV sitcom originally produced by United Artists Television. It aired for three seasons on the CBS network, from September 26, 1964 to September 4, 1967. The show followed the comic adventures of seven castaways (Gilligan, the Skipper, Thurston Howell, III, Eunice "Lovey" Wentworth Howell, Ginger Grant, the Professor, Mary Ann Summers) as they attempted to survive and ultimately escape from a previously uninhabited island where they were shipwrecked; "was that a diamond ring on Ginger last episode?" 89; "What am I, the Skipper?" 133; ''Godzilligan's Island'', 246; Sauncho's boat, 354; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilligan%27s_Island Wikipedia entry]

'''Gilroy''' 
See [[S#gilroy|Sportello, Gilroy]]

'''Gladys''' 
95; secretary at Gotcha!

'''Glass House''' 
33; 122; police station in the heart of downtown Los Angeles, named after William H. Parker, a former chief of the LAPD. The eight-story structure is situated between Los Angeles Street, First Street, San Pedro Street, and Market Streets and is one block east of City Hall. The detention facility, officially called the Metropolitan Jail, is also most commonly referred to as "Parker Center Jail" and also known as the "Glass House" because of its features large windows. LA's Blacks and Latinos considered Parker a racist pig who led a force of brutal cops that targeted and terrorized the African-American and Latino communities; 137

'''GNASH''' 
100; "Global Network of Anecdotal Surfer Horseshit"

'''Go''' 
A strategic board game for two players. Go is noted for being rich in strategic complexity despite its simple rules. It originated in ancient China over 2,500 years ago; "dollar-a-stone" 81

<div id="godzilla">'''Godzilla'''</div>
7; 10; Enormous, mutant dinosaur who first appeared in the 1954 film ''Gojira'' (English title ''Godzilla, King of the Monsters!'') Godzilla was conceived as a monster created by nuclear explosions and a metaphor for nuclear weapons in general. Over the years, though, the character has lost all political meaning. Godzilligan's Island, 245; Ghidra, the Three-Headed Monster, in which Godzilla appears, 281. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzilla Wikipedia]

'''''Godzilligan's Island''''' 
245; fictional "movie for TV" Doc watches in Las Vegas

'''''Golden Fang, The''''' 
77; big mysterious schooner, aka ''Preserved''; 84; 87; "out of Charlotte Amalie, 90; 92; 109; 119-120; "Indochinese heroin cartel", uses Chick Planet Massage to launder money 159; "six-story-high ''golden fang''!" Corporate HQ, 168; "a syndicate, most of us happen to be dentists, we set it up years ago for tax purposes" 169; ''Procedures Handbook'', dealing with hippies, 170; "if the Golden Fang could get its customers strung out, why not turn around and also sell them a program to help them kick?" 192; 213; in photo in Adrian Prussia's Hall of Justice file, 286; "bunch of honkey dentists" 293; "not only traffick in Enslavement, they peddle the implements of Liberation as well" 294; the person, in Doc's PCP hallucination, 318; dezombified by Zen exorcist (in Doc's dream), 340; put in at San Pedro, 354; abandoned, 358

'''Golden Triangle''' 
One of the most extensive opium-producing areas of Asia and of the world since the 1950s, it is an area of around 350,000 square kilometres that overlaps the mountains of four countries of Southeast Asia: Myanmar (Burma), Laos, Vietnam, and Thailand. There is much evidence that the CIA protected drug lords in the name of national security, and for directly contradicted Drug Enforcement Agency's efforts to interdict major traffickers; ''Golden Fang'' "ran CIA heroin" from, 95; 325

'''''Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The''''' 
204; a 1966 Italian epic spaghetti western film directed by Sergio Leone, starring Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, and Eli Wallach in the title roles.

'''Goofy''' 
28; Walt Disney cartoon character, a dog and one of Mickey Mouse's best friends

'''Gordita Beach''' 
6; fictional Los Angeles beach town where Doc lives and works; according to the article [http://www.theaesthetic.com/NewFiles/pynchon.html "Thomas Pynchon and the South Bay"]: "Pynchon doesn't refer to Manhattan Beach by name. Rather, he uses the name Gordita Beach to refer to his one-time home." On the [[Chapter_21#Page368/369|last two pages]] of ''Inherent Vice'', Doc Sportello is on the Santa Monica freeway which then merges onto the San Diego, heading south. The series of street names and off-ramps points to Manhattan Beach.

And Gordita Beach is one of Zoyd Wheeler's habitats in [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Vineland'']:

:Zoyd was living down south then, sharing a house in Gordita Beach with elements of a surf band he’d been playing keyboard in since junior high, the Corvairs, along with friends more and less transient. The house was so old that all of its termite clauses and code violations had been waived, on the theory that the next moderate act of nature would finish it off. But having been put up back during an era of overdesign, it proved to be sturdier than it looked, with its old stucco eaten at to reveal generations of paint jobs in different beach town pastels, corroded by salt and petrochemical fogs that flowed in the summers onshore up the sand slopes, on up past Sepulveda, often across the then undeveloped fields, to wrap the San Diego Freeway too. ([http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_3#Page_22 p. 22])

The [[C#corvairs|Corvairs surf band]] figures in ''Inherent Vice'', as well, as the band in which Doc's cousin Scott Oof and Elfmont play.

Built on top of one of the "sacred portals of access to the spirit world" 355

'''Gotcha! Searches and Settlements''' 
51; collection agency that hires Doc as a skip-tracer (private investigator or private detective who specializes in finding people who have attempted to disappear) to work of his debt

'''Grande Valse Brillante''' 
220; by Chopin; The Grande Valse brillante in E-flat major (also called Grande Waltz Brillante), Op. 18, was composed by Frédéric Chopin in 1833. It was first published in 1834 and is Chopin's first waltz composition for solo piano. It was often used as incidental music in Brazilian overdubbings of Warner Bros. cartoons such as Bugs Bunny. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLQ-6_OIds4 Have a listen on YouTube...]

'''''Gravity's Rainbow''''' 
shades of Slothrop's desk, 15; "that" - hardons - lighting, 59

'''"Great Pretender, The"''' 
55; a popular song recorded by The Platters and released as a single on November 3, 1955. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtXnUEW_OXw View a 1955 Platters performance of "The Great Pretender" on YouTube...]

<div id="greenmagenta">'''green and magenta'''</div>
Magenta is a brilliant, purple-red dye extracted from coal-tar and named after the Battle of Magenta which was fought in 1859 shortly before the dye was discovered. Green and magenta are complementary colors. They're also the two colors of the neon title on the ''Inherent Vice'' dustjacket. Pynchon uses these colors frequently in his novels; "psychedelic favorites" 14; kimono, 107; Liberace's necktie sequins, 220; clouds of dust, 336; [[Magenta and Green|Read Katherine Hayles' color analysis, in relation to ''Gravity's Rainbow'']]...

'''''Green Acres''''' 
200; American television series starring Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor as a couple who move from New York City to a farm in the country, running from 1965 to 1971.

'''Gummo Marx Way''' 
Remember Milton "Gummo" Marx? He was the fourth-born of the Marx Brothers comedy act (1893-1977) and chose not to become an actor and entertainer. His nickname derives from his enjoying being sneaky backstage, creeping up on others without them knowing (like a gumshoe); "hard-luck boulevard" in Los Angeles, 283-284; 329

'''guns''' 
141; listed; "short-barreled Model 27" 149; Heckler & Koch, 149; Smith, 151; Smith & Wesson, 178; modified AK-47 with an oversize banana clip, 184; Smiths, 186; 201; ".44 Magnum, a Ruger Blackhawk" 250;

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'''McGarrett, Steve''' 
97; Steve McGarrett is a fictional character in the long running (12 seasons, 1968-1980) crime drama television series ''Hawaii Five-O''. McGarrett was the lead character in the series with a regular supporting cast. Throughout the series he was a fictional police officer; 202;

'''McNutley, Trevor "Shiny Mac"''' 
132; Spotted Dick's bass player; 156

'''McPherson, Aimee Semple (1890-1944)''' 
238; often called Sister Aimee, she was a Canadian-born evangelist and media sensation in the 1920s and 1930s who founded the Foursquare Church. She was a pioneer in the use of modern media, especially radio, which she used to create a form of religion that drew heavily on the appeal of popular entertainment. On May 18, 1926, McPherson went to Ocean Park Beach, north of Venice Beach, with her secretary, to go swimming. Soon after arrival, McPherson disappeared. It was generally assumed at the time that she had drowned. On June 23, 1926, just weeks after her disappearance, McPherson stumbled out of the desert in Agua Prieta, Sonora, a Mexican town just across the border from Douglas, Arizona. She claimed that she had been kidnapped, drugged, tortured, and held for ransom in a shack in Mexico, then had escaped and walked through the desert for about 13 hours to freedom. However, she'd really run off with her lover, Kenneth G. Ormiston, an engineer at radio station KFSG.

'''magazines''' 
169; a bunch

'''Magda''' 
96; waitress at Zucky's; 367

'''magenta & green''' 
See [[G#greenmagenta|green and magenta]]

'''Magic Kingdom''' 
Disneyland is an American theme park in Anaheim, California, owned and operated by the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts division of The Walt Disney Company. It opened to the general public July 18, 1955. "The Magic Kingdom" was used as an unofficial nickname for Disneyland before the Walt Disney World Resort was opened in 1971; "Happy and Dopey ... skipping around" 33

'''mah-jongg''' 
81: Ancient Chinese game of skill, strategy, calculation and luck, played with ivory and bamboo tiles. It was introduced in the United States in the 1920s and became popular here. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mah_Jong Wikipedia entry]

'''Makaha of Sound''' 
37; more like wall of a wave

'''Malloy, Pete''' 
202; The TV show ''Adam-12'' (1968-1975) followed the daily activities of a pair of LAPD patrol officers – seven-year veteran officer Peter 'Pete' Malloy (Martin Milner) and rookie officer James 'Jim' Reed (Kent McCord). Like ''Dragnet'', the episodes were based on true incidents culled from LAPD case files.

'''Man of La Muncha''' 
256; one of Doc's hangouts, in Gordita Beach

'''Manson, Charles ("Charlie")''' 
29; 38; 53; 119; 135; 138; 179; "D'Jack Frost" - the Family's "favorite surplus store in Santa Monica" 199; Cielo Drive, 208; 209; 280; 292; Doc's thing for Manson chicks, 304; 308; 311; Bigfoot, 332

'''Manuel''' 
181; owner of Resurrection of the Body

'''Mao Zedong''', aka "Chairman Mao" 
301; 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.

'''Marcuse, Herbert''' 
301; 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.

'''Marketts, the''' 
134; early 1960s American instrumental pop group, formed in Hollywood, California. Their biggest surf hit was "Outer Limits" in 1964. They may be the model for the Boards, because their line-up constantly changed, being made up of various session musicians from the Los Angeles area. They took their direction from producer Joe Saraceno who took the group's style in whatever direction he thought would catch the record-buying public's ear. "Here Comes the Ho-dads," not "[http://www.youtube.com/jglassow#play/all/1/0ZF98gNGvtA Here Come the Hodads]" as Pynchon writes in minor variation, was a song released on their 1963 album The Surfing Scene. Sid Meier's "Civilization II: Conflicts in Civilization Scenarios" includes this scenario: "Alien Invasion (sometime in the future) - Here come the Hodads! Vicious monsters from space have landed and already devastated most of the Earth's population. Who will stop them?"

''Surfer slang'': A "Hodad" is one of those guys who has a surfboard, but never surfs. A fake surfer, usually more interested in the gals. See [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hodad Urban Dictionary]

'''Marlowe, Philip''' 
97; famous fictional PI created by Raymond Chandler

'''Martin, Dean''' 
233; watching Jonathan Frid in Las Vegas; 245

'''Marx, Gummo''' 
283; fourth Marx brother. More [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gummo_Marx here].

'''masse shots''' 
148; A steep curve or complete reversal of cue ball direction without the necessity of any rail or object ball being struck, due to extreme spin imparted to the cue ball by a steeply elevated cue. Can damage a pool table's felt.

'''Mavericks''' 
99; Northern California big-wave surfing location, in Half Moon Bay (Pynchon's use is anacronistic); first surfed in 1961 but deemed too dangerous by the trio that attempted it; not surfed again until 1975 by Jeff Clark who surfed Mavericks alone until 1990 when word got out. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mavericks_%28location%29 Trivia alert]: Apparently named after a dog who swam out with the first people who tried to surf the wave.

'''May Company''' 
348; where Doc and Crocker Fenway plan to conduct exchange

'''Meatball Flag''' 
155; fictional band, "Soul Gidget"; in auto racing, a "meatball" flag is a black flag with an orange disk in its center, which indicates that a car is being summoned to the pits due to mechanical problems that are interfering with the race, such as an oil, water, or fuel leak. The name is likely a reference to the nickname the Allies gave to the Japanese flag, which is white with a red circle in the middle: "meatball" flag.

'''Mehta, Zubin (b. 1936)''' 
148; Music Director of Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra from 1962-1978

'''Mercy''' 
354; bartender at Linus's Tavern near San Pedro; 359

'''Merman, Ethel''' 
221; Puck's and Einar's impersonation of "No Business Like Show Business"; "You're Not Sick, You're Just in Love" 247; "Everything's Coming Up Roses" from ''Gypsy: A Musical Fable'', 247

<div id="carolmerrill">'''Merrill, Carol'''</div>
47; assistant on TV game show ''Let's Make a Deal''

'''MGM''' 
Metro Goldwyn Mayer - In 1957, the studio reported a loss for the first time in its history. Hollywood as a whole was in trouble by then anyway, thanks to television and the decline of the star contract system on which the studios' power depended. Ten years later, MGM was bought by Kirk Kerkorian, an old-style American buccaneer who had made his fortune flying visitors to Las Vegas. The following year, thousands of props, costumes and other priceless memorabilia went under the auctioneer's hammer. The auction, which lasted for weeks, occurred in April 1970 and Judy Garland's Ruby Slippers from ''The Wizard of Oz'' was one of the lots sold; auction, 125, 344

'''Michelangelo''' 
''Creation of Adam, The'', 124; ''Last Supper'', 137

'''Midnight Special''' 
315; an inexpensive American pale ale, now discontinued.

'''Mighty Mouse''' 
40

'''Mike''' 
183; owner of Teke Greek restaurant

'''Mildred''' 
303; Shasta's dog

'''''Mildred Pierce'' (1945)''' 
Based on the 1941 novel by James M. Cain, ''Mildred Pierce'' is a Warner Bros. feature film starring Joan Crawford in a noir-ish tale about a sacrificing mother and her ungrateful daughter. It was Crawford's first film for Warners after leaving MGM. Veda is Mildred's daughter in the film. In the novel, Mildred attempts to strange Veda; 360

'''Milton''' 
52; bookkeeper at Gotcha!; 94

'''Mira Costa''' 
103; high school attended by Spike and Sortilege

'''''Mod Squad, The''''' 
32; 97; 123; Popular hour long cop drama that aired on ABC from '68-73. Aaron Spelling produced. The three cops were young adults who often went undercover. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mod_Squad Wikipedia Entry]

'''Modern Institute for Cognitive Repatterning and Overhaul ("MICRO")''' 
55; Doc's made-up "private clinic out near Hacienda Heights" that specializes in "repairs of stressed personalities"

'''Moe''' 
80; one of the Three Stooges

'''''Monkees''''' 
232; A pop rock quartet assembled by Robert "Bob" Rafelson and Bert Schneider in Los Angeles in 1966 for the American television series'' The Monkees'', which aired from 1966 to 1968. The members were Americans Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith, Peter Tork, and Englishman Davy Jones. Although the show was canceled in 1968, the band continued releasing records until 1970.

'''Morrison, Jim''' 
77; Morrison (1943-1971) was the lead singer and main lyricist for the rock group The Doors. 'Before you slip into unconsciousness" is the opening line from 'The Crystal Ship' which was on The Doors 1967 self-titled debut album.

'''Moses, Robert (1888-1981)''' 
58; the quote is real and basically means that in urban development the ends justify the means. Moses was "master builder" of mid-20th century New York City, Long Island, and Westchester County, New York. As the shaper of a modern city, he is one of the most polarizing figures in the history of urban planning in the United States. Although never elected to public office, he was arguably the most powerful person in New York state government from the 1930s to the 1950s. He changed shorelines, built roadways in the sky, and transformed neighborhoods forever. His decisions favoring highways over public transit helped create the modern suburbs of Long Island and influenced a generation of engineers, architects, and urban planners who spread his philosophies across the nation.

'''Mothra''' 
Or ''Mosura''; Giant moth who frequently battles Godzilla. First appeared in 1961 in a self-titled film.

'''Murphy, George (1902-1992)''' 
American dancer, actor, and politician; he played Roger in the 1938 film ''Little Miss Broadway'' and performed a song-and-dance duet with Shirley Temple, "We Should Be Together."; 360

'''Musso & Frank's''' 
Musso & Frank Grill is a world famous restaurant located at 6667 Hollywood Boulevard in the Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Opened in 1919, it is steeped in Hollywood history, having been the hideout of a host of famous Hollywood celebrities from days gone by. It is named for original owners Joseph Musso and Frank Toulet; Burke Stodger hangout, 310

'''Myrna''' 
127; house wirehair dog at Boards mansion

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'''Taco Bell''' 
197; fastfood chain of inexpensive Mexican food restaurants

'''Tate, Sharon (1943-1969)''' 
48; Actress and wife of Roman Polanski, murdered by the Manson Family in 1969

'''"Tears on My Pillow"''' 
300: Reference to it: "tempt the hand of fate"; released in 1958, it was Little Anthony & the Imperials first hit and contains the line "I'd gladly take you back, and tempt the hand of fate."

'''Teke''' 
182; Greek restaurant where Doc and Tito eat

'''"Telstar"''' 
124; 1962 instrumental by The Tornados

'''Temple, Shirley (b. 1928)''' 
Known for most of her adult life by her married name, Shirley Temple Black, she is an American actress, singer, and tap dancer, who is best known for being an iconic American child actress of the 1930s. After her film achievements she began a notable career as a diplomat; singing "We Should Be Together" from ''Little Miss Broadway'' (1938)

'''"Tequila"''' 
125; 1958 rock instrumental by The Champs

'''Tex-Mecca''' 
221; Taqueria in Las Vegas where Doc and Trillium go

'''Tex Wiener École de Pilotage''' 
134; Tex Wiener first appears in ''Vineland'' (p. 361), where he is introduced as one of Sasha's many romantic interests. The French term "École de Pilotage" can both mean "flight school" and "driving school." In ''Vineland'' Tex wears a "bright silver custom jumpsuit," cultivating the impression that he is a pilot, but it seems that Doc has merely been attending driving school.

'''"That's Amore"''' 
1952 song by composer Harry Warren and lyricist Jack Brooks. It became a major hit and signature song for Dean Martin in 1953. ''Amore'' means "love" in Italian, giving a general traslation in English "that's love." It begins, "When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie that's amore."

'''Thorndyke''' 
153; Aubrey's "coadjutor" biker

'''Three Stooges''' 
American vaudeville and comedy act of the early to mid–20th century best known for their numerous short subject films. Their hallmark was physical slapstick comedy punctuated by quickly-delivered one-liners, within outrageous storylines. The original three were Larry, Moe and Curly; 198

'''Threeply, Dr.''' 
187; at Chryskylodon

'''Thunderclap Newman''' 
Late 1960s One-hit wonder band from the UK. Their single, "Something in the Air", was a 1969 UK Number One hit. The band was formed by the Who's Pete Townsend as a vehicle for the Who's former roadie, John "Speedy" Keen's songs. Keen wrote "Armenia City in the Sky" on the Who's ''The Who Sell Out'' album (1967). Townsend played bass under the pseudonym Bijou Drains; "Something in the Air" 356

'''''Tiatimo meraki''''' 
249; song by Roza Eskenazi

'''''Time Tunnel, The''''' 
A 1966–1967 U.S. color science fiction TV series, starring James Darren; 261

'''Tiny Tim (1932-1996)''' 
Herbert Khaury, better known by the stage name Tiny Tim, was an American singer, ukulele player, and musical archivist. He was most famous for his rendition of "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" sung in a distinctive high falsetto / vibrato voice (his normal singing voice was baritone). He was generally thought of as a novelty act, though his records display a wide knowledge of American songs; "The Ice Caps Are Melting" (from his 1968 debut album), 108. He's also mentioned on pg. 309 of ''Vineland''.

'''Tito''' 
see [[S#tito| Stavrou, Tito]]

'''Todos Santos''' 
99; famed surfing location in Baja Mexico

'''''toloache''''' 
Scientific name is ''Datura inoxia'', native to Central and South America. The Aztecs called the plant ''toloatzin'', and used it long before the Spanish conquest of Mexico for many therapeutic purposes, such as poultices for wounds where it acts as an anodyne. Although the Aztecs warned against madness and "various and vain imaginings", many native Americans have used the plant as an entheogen for hallucinations and rites of passage; Indians smoking it, 355;

'''Tommy's''' 
73; burger joint in Los Angeles where Krishna the fry cook provides joints in the burgers, for a bit extra

'''Tommy James & the Shondells''' 
165; their biggest hits were "Crimson and Clover" (1968) and "I Think We're Along Now" (1967); named after guitarist Troy Shondell, a hero of Tommy James's.

'''Trashmen, The''' 
Rock 'n' roll band formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1962. The group played surf rock which included many elements from garage rock; 37; "Surfin' Bird" (1963), 124

'''Tropicana Motel''' 
273; located at 8585 Santa Monica Blvd in West Hollywood, and torn down in 1980, it was where many rock stars stayed in Los Angeles.

'''Trumbo, Dalton (1905-1976)''' 
254; an American screenwriter and novelist, and one of the Hollywood Ten, a group of film professionals who testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947 during the committee's investigation of Communist influences in the motion picture industry. He refused to give any information and was convicted of contempt of Congress, blacklisted, and in 1950, spent 11 months in prison in the federal penitentiary in Ashland, Kentucky.

'''TRW''' 
54; See "Ramo isn't telling Woolridge"

'''Tubb, Ernest''' 
225; country-western singer

'''Tubeside, Dr. Buddy''' 
13; with whom Doc shares an office "near the airport, off East Imperial"; 289; 360

'''Tujunga Wash''' 
136; a stream in Los Angeles County, California. It is a tributary of the Los Angeles River. It is called a wash because it is usually dry, especially the lower reaches, only carrying significant flows during and after storms, which usually only occur between November and April.

'''Tweedle, Arthur''' 
199; "civilian machinist who worked a regular day shift at the naval weapons stations" and is a member of Vigilant California

'''Tweedle, Cindi''' 
200; Arthur's wife

'''Twong, Zigzag''' 
100; surfer in Gordita Beach who had switched to a shorter surf board

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

'''St. Flip of Lawndale''' 
99; surfer; 256; Shasta staying at his house, 303; his "mythical break" aka Death's Doorsill, 357

'''"Samba do Avião"''' 
162; Portuguese: "song of the jet"; composed by Antonio Carlos Jobim and used in the 1962 film ''Copacabana Palace'' by Italian director Steno (born Stefano Vanzina) (1915-1988)

'''Sanders, George (1906-1972)''' 
Sanders was an Academy Award-winning English film and television actor. Known for his smooth upper-crust English accent, cocking his eyebrows was a facial gesture he deployed in many of his films to express skepticism and other reactions. In 1950, Sanders gave his most widely recognised performance, and achieved his greatest success, as the acerbic, cold-blooded theatre critic Addison DeWitt in ''All About Eve'', winning an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor; 311

'''Sassoon, Vidal (b. 1928)''' 
British-born Israeli hairdresser and businessman; 127

'''scag''' 
334; street slang for "heroin"

'''Schiffer, Mr.''' 
338; Doc's PE teacher in high school

'''Scott''' 
353; Doc's cousin

'''Screaming Ultraviolet Brain''' 
10; headshop operated by Ensenada Slim, in Gordita Beach; 256

'''''Sea Wolf, The'' (1941)''' 
Black-and-white film adaptation of Jack London's novel ''The Sea Wolf'' with Edward G. Robinson, Ida Lupino, and John Garfield. Refined fiction writer Humphrey van Weyden and escaped convict Ruth Webster (Lupino) are passengers on a ship that collides with another vessel and sinks. They are rescued by the ''Ghost'', a seal-hunting ship. At the helm is the brutal Captain Wolf Larsen (Robinson), a compassionless individual who delights in dominating and abusing his crew. Garfield plays the rebellious cabin boy George Leach who becomes Ruth Webster's protector; Doc recalling, 356

'''Shaggy''' 
190; character in Hanna-Barbera cartoon "Scooby-Doo" (1969)

'''Shank, Bud''' 
Clifford Everett "Bud" Shank, Jr. (1926-2009) was an American alto saxophonist and flautist. He played flute in Stan Kenton's Innovations in Modern Music Orchestra, on various recording sessions including ''The Zodiac : Cosmic Sounds'', and occasionally in live performances (as with The L.A. Four) until he gave it up later in his career to focus exclusively on the alto saxophone; at the Lighthouse Cafe, 298

'''Shannon''' 
205; dead waitress at the Arizona Palms, in Doc's dream

'''Shannon, Del (1934-1990)''' 
148; "Runaway"; suffering from depression, Shannon committed suicide in 1990 with a .22-calibre rifle; [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKvCa5lkgUw View a 1982 performance of "Runaway" on YouTube...]

'''Shasta''' 
See [[H#shasta|Hepworth, Shasta Fay]]

'''''shikantaza''''' 
102; Japanese term for zazen introduced by Dogen Zenji and associated most with the Soto school of Zen Buddhism, but which also is "the base of all Zen disciplines."

'''short''' 
333; hipster slang for "car"

'''Sinatra, Frank''' 
61; "exchanging glances" ("Strangers in the Night"); watching Jonathan Frid, in Las Vegas, 233; Sinatroid, 337

'''"single up all lines"''' 
119; a phrase frequently used by Pynchon, likely because of its multiple meanings, metaphorically.

:"single up all lines" is used in its normal nautical context in [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#single_up_all_lines ''V.'', p.11]; [http://cl49.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_2#single_up_all_lines ''The Crying of Lot 49'', p.31]; [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_488-491#single_up_all_lines ''Gravity's Rainbow'', p.489]; [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_26:_257-265#Page_258 ''Mason & Dixon'', pp.258 and 260]; and [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_1-25#Page_3 ''Against the Day'', p.3]. Perhaps we can understand this "line" as a text-string linking Pynchon's novels together (all but [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki ''Vineland'']?). Of course, the fact that ''Vineland'' ''doesn't'' include the phrase sort of throws a spanner in the works!

'''"Skyful of Hearts"''' 
338; song sung by Doc in Sinatroid style, at Kahuna Airlines

'''Skyhook Lodge''' 
115; where Leo & Elmina are staying.

'''Smedley''' 
128; Spotted Dick's keyboard player, "doing Hanon exercises on his Farfisa" he calls Fiona

'''Smilax, Sauncho''' 
26; Doc's attorney at Hardy, Gridley, & Chatfield who practice maritime law; 89; 117; lagan, 267; having seen ''The Wizard of Oz'', 286; 340 [[Sauncho Smilax|DISCUSSION]]; [[Plants of Inherent Vice|Plants of Inherent Vice]]

'''Smith, Bessie''' 
249; Smith (1894–1937) was an American blues singer. Sometimes referred to as "The Empress of the Blues," she is often regarded as one of the greatest singers of her era and a major influence on subsequent jazz vocalists. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Smith Wikipedia]

'''Smith, Maggie''' 
204; Dame Margaret Natalie Smith, DBE (b. 1934), better known as Maggie Smith, is a pre-eminent English film, stage, and television actress who made her stage debut in 1952 and is still performing.

'''Sombrero, El''' 
221; "world-renowed Taqueria in Las Vegas

'''"Something Happened to Me Yesterday"''' 
193; Rolling Stones song on ''Between the Buttons'' (1967)

'''"Something in the Air"''' 
1969 hit for one-hit-wonder UK band Thunderclap Newman. It was originally titled "Revolution" but later renamed to avoid confusion with the Beatles' 1968 song of that name. A sample verse:

:Hand out the arms and ammo''' 
:We're going to blast our way through here''' 
:We've got to get together sooner or later''' 
:Because the revolution's here, and you know it's right''' 
:And you know that it's right

'''Sortilege''' 
11; used to work in Doc's office; Sortilege is the foretelling of the future by drawing lots. Sortilege is a form of Cleromancy, a form of divination using sortition, casting of lots, or casting bones, in which an outcome is determined by means that normally would be considered random, such as the rolling of dice, but that are believed to reveal the will of God or other supernatural entities. Sortition, also known as allotment, is an equal-chance method of selection by some form of lottery such as drawing coloured pebbles from a bag; 101; "telling time from a broken clock" 282

It's apt that the 'sort' in 'Sortilege' comes from the word 'sort', recalling Maxwell's Demon and The Crying of Lot 49. Making it even more appropriate that the 'sorting' being done is the sorting of 'lots'.

'''"Soul Gidget"''' 
155; by Meatball Flag

'''Sound Mind Cafe''' 
172; "a secluded eatery" where Dr. Blatnoyd has first blind date with Japonica

'''Spade, Sam''' 
Sam Spade is a fictional character who is the protagonist of Dashiell Hammett's novel ''The Maltese Falcon'' (1930) and the various films and adaptations based on it, as well as in three lesser known short stories written by Hammett. Known for his cold detachment, keen eye for detail, and unflinching determination to achieve his own justice, Spade is the man who has seen the wretched, the corrupt, the tawdry side of life but still retains his "tarnished idealism"; 97

'''Spaniels, the''' 
American R&B doo-wop group (1952-1974), best known for the hit "Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight." Some historians of vocal groups consider Pookie Hudson to be the first true leader of a vocal group, because the Spaniels pioneered the technique of having the main singer solo at his own microphone, while the rest of the group shared a second microphone. "A Stranger in Love" was recorded for their album ''Heart and Soul Volume Two'' (1958); 368

'''Spanish Words & Phrases''' 
62: ''arrepentimiento'' - sorry about that; also 248-249 
142: ''ése'' - This guy, or just this 
142: ''sinvergüenza'' - shameless 
142: ''esta gente no sabe nada'' - these people know nothing 
144: ''compinches'' - partner in crime 
145: ''hijo de puta'' - son of a bitch 
145: ''otra vez, si?'' - another time, yes? 
174: ''la cabeza'' - the head 
192: ''por vida'' - for life 
224: ''quien es mas macho?'' - who is more manly? 
331: ''palabra'' - word 
338: ''peligro'' - danger 
338: ''vato'' - dude, gangster, homeboy (colloquial)

'''Sparky''' 
195; new kid at Gotcha! adept at the ARPAnet; 258; 267; 364

'''Spike''' 
11; Vietnam veteran and boyfriend of Sortilege; 102

<div id="spivey">'''Spivey, Boris'''</div>
147; "Another member of Mickey's muscle patrol"; Dawnette, his fiance, 148; disappeared, 214; "the second AP Finance alumnus ... who'd hired on with Mickey" 285;

<div id="gilroy">'''Sportello, Gilroy'''</div>
Doc's brother, "the one with the life" 112; in Doc's dream, 205; promoted, 352

'''Sportello, Larry ("Doc")''' 
1; "sportello" is Italian for door or window; his Afro, 14; arrested, 23; is he black? 34; Hawaiian shirt, 77; aka Xpp, 106; going to Chryskylodon Institute, 186; goes to the Kismet in Las Vegas, 235; feeling "evidence everywhere of ancient visitation" in Las Vegas desert, 249; visiting Penny Kimball at the Hall of Justice, 275; tape interview at Hall of Justice, 281; conversation with Thomas Jefferson at the Plastic Nickel, 294; "hopeless stooge of the creditor class" 303; with Shasta, 303-310; negotiating with Crocker Fenway, 346; class-warfare conversation, 347-348

'''Sportello, Leo''' 
112; Doc's father

'''Sportello, Vernix''' 
352; Gilroy's wife

'''Spotted Dick''' 
127; visiting British band, at Boards mansion; Spotted dick is a steamed suet pudding containing dried fruit (usually currants), commonly served with either custard or butter and brown sugar; "George Formby covers, old movie music, regional folk material, plus their own stuff, which tends to be tuneful, poetic ... English" 130; zombies, 132; "Long Trip Out" 198;

'''Staccato, Johnny''' 
97; a private detective series which ran for twenty-seven episodes on NBC from 1959-1960. John Cassavetes played the lead role.

'''''Star Trek''''' 
73; "not logical, Captain" 140; 254; Mr. Spock, 325

'''Stavrou, Inez''' 
183; Tito's wife or girlfriend

<div id="tito">'''Stavrou, Tito'''</div>
181; Doc's friend who runs a limo service and has a gambling habit; in Las Vegas, 227; 335

'''Steamer Lane''' 
363; song Coy plays at the Surfadelic Freak-In up at Will Rogers Park; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steamer_Lane Steamer Lane] is a famous surfing location in Santa Cruz, California.

'''Stewart, James''' 
in ''Vertigo'', 298

'''Stodger, Burke''' 
92; movie star (see ''Paternoster Ruby'' by Charles Edmonds Walk, 1910 - Alexander Stilwell Burke and Stodger, a plain-clothes cop - a ''noir''-ish murder mystery); ''Commie Confidential'', 93; set up Coy with the Viggies, 308; and Shasta, 309; ''.45-Caliber Kissoff'', 309; ''I Was a Red Dope Fiend'' and ''Squeal, Pinko, Squeal'' ("modestly budgeted FBI dramas"), 309; [http://books.google.com/books?id=kd54UWt8QC0C&dq=%22paternoster+ruby%22+%2B+edmonds+%2B+walk&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=mfkolEDFk_&sig=g6LtMmYTkF8eXx7zavBAEgAE1a0&hl=en&ei=aZZPSpzUHpGgswOq8LmqDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1 ''Paternoster Ruby'' on Google Books]

'''''Stone Turntable''''' 
124; fictional "underground fan magazine"

'''Sun-Fary Market''' 
159; where Doc leaves Jason Velveeta

'''"Super Market"''' 
Appeared on Fapardokly's 1966 album ''Fapardokly''; "triple-tongue highway classic" 368

'''Sureños''' 
Group of Mexican American street gangs with origins in the oldest barrios of Southern California. There are hundreds of Sureño gangs in California, and each has its own identity on the streets; Tariq Khalil and Glen Charlock, 290

'''Surfadelic Freak-In''' 
Beer appearing at, 297; Hope and Amethyst's free passes to, in Will Rogers Park, 362

'''Surfaris, The''' 
101; "Wipe Out"

'''Surfer-Lowrider Wars''' 
46

'''"Surfin' Bird"''' 
124; 1963 surf tune by The Trashmen

'''Surfing''' 
"absent surfers" 100; north shore of Oahu, 357

'''swag lamp''' 
4

'''sweep frequency''' 
199; the horizontal sweep frequency of a TV picture is 15,750 Hz. It is based on the fact that 30 frames times 525 (scan) lines equals 15,750.

'''Sybil Brand Institute''' 
135; the Sybil Brand Institute For Women was a famous county jail in Los Angeles County, California. The facility was named after Sybil Brand (1899-2004), a noted local philanthropist and civic leader. Famously, this is where Susan Atkins admitted to another inmate that the Manson Family was responsible for the Tate-LaBianca murders.

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'''natch''' 
''passim''; "natch" is short for "natural," so in drug slang "on the natch" means sober.

'''Nazi''' 
73; The term Nazi derives from the first two syllables of ''Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei'' (National Socialist German Workers’ Party, NSDAP), Hitler's fascist party which ruled Germany from 1933-1945.

'''Nellis Air Force Base''' 
251; a United States Air Force base located in Clark County, Nevada. It is seven nautical miles (13 km) northeast of the central business district of Las Vegas.

'''Nine of Diamonds, The''' 
227; gambling joint in Las Vegas; "the fifth card in Wild Bill Hickok's last poker hand" 228; James Butler Hickok (1837-1876), better known as Wild Bill Hickok, was a figure in the American Old West. His skills as a gunfighter and scout, along with his reputation as a lawman, provided the basis for his fame, although some of his exploits are fictionalized. His horse was named Black Nell.

The nine of diamonds also appears on pg. 24 of ''Against the Day''.

'''Nixon, Richard Milhous.''' 
32; 72; 109; Nixon (1913–1994) was born in Yorba Linda, California, was the 37th President of the United States from 1969–1974 and was also the 36th Vice President of the United States (1953–1961). Nixon was the only President to resign the office and also the only person to be elected twice to both the Presidency and the Vice Presidency. Along with [[R#Reagan| Ronald Reagan]], Nixon served as the embodiment of 'the Establishment', especially to California hippies. 117, 286; on currency; 120; on TV

'''Noguchi, Brother''' 
Thomas T. Noguchi (b. 1927) is a former Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner for the County of Los Angeles, who served in that position from 1967 to 1982. Known as the "coroner to the stars", he determined the cause of death in many high profile cases. He is most famous for performing autopsies on Marilyn Monroe, Robert F. Kennedy and Sharon Tate; 210

'''Noll, Greg''' 
Greg Noll (born 1937), aka "Da Bull" in reference to his way of "charging" down the face of a wave with apparent fearlessness, is a pioneer of big wave surfing; poster in St. Flip's pad, 303

'''Novak, Kim''' (b. 1933) 
Two-time Golden Globe Award-winning American actress. She is best known for her performance in the classic 1958 film Vertigo. She retired from acting in 1991 and is now an artist of watercolor and oil paintings, sculpture and stained glass design; in ''Vertigo'', 298

'''''Now, Voyager'' (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; 147

'''Nuestra Familia''' 
Criminal organization of Mexican American (Chicano) prison gangs with origins in Northern California; Tariq Khalil and Glen Charlock, 290

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

'''St. Flip of Lawndale''' 
99; surfer; 256; Shasta staying at his house, 303; his "mythical break" aka Death's Doorsill, 357

'''"Samba do Avião"''' 
162; Portuguese: "song of the jet"; composed by Antonio Carlos Jobim and used in the 1962 film ''Copacabana Palace'' by Italian director Steno (born Stefano Vanzina) (1915-1988)

'''Sanders, George (1906-1972)''' 
Sanders was an Academy Award-winning English film and television actor. Known for his smooth upper-crust English accent, cocking his eyebrows was a facial gesture he deployed in many of his films to express skepticism and other reactions. In 1950, Sanders gave his most widely recognised performance, and achieved his greatest success, as the acerbic, cold-blooded theatre critic Addison DeWitt in ''All About Eve'', winning an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor; 311

'''Sassoon, Vidal (b. 1928)''' 
British-born Israeli hairdresser and businessman; 127

'''scag''' 
334; street slang for "heroin"

'''Schiffer, Mr.''' 
338; Doc's PE teacher in high school

'''Scott''' 
353; Doc's cousin

'''Screaming Ultraviolet Brain''' 
10; headshop operated by Ensenada Slim, in Gordita Beach; 256

'''''Sea Wolf, The'' (1941)''' 
Black-and-white film adaptation of Jack London's novel ''The Sea Wolf'' with Edward G. Robinson, Ida Lupino, and John Garfield. Refined fiction writer Humphrey van Weyden and escaped convict Ruth Webster (Lupino) are passengers on a ship that collides with another vessel and sinks. They are rescued by the ''Ghost'', a seal-hunting ship. At the helm is the brutal Captain Wolf Larsen (Robinson), a compassionless individual who delights in dominating and abusing his crew. Garfield plays the rebellious cabin boy George Leach who becomes Ruth Webster's protector; Doc recalling, 356

'''Shaggy''' 
190; character in Hanna-Barbera cartoon "Scooby-Doo" (1969)

'''Shank, Bud''' 
Clifford Everett "Bud" Shank, Jr. (1926-2009) was an American alto saxophonist and flautist. He played flute in Stan Kenton's Innovations in Modern Music Orchestra, on various recording sessions including ''The Zodiac : Cosmic Sounds'', and occasionally in live performances (as with The L.A. Four) until he gave it up later in his career to focus exclusively on the alto saxophone; at the Lighthouse Cafe, 298

'''Shannon''' 
205; dead waitress at the Arizona Palms, in Doc's dream

'''Shannon, Del (1934-1990)''' 
148; "Runaway"; suffering from depression, Shannon committed suicide in 1990 with a .22-calibre rifle; [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKvCa5lkgUw View a 1982 performance of "Runaway" on YouTube...]

'''Shasta''' 
See [[H#shasta|Hepworth, Shasta Fay]]

'''''shikantaza''''' 
102; Japanese term for zazen introduced by Dogen Zenji and associated most with the Soto school of Zen Buddhism, but which also is "the base of all Zen disciplines."

'''short''' 
333; hipster slang for "car"

'''Sinatra, Frank''' 
61; "exchanging glances" ("Strangers in the Night"); watching Jonathan Frid, in Las Vegas, 233; Sinatroid, 337

'''"single up all lines"''' 
119; a phrase frequently used by Pynchon, likely because of its multiple meanings, metaphorically.

:"single up all lines" is used in its normal nautical context in [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#single_up_all_lines ''V.'', p.11]; [http://cl49.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_2#single_up_all_lines ''The Crying of Lot 49'', p.31]; [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_488-491#single_up_all_lines ''Gravity's Rainbow'', p.489]; [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_26:_257-265#Page_258 ''Mason & Dixon'', pp.258 and 260]; and [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_1-25#Page_3 ''Against the Day'', p.3]. Perhaps we can understand this "line" as a text-string linking Pynchon's novels together (all but [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki ''Vineland'']?). Of course, the fact that ''Vineland'' ''doesn't'' include the phrase sort of throws a spanner in the works!

'''"Skyful of Hearts"''' 
338; song sung by Doc in Sinatroid style, at Kahuna Airlines

'''Skyhook Lodge''' 
115; where Leo & Elmina are staying.

'''Smedley''' 
128; Spotted Dick's keyboard player, "doing Hanon exercises on his Farfisa" he calls Fiona

'''Smilax, Sauncho''' 
26; Doc's attorney at Hardy, Gridley, & Chatfield who practice maritime law; 89; 117; lagan, 267; having seen ''The Wizard of Oz'', 286; 340 [[Sauncho Smilax|DISCUSSION]]; [[Plants of Inherent Vice|Plants of Inherent Vice]]

'''Smith, Bessie''' 
249; Smith (1894–1937) was an American blues singer. Sometimes referred to as "The Empress of the Blues," she is often regarded as one of the greatest singers of her era and a major influence on subsequent jazz vocalists. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Smith Wikipedia]

'''Smith, Maggie''' 
204; Dame Margaret Natalie Smith, DBE (b. 1934), better known as Maggie Smith, is a pre-eminent English film, stage, and television actress who made her stage debut in 1952 and is still performing.

'''Sombrero, El''' 
221; "world-renowed Taqueria in Las Vegas

'''"Something Happened to Me Yesterday"''' 
193; Rolling Stones song on ''Between the Buttons'' (1967)

'''"Something in the Air"''' 
1969 hit for one-hit-wonder UK band Thunderclap Newman. It was originally titled "Revolution" but later renamed to avoid confusion with the Beatles' 1968 song of that name. A sample verse:

:Hand out the arms and ammo''' 
:We're going to blast our way through here''' 
:We've got to get together sooner or later''' 
:Because the revolution's here, and you know it's right''' 
:And you know that it's right

'''Sortilege''' 
11; used to work in Doc's office; Sortilege is the foretelling of the future by drawing lots. Sortilege is a form of Cleromancy, a form of divination using sortition, casting of lots, or casting bones, in which an outcome is determined by means that normally would be considered random, such as the rolling of dice, but that are believed to reveal the will of God or other supernatural entities. Sortition, also known as allotment, is an equal-chance method of selection by some form of lottery such as drawing coloured pebbles from a bag; 101; "telling time from a broken clock" 282

It's apt that the 'sort' in 'Sortilege' comes from the word 'sort', recalling Maxwell's Demon and The Crying of Lot 49. Making it even more appropriate that the 'sorting' being done is the sorting of 'lots'.

'''"Soul Gidget"''' 
155; by Meatball Flag

'''Sound Mind Cafe''' 
172; "a secluded eatery" where Dr. Blatnoyd has first blind date with Japonica

'''Spade, Sam''' 
Sam Spade is a fictional character who is the protagonist of Dashiell Hammett's novel ''The Maltese Falcon'' (1930) and the various films and adaptations based on it, as well as in three lesser known short stories written by Hammett. Known for his cold detachment, keen eye for detail, and unflinching determination to achieve his own justice, Spade is the man who has seen the wretched, the corrupt, the tawdry side of life but still retains his "tarnished idealism"; 97

'''Spaniels, the''' 
American R&B doo-wop group (1952-1974), best known for the hit "Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight." Some historians of vocal groups consider Pookie Hudson to be the first true leader of a vocal group, because the Spaniels pioneered the technique of having the main singer solo at his own microphone, while the rest of the group shared a second microphone. "A Stranger in Love" was recorded for their album ''Heart and Soul Volume Two'' (1958); 368

'''Spanish Words & Phrases''' 
142: ''ése'' - This guy, or just this 
142: ''sinvergüenza'' - shameless 
142: ''esta gente no sabe nada'' - these people know nothing 
144: ''compinches'' - partner in crime 
145: ''hijo de puta'' - son of a bitch 
145: ''otra vez, si?'' - another time, yes? 
174: ''la cabeza'' - the head 
192: ''por vida'' - for life 
224: ''quien es mas macho?'' - who is more manly? 
331: ''palabra'' - word 
338: ''peligro'' - danger 
338: ''vato'' - dude, gangster, homeboy (colloquial)

'''Sparky''' 
195; new kid at Gotcha! adept at the ARPAnet; 258; 267; 364

'''Spike''' 
11; Vietnam veteran and boyfriend of Sortilege; 102

<div id="spivey">'''Spivey, Boris'''</div>
147; "Another member of Mickey's muscle patrol"; Dawnette, his fiance, 148; disappeared, 214; "the second AP Finance alumnus ... who'd hired on with Mickey" 285;

<div id="gilroy">'''Sportello, Gilroy'''</div>
Doc's brother, "the one with the life" 112; in Doc's dream, 205; promoted, 352

'''Sportello, Larry ("Doc")''' 
1; "sportello" is Italian for door or window; his Afro, 14; arrested, 23; is he black? 34; Hawaiian shirt, 77; aka Xpp, 106; going to Chryskylodon Institute, 186; goes to the Kismet in Las Vegas, 235; feeling "evidence everywhere of ancient visitation" in Las Vegas desert, 249; visiting Penny Kimball at the Hall of Justice, 275; tape interview at Hall of Justice, 281; conversation with Thomas Jefferson at the Plastic Nickel, 294; "hopeless stooge of the creditor class" 303; with Shasta, 303-310; negotiating with Crocker Fenway, 346; class-warfare conversation, 347-348

'''Sportello, Leo''' 
112; Doc's father

'''Sportello, Vernix''' 
352; Gilroy's wife

'''Spotted Dick''' 
127; visiting British band, at Boards mansion; Spotted dick is a steamed suet pudding containing dried fruit (usually currants), commonly served with either custard or butter and brown sugar; "George Formby covers, old movie music, regional folk material, plus their own stuff, which tends to be tuneful, poetic ... English" 130; zombies, 132; "Long Trip Out" 198;

'''Staccato, Johnny''' 
97; a private detective series which ran for twenty-seven episodes on NBC from 1959-1960. John Cassavetes played the lead role.

'''''Star Trek''''' 
73; "not logical, Captain" 140; 254; Mr. Spock, 325

'''Stavrou, Inez''' 
183; Tito's wife or girlfriend

'''Stavrou, Tito''' 
181; Doc's friend who runs a limo service and has a gambling habit; in Las Vegas, 227; 335

'''Steamer Lane''' 
363; song Coy plays at the Surfadelic Freak-In up at Will Rogers Park; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steamer_Lane Steamer Lane] is a famous surfing location in Santa Cruz, California.

'''Stewart, James''' 
in ''Vertigo'', 298

'''Stodger, Burke''' 
92; movie star (see ''Paternoster Ruby'' by Charles Edmonds Walk, 1910 - Alexander Stilwell Burke and Stodger, a plain-clothes cop - a ''noir''-ish murder mystery); ''Commie Confidential'', 93; set up Coy with the Viggies, 308; and Shasta, 309; ''.45-Caliber Kissoff'', 309; ''I Was a Red Dope Fiend'' and ''Squeal, Pinko, Squeal'' ("modestly budgeted FBI dramas"), 309; [http://books.google.com/books?id=kd54UWt8QC0C&dq=%22paternoster+ruby%22+%2B+edmonds+%2B+walk&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=mfkolEDFk_&sig=g6LtMmYTkF8eXx7zavBAEgAE1a0&hl=en&ei=aZZPSpzUHpGgswOq8LmqDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1 ''Paternoster Ruby'' on Google Books]

'''''Stone Turntable''''' 
124; fictional "underground fan magazine"

'''Sun-Fary Market''' 
159; where Doc leaves Jason Velveeta

'''"Super Market"''' 
Appeared on Fapardokly's 1966 album ''Fapardokly''; "triple-tongue highway classic" 368

'''Sureños''' 
Group of Mexican American street gangs with origins in the oldest barrios of Southern California. There are hundreds of Sureño gangs in California, and each has its own identity on the streets; Tariq Khalil and Glen Charlock, 290

'''Surfadelic Freak-In''' 
Beer appearing at, 297; Hope and Amethyst's free passes to, in Will Rogers Park, 362

'''Surfaris, The''' 
101; "Wipe Out"

'''Surfer-Lowrider Wars''' 
46

'''"Surfin' Bird"''' 
124; 1963 surf tune by The Trashmen

'''Surfing''' 
"absent surfers" 100; north shore of Oahu, 357

'''swag lamp''' 
4

'''sweep frequency''' 
199; the horizontal sweep frequency of a TV picture is 15,750 Hz. It is based on the fact that 30 frames times 525 (scan) lines equals 15,750.

'''Sybil Brand Institute''' 
135; the Sybil Brand Institute For Women was a famous county jail in Los Angeles County, California. The facility was named after Sybil Brand (1899-2004), a noted local philanthropist and civic leader. Famously, this is where Susan Atkins admitted to another inmate that the Manson Family was responsible for the Tate-LaBianca murders.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Robinson, Edward G. ("Eddie") (1893-1973)''' 
Honorary Academy Award-winning American actor born in Romania, he has played a wide range of characters, and is best remembered for his roles as a gangster, most notably in his breakthrough film ''Little Caesar'' (1930).

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

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

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

'''Rolling Stones''' 
193; "Something Happened to Me Yesterday" from their 1967 album ''Between the Buttons''

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

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

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

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

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

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'''natch''' 
''passim''; "natch" is short for "natural," so in drug slang "on the natch" means sober.

'''Nazi''' 
73

'''Nellis Air Force Base''' 
251; a United States Air Force base located in Clark County, Nevada. It is seven nautical miles (13 km) northeast of the central business district of Las Vegas.

'''Nine of Diamonds, The''' 
227; gambling joint in Las Vegas; "the fifth card in Wild Bill Hickok's last poker hand" 228; James Butler Hickok (1837-1876), better known as Wild Bill Hickok, was a figure in the American Old West. His skills as a gunfighter and scout, along with his reputation as a lawman, provided the basis for his fame, although some of his exploits are fictionalized. His horse was named Black Nell.

The nine of diamonds also appears on pg. 24 of ''Against the Day''.

'''Nixon, Richard Milhous.''' 
32; 72; 109; Nixon (1913–1994) was born in Yorba Linda, California, was the 37th President of the United States from 1969–1974 and was also the 36th Vice President of the United States (1953–1961). Nixon was the only President to resign the office and also the only person to be elected twice to both the Presidency and the Vice Presidency. Along with [[R#Reagan| Ronald Reagan]], Nixon served as the embodiment of 'the Establishment', especially to California hippies. 117, 286; on currency; 120; on TV

'''Noguchi, Brother''' 
Thomas T. Noguchi (b. 1927) is a former Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner for the County of Los Angeles, who served in that position from 1967 to 1982. Known as the "coroner to the stars", he determined the cause of death in many high profile cases. He is most famous for performing autopsies on Marilyn Monroe, Robert F. Kennedy and Sharon Tate; 210

'''Noll, Greg''' 
Greg Noll (born 1937), aka "Da Bull" in reference to his way of "charging" down the face of a wave with apparent fearlessness, is a pioneer of big wave surfing; poster in St. Flip's pad, 303

'''Novak, Kim''' (b. 1933) 
Two-time Golden Globe Award-winning American actress. She is best known for her performance in the classic 1958 film Vertigo. She retired from acting in 1991 and is now an artist of watercolor and oil paintings, sculpture and stained glass design; in ''Vertigo'', 298

'''''Now, Voyager'' (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; 147

'''Nuestra Familia''' 
Criminal organization of Mexican American (Chicano) prison gangs with origins in Northern California; Tariq Khalil and Glen Charlock, 290

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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])

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

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

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

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

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

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

==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.

==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).

==Page 30==
'''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==
'''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 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 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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==Page 111==
There is no direct cue from the narrator that this the next day, but considering that Doc spent the night tripping, and now Aunt Reet's office is open, it's safe to assume that this is the seventh day of the narrative, Monday, March 30, 1970.

'''Arbolada Savings and Loan in Ojai''' 
While the actual bank is apparently fictional, there is a neighborhood in the Ojai Valley named "Arbolada." It is, at least today, one the most expensive and desirable neighborhoods in the area. In Spanish, "arbolada" refers to a woodland.

'''Theosophists''' 
Theosophy is a doctrine of religious philosophy (according to Wikipedia) which holds that all religions are related to a higher truth. The Theosophical Society in America operates an institute called Krotona in Ojai, near the fictional Chryskylodon.

==Page 113==
'''Doc was home watching division semifinals between the 76ers and Milwaukee''' 
Pynchon has given a clue that helps to locate the narrative in real time: the NBA playoffs. The Eastern Division Semifinals took place on Wednesday, March 25, Friday, March 27, Monday, March 30, Wednesday, April 1 and Friday, April 3, 1970. That makes this day Monday, March 30.

[[File:1969Oldsmobile.jpg|thumb|right|1969 Oldsmobile, photo by [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1969_Oldsmobile_Ninety-Eight-3.jpg Stripedtomato]]]
'''Leo and Elmina Sportello's 1969 Oldsmobile'''
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==Page 114==
'''a spot just down the hill good at least till midnight''' 
Night, the seventh day of the narrative, Monday, March 30, 1970.

==Page 115==
'''Skyhook Lodge''' 
A ''skyhook'' has the crane-like ability to hoist an object into the air on a strong line attached to the object via hook but not attached to anything at the skyward end. While the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyhook skyhook] has long been in use for sundry purposes, its best use to date has been in a philosophical context as discussed [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin's_Dangerous_Idea here].

==Page 116==
'''Cora Smith''' 
Also from the novel [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Postman_Always_Rings_Twice ''The Postman Always Rings Twice'']. This is another detective favorite of Pynchon from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_M._Cain James M. Cain] (1892-1977), the other being [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Indemnity_(novel) ''Double Indemnity'']. Cora, a ''femme fatale'' figure, is tired of her life, married to an older man she doesn't love and working in a diner that she wishes she could own and improve. She meets a young drifter, Frank Chambers, and they very soon begin a passionate affair and eventually scheme to murder Cora's husband in order to start a new life together without Cora losing the diner.

The 1946 movie version starred John Garfield, making this one of the more oblique of Pynchon's numerous references to Garfield in this book.

'''Later, though, around three A.M.''' 
Very late night, the seventh day of the narrative, Monday, March 30, 1970.

==Page 117==
[[File:289_Mustang.jpg|thumb|right|Maroon 289 Mustang]]
'''a maroon 289 Mustang''' 
Sauncho's classic beach-town ride. 

'''Next morning, waiting for the coffee''' 
Morning, the eighth day of the narrative, Tuesday, March 31, 1970.

==Page 118==
'''[http://skepdic.com/sympathetic.html sympathetic magic]''' 
Sympathetic magic is based on the metaphysical belief that like affects like.

'''The Way to His Heart''' 
This fictional soap opera is filled with recipes because "The way to a man's heart is through his stomach."

==Page 119==
'''Charlie the fucking Tuna''' 
Charlie the Tuna is a cartoon character and mascot for StarKist Tuna. You can see his "designer shades" and "beret" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_the_Tuna here].

'''single up all lines''' 
A phrase frequently used by Pynchon in all his novels except ''Vineland'', likely because of its multiple meanings, metaphorically.

:"single up all lines" is used in its normal nautical context in [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#single_up_all_lines ''V.'', pp. 11 & 438]; [http://cl49.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_2#single_up_all_lines ''The Crying of Lot 49'', p.31]; [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_488-491#single_up_all_lines ''Gravity's Rainbow'', p.489]; [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_26:_257-265#Page_258 ''Mason & Dixon'', pp.258 and 260]; and [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_1-25#Page_3 ''Against the Day'', p.3]. Perhaps we can understand this "line" as a text-string linking Pynchon's novels together (all but [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki ''Vineland'']?). Of course, the fact that ''Vineland'' ''doesn't'' include the phrase sort of throws a spanner in the works, as far as assigning ''meaning''!

==Page 120==
'''That evening over at Penny's place''' 
Evening, the eighth day of the narrative, Tuesday, March 31, 1970.

This whole scene is odd, though, since the last time Doc saw Penny (page 72) she handed him over to the FBI, but this isn't mentioned here at all... Perhaps an instance of Dark Shadows-type parallel time.

'''if it's Fascism for Freedom? I... can... dig it!''' 
An echo, perhaps, of Barry Goldwater's quote, "I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice." [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/daily/may98/goldwaterspeech.htm washingtonpost.com].

==Page 121==
'''yet another Hitler documentary''' 
The "another" implies that they had watched other Hitler documentaries - the most famous being Leni Riefenstahl's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_of_the_will ''Triumph of the Will'']. The description of the Nixon rally that Doc is watching has similarities to ''Triumph''.

One of Pynchon's research materials for writing [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow''] was a book called ''From Caligari to Hitler'' by Siegfried Kracauer.

Note that [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_of_the_will ''Triumph of the Will''] was a favorite film of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._Gordon_Liddy G. Gordon Liddy], a main figure in the Watergate scandal that enveloped President Nixon, whose televised rally Penny mistakes for a Hitler documentary.

==Page 122==
'''fuck Spiro, too!''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiro_Agnew Spiro Agnew] was Nixon's Vice President.

'''Anybody know the dog's name?''' 
Yes. While [http://www.infoplease.com/biography/var/checkers.html Checkers] was Nixon's most famous dog, by the time Nixon got to the White House, Checkers was long gone. While President, Nixon's dog was King Timahoe. Tricia had a Yorkie named Pasha, and Julie had a poodle named Vickie. You can read about it [http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forkids/trivia.php here]. 
Pascha is the Greek Orthodox name for Easter.

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

==Page 123==
'''Rick Doppel''' 
'Doppel' means 'double' in German and might refer here to the 'doppelganger'-motif or shifting identities in a more general way. The theme seems to be prominent in this chapter. The films mentioned on p.115 belong in this context, for example. In ''Black Narcissus'', Kathleen Byron's character, Sister Ruth, can be seen as the dark double of Deborah Kerr's Sister Clodagh. In Robert Wiene's ''Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari'', the somnambulist Cesare commits crimes when he is under the hypnotic spell of the title figure; Caligari himself may be director of a circus attraction or of a psychiatric hospital. In Fritz Lang's ''Metropolis'', a character called Maria is replaced by a robot.

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'''McGarrett, Steve''' 
97; Steve McGarrett is a fictional character in the long running (12 seasons, 1968-1980) crime drama television series ''Hawaii Five-O''. McGarrett was the lead character in the series with a regular supporting cast. Throughout the series he was a fictional police officer; 202;

'''McNutley, Trevor "Shiny Mac"''' 
132; Spotted Dick's bass player; 156

'''McPherson, Aimee Semple (1890-1944)''' 
238; often called Sister Aimee, she was a Canadian-born evangelist and media sensation in the 1920s and 1930s who founded the Foursquare Church. She was a pioneer in the use of modern media, especially radio, which she used to create a form of religion that drew heavily on the appeal of popular entertainment. On May 18, 1926, McPherson went to Ocean Park Beach, north of Venice Beach, with her secretary, to go swimming. Soon after arrival, McPherson disappeared. It was generally assumed at the time that she had drowned. On June 23, 1926, just weeks after her disappearance, McPherson stumbled out of the desert in Agua Prieta, Sonora, a Mexican town just across the border from Douglas, Arizona. She claimed that she had been kidnapped, drugged, tortured, and held for ransom in a shack in Mexico, then had escaped and walked through the desert for about 13 hours to freedom. However, she'd really run off with her lover, Kenneth G. Ormiston, an engineer at radio station KFSG.

'''magazines''' 
169; a bunch

'''Magda''' 
96; waitress at Zucky's; 367

'''magenta & green''' 
See [[G#greenmagenta|green and magenta]]

'''Magic Kingdom''' 
Disneyland is an American theme park in Anaheim, California, owned and operated by the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts division of The Walt Disney Company. It opened to the general public July 18, 1955. "The Magic Kingdom" was used as an unofficial nickname for Disneyland before the Walt Disney World Resort was opened in 1971; "Happy and Dopey ... skipping around" 33

'''mah-jongg''' 
81: Ancient Chinese game of skill, strategy, calculation and luck, played with ivory and bamboo tiles. It was introduced in the United States in the 1920s and became popular here. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mah_Jong Wikipedia entry]

'''Makaha of Sound''' 
37; more like wall of a wave

'''Malloy, Pete''' 
202; The TV show ''Adam-12'' (1968-1975) followed the daily activities of a pair of LAPD patrol officers – seven-year veteran officer Peter 'Pete' Malloy (Martin Milner) and rookie officer James 'Jim' Reed (Kent McCord). Like ''Dragnet'', the episodes were based on true incidents culled from LAPD case files.

'''Man of La Muncha''' 
256; one of Doc's hangouts, in Gordita Beach

'''Manson, Charles ("Charlie")''' 
29; 38; 53; 119; 135; 138; 179; "D'Jack Frost" - the Family's "favorite surplus store in Santa Monica" 199; Cielo Drive, 208; 209; 280; 292; Doc's thing for Manson chicks, 304; 308; 311; Bigfoot, 332

'''Manuel''' 
181; owner of Resurrection of the Body

'''Mao Zedong''', aka "Chairman Mao" 
301; 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.

'''Marcuse, Herbert''' 
301; 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.

'''Marketts, the''' 
134; early 1960s American instrumental pop group, formed in Hollywood, California. Their biggest surf hit was "Outer Limits" in 1964. They may be the model for the Boards, because their line-up constantly changed, being made up of various session musicians from the Los Angeles area. They took their direction from producer Joe Saraceno who took the group's style in whatever direction he thought would catch the record-buying public's ear. "Here Comes the Ho-dads," not "[http://www.youtube.com/jglassow#play/all/1/0ZF98gNGvtA Here Come the Hodads]" as Pynchon writes in minor variation, was a song released on their 1963 album The Surfing Scene. Sid Meier's "Civilization II: Conflicts in Civilization Scenarios" includes this scenario: "Alien Invasion (sometime in the future) - Here come the Hodads! Vicious monsters from space have landed and already devastated most of the Earth's population. Who will stop them?"

''Surfer slang'': A "Hodad" is one of those guys who has a surfboard, but never surfs. A fake surfer, usually more interested in the gals. See [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hodad Urban Dictionary]

'''Marlowe, Philip''' 
97; famous fictional PI created by Raymond Chandler

'''Martin, Dean''' 
233; watching Jonathan Frid in Las Vegas; 245

'''Marx, Gummo''' 
283; fourth Marx brother. More [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gummo_Marx here].

'''masse shots''' 
148; A steep curve or complete reversal of cue ball direction without the necessity of any rail or object ball being struck, due to extreme spin imparted to the cue ball by a steeply elevated cue. Can damage a pool table's felt.

'''Mavericks''' 
99; Northern California big-wave surfing location, in Half Moon Bay (Pynchon's use is anacronistic); first surfed in 1961 but deemed too dangerous by the trio that attempted it; not surfed again until 1975 by Jeff Clark who surfed Mavericks alone until 1990 when word got out. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mavericks_%28location%29 Trivia alert]: Apparently named after a dog who swam out with the first people who tried to surf the wave.

'''May Company''' 
348; where Doc and Crocker Fenway plan to conduct exchange

'''Meatball Flag''' 
155; fictional band, "Soul Gidget"; in auto racing, a "meatball" flag is a black flag with an orange disk in its center, which indicates that a car is being summoned to the pits due to mechanical problems that are interfering with the race, such as an oil, water, or fuel leak. The name is likely a reference to the nickname the Allies gave to the Japanese flag, which is white with a red circle in the middle: "meatball" flag.

'''Mehta, Zubin (b. 1936)''' 
148; Music Director of Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra from 1962-1978

'''Mercy''' 
354; bartender at Linus's Tavern near San Pedro; 359

'''Merman, Ethel''' 
221; Puck's and Einar's impersonation of "No Business Like Show Business"; "You're Not Sick, You're Just in Love" 247; "Everything's Coming Up Roses" from ''Gypsy: A Musical Fable'', 247

<div id="carolmerrill">'''Merrill, Carol'''</div>
47; assistant on TV game show ''Let's Make a Deal''

'''MGM''' 
Metro Goldwyn Mayer - In 1957, the studio reported a loss for the first time in its history. Hollywood as a whole was in trouble by then anyway, thanks to television and the decline of the star contract system on which the studios' power depended. Ten years later, MGM was bought by Kirk Kerkorian, an old-style American buccaneer who had made his fortune flying visitors to Las Vegas. The following year, thousands of props, costumes and other priceless memorabilia went under the auctioneer's hammer. The auction, which lasted for weeks, occurred in April 1970 and Judy Garland's Ruby Slippers from ''The Wizard of Oz'' was one of the lots sold; auction, 125, 344

'''Michelangelo''' 
''Creation of Adam, The'', 124; ''Last Supper'', 137

'''Midnight Special''' 
315; an inexpensive American pale ale, now discontinued.

'''Mighty Mouse''' 
40

'''Mike''' 
183; owner of Teke Greek restaurant

'''Mildred''' 
303; Shasta's dog

'''''Mildred Pierce'' (1945)''' 
Based on the 1941 novel by James M. Cain, ''Mildred Pierce'' is a Warner Bros. feature film starring Joan Crawford in a noir-ish tale about a sacrificing mother and her ungrateful daughter. It was Crawford's first film for Warners after leaving MGM. Veda is Mildred's daughter in the film. In the novel, Mildred attempts to strange Veda; 360

'''Milton''' 
52; bookkeeper at Gotcha!; 94

'''Mira Costa''' 
103; high school attended by Spike and Sortilege

'''''Mod Squad, The''''' 
32; 97; 123; Popular hour long cop drama that aired on ABC from '68-73. Aaron Spelling produced. The three cops were young adults who often went undercover. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mod_Squad Wikipedia Entry]

'''Modern Institute for Cognitive Repatterning and Overhaul ("MICRO")''' 
55; Doc's made-up "private clinic out near Hacienda Heights" that specializes in "repairs of stressed personalities"

'''Moe''' 
80; one of the Three Stooges

'''''Monkees''''' 
232; A pop rock quartet assembled by Robert "Bob" Rafelson and Bert Schneider in Los Angeles in 1966 for the American television series'' The Monkees'', which aired from 1966 to 1968. The members were Americans Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith, Peter Tork, and Englishman Davy Jones. Although the show was canceled in 1968, the band continued releasing records until 1970.

'''Morrison, Jim''' 
77; Morrison (1943-1971) was the lead singer and main lyricist for the rock group The Doors. 'Before you slip into unconsciousness" is the opening line from 'The Crystal Ship' which was on The Doors 1967 self-titled debut album.

'''Moses, Robert (1888-1981)''' 
58; the quote is real and basically means that in urban development the ends justify the means. Moses was "master builder" of mid-20th century New York City, Long Island, and Westchester County, New York. As the shaper of a modern city, he is one of the most polarizing figures in the history of urban planning in the United States. Although never elected to public office, he was arguably the most powerful person in New York state government from the 1930s to the 1950s. He changed shorelines, built roadways in the sky, and transformed neighborhoods forever. His decisions favoring highways over public transit helped create the modern suburbs of Long Island and influenced a generation of engineers, architects, and urban planners who spread his philosophies across the nation.

'''Murphy, George (1902-1992)''' 
American dancer, actor, and politician; he played Roger in the 1938 film ''Little Miss Broadway'' and performed a song-and-dance duet with Shirley Temple, "We Should Be Together."; 360

'''Musso & Frank's''' 
Musso & Frank Grill is a world famous restaurant located at 6667 Hollywood Boulevard in the Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Opened in 1919, it is steeped in Hollywood history, having been the hideout of a host of famous Hollywood celebrities from days gone by. It is named for original owners Joseph Musso and Frank Toulet; Burke Stodger hangout, 310

'''Myrna''' 
127; house wirehair dog at Boards mansion

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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...]

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'''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.

'''Wrong shoes.''' 
As Doc himself pointed out on page 21, when Jade asked if he was a cop.

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'''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].

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'''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.]

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'''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.

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'''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.

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'''Rosa Eskenazi''' 
Eskenazi (1890-1980) was a famous Greek singer of Rebetiko and traditional Greek music from Asia Minor. Her recording career extended from the late 1920s into the 1970s. Her style was called Rebetiko, a type of Greek urban folk music that combines European and Middle Eastern music, and sometimes called the Greek blues, the themes being predominantly hard-luck women, no-good men, drinking, hashish and poverty.

'''Bessie Smith''' 
Smith (1894–1937) was an American blues singer. Sometimes referred to as "The Empress of the Blues," she is often regarded as one of the greatest singers of her era and a major influence on subsequent jazz vocalists. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Smith Wikipedia]

'''''rembetissas''''' 
female singers of Rebetiko music (see Rosa Eskenazi above)

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

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'''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.

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'''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'']?

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

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'''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]

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'''...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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'''McGarrett, Steve''' 
97; Steve McGarrett is a fictional character in the long running (12 seasons, 1968-1980) crime drama television series ''Hawaii Five-O''. McGarrett was the lead character in the series with a regular supporting cast. Throughout the series he was a fictional police officer; 202;

'''McNutley, Trevor "Shiny Mac"''' 
132; Spotted Dick's bass player; 156

'''McPherson, Aimee Semple (1890-1944)''' 
238; often called Sister Aimee, she was a Canadian-born evangelist and media sensation in the 1920s and 1930s who founded the Foursquare Church. She was a pioneer in the use of modern media, especially radio, which she used to create a form of religion that drew heavily on the appeal of popular entertainment. On May 18, 1926, McPherson went to Ocean Park Beach, north of Venice Beach, with her secretary, to go swimming. Soon after arrival, McPherson disappeared. It was generally assumed at the time that she had drowned. On June 23, 1926, just weeks after her disappearance, McPherson stumbled out of the desert in Agua Prieta, Sonora, a Mexican town just across the border from Douglas, Arizona. She claimed that she had been kidnapped, drugged, tortured, and held for ransom in a shack in Mexico, then had escaped and walked through the desert for about 13 hours to freedom. However, she'd really run off with her lover, Kenneth G. Ormiston, an engineer at radio station KFSG.

'''magazines''' 
169; a bunch

'''Magda''' 
96; waitress at Zucky's; 367

'''magenta & green''' 
See [[G#greenmagenta|green and magenta]]

'''Magic Kingdom''' 
Disneyland is an American theme park in Anaheim, California, owned and operated by the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts division of The Walt Disney Company. It opened to the general public July 18, 1955. "The Magic Kingdom" was used as an unofficial nickname for Disneyland before the Walt Disney World Resort was opened in 1971; "Happy and Dopey ... skipping around" 33

'''mah-jongg''' 
81: Ancient Chinese game of skill, strategy, calculation and luck, played with ivory and bamboo tiles. It was introduced in the United States in the 1920s and became popular here. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mah_Jong Wikipedia entry]

'''Makaha of Sound''' 
37; more like wall of a wave

'''Malloy, Pete''' 
202; The TV show ''Adam-12'' (1968-1975) followed the daily activities of a pair of LAPD patrol officers – seven-year veteran officer Peter 'Pete' Malloy (Martin Milner) and rookie officer James 'Jim' Reed (Kent McCord). Like ''Dragnet'', the episodes were based on true incidents culled from LAPD case files.

'''Man of La Muncha''' 
256; one of Doc's hangouts, in Gordita Beach

'''Manson, Charles ("Charlie")''' 
29; 38; 53; 119; 135; 138; 179; "D'Jack Frost" - the Family's "favorite surplus store in Santa Monica" 199; Cielo Drive, 208; 209; 280; 292; Doc's thing for Manson chicks, 304; 308; 311; Bigfoot, 332

'''Manuel''' 
181; owner of Resurrection of the Body

'''Mao Zedong''', aka "Chairman Mao" 
301; 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.

'''Marcuse, Herbert''' 
301; 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.

'''Marketts, the''' 
134; early 1960s American instrumental pop group, formed in Hollywood, California. Their biggest surf hit was "Outer Limits" in 1964. They may be the model for the Boards, because their line-up constantly changed, being made up of various session musicians from the Los Angeles area. They took their direction from producer Joe Saraceno who took the group's style in whatever direction he thought would catch the record-buying public's ear. "Here Comes the Ho-dads," not "[http://www.youtube.com/jglassow#play/all/1/0ZF98gNGvtA Here Come the Hodads]" as Pynchon writes in minor variation, was a song released on their 1963 album The Surfing Scene. Sid Meier's "Civilization II: Conflicts in Civilization Scenarios" includes this scenario: "Alien Invasion (sometime in the future) - Here come the Hodads! Vicious monsters from space have landed and already devastated most of the Earth's population. Who will stop them?"

''Surfer slang'': A "Hodad" is one of those guys who has a surfboard, but never surfs. A fake surfer, usually more interested in the gals. See [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hodad Urban Dictionary]

'''Marlowe, Philip''' 
97; famous fictional PI created by Raymond Chandler

'''Martin, Dean''' 
233; watching Jonathan Frid in Las Vegas; 245

'''Marx, Gummo''' 
283; fourth Marx brother. More [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gummo_Marx here].

'''masse shots''' 
148; A steep curve or complete reversal of cue ball direction without the necessity of any rail or object ball being struck, due to extreme spin imparted to the cue ball by a steeply elevated cue. Can damage a pool table's felt.

'''Mavericks''' 
99; Northern California big-wave surfing location, in Half Moon Bay (Pynchon's use is anacronistic); first surfed in 1961 but deemed too dangerous by the trio that attempted it; not surfed again until 1975 by Jeff Clark who surfed Mavericks alone until 1990 when word got out. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mavericks_%28location%29 Trivia alert]: Apparently named after a dog who swam out with the first people who tried to surf the wave.

'''May Company''' 
348; where Doc and Crocker Fenway plan to conduct exchange

'''Meatball Flag''' 
155; fictional band, "Soul Gidget"; in auto racing, a "meatball" flag is a black flag with an orange disk in its center, which indicates that a car is being summoned to the pits due to mechanical problems that are interfering with the race, such as an oil, water, or fuel leak. The name is likely a reference to the nickname the Allies gave to the Japanese flag, which is white with a red circle in the middle: "meatball" flag.

'''Mehta, Zubin (b. 1936)''' 
148; Music Director of Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra from 1962-1978

'''Mercy''' 
354; bartender at Linus's Tavern near San Pedro; 359

'''Merman, Ethel''' 
221; Puck's and Einar's impersonation of "No Business Like Show Business"; "You're Not Sick, You're Just in Love" 247; "Everything's Coming Up Roses" from ''Gypsy: A Musical Fable'', 247

<div id="carolmerrill">'''Merrill, Carol'''</div>
47; assistant on TV game show ''Let's Make a Deal''

'''MGM''' 
Metro Goldwyn Mayer - In 1957, the studio reported a loss for the first time in its history. Hollywood as a whole was in trouble by then anyway, thanks to television and the decline of the star contract system on which the studios' power depended. Ten years later, MGM was bought by Kirk Kerkorian, an old-style American buccaneer who had made his fortune flying visitors to Las Vegas. The following year, thousands of props, costumes and other priceless memorabilia went under the auctioneer's hammer. The auction, which lasted for weeks, occurred in April 1970 and Judy Garland's Ruby Slippers from ''The Wizard of Oz'' was one of the lots sold; auction, 125, 344

'''Michelangelo''' 
''Creation of Adam, The'', 124; ''Last Supper'', 137

'''Midnight Special''' 
315; an inexpensive American pale ale, now discontinued.

'''Mighty Mouse''' 
40

'''Mike''' 
183; owner of Teke Greek restaurant

'''Mildred''' 
303; Shasta's dog

'''''Mildred Pierce'' (1945)''' 
Based on the 1941 novel by James M. Cain, ''Mildred Pierce'' is a Warner Bros. feature film starring Joan Crawford in a noir-ish tale about a sacrificing mother and her ungrateful daughter. It was Crawford's first film for Warners after leaving MGM. Veda is Mildred's daughter in the film. In the novel, Mildred attempts to strange Veda; 360

'''Milton''' 
52; bookkeeper at Gotcha!; 94

'''Mira Costa''' 
103; high school attended by Spike and Sortilege

'''''Mod Squad, The''''' 
32; 97; Popular hour long cop drama that aired on ABC from '68-73. Aaron Spelling produced. The three cops were young adults who often went undercover. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mod_Squad Wikipedia Entry]

'''Modern Institute for Cognitive Repatterning and Overhaul ("MICRO")''' 
55; Doc's made-up "private clinic out near Hacienda Heights" that specializes in "repairs of stressed personalities"

'''Moe''' 
80; one of the Three Stooges

'''''Monkees''''' 
232; A pop rock quartet assembled by Robert "Bob" Rafelson and Bert Schneider in Los Angeles in 1966 for the American television series'' The Monkees'', which aired from 1966 to 1968. The members were Americans Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith, Peter Tork, and Englishman Davy Jones. Although the show was canceled in 1968, the band continued releasing records until 1970.

'''Morrison, Jim''' 
77; Morrison (1943-1971) was the lead singer and main lyricist for the rock group The Doors. 'Before you slip into unconsciousness" is the opening line from 'The Crystal Ship' which was on The Doors 1967 self-titled debut album.

'''Moses, Robert (1888-1981)''' 
58; the quote is real and basically means that in urban development the ends justify the means. Moses was "master builder" of mid-20th century New York City, Long Island, and Westchester County, New York. As the shaper of a modern city, he is one of the most polarizing figures in the history of urban planning in the United States. Although never elected to public office, he was arguably the most powerful person in New York state government from the 1930s to the 1950s. He changed shorelines, built roadways in the sky, and transformed neighborhoods forever. His decisions favoring highways over public transit helped create the modern suburbs of Long Island and influenced a generation of engineers, architects, and urban planners who spread his philosophies across the nation.

'''Murphy, George (1902-1992)''' 
American dancer, actor, and politician; he played Roger in the 1938 film ''Little Miss Broadway'' and performed a song-and-dance duet with Shirley Temple, "We Should Be Together."; 360

'''Musso & Frank's''' 
Musso & Frank Grill is a world famous restaurant located at 6667 Hollywood Boulevard in the Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Opened in 1919, it is steeped in Hollywood history, having been the hideout of a host of famous Hollywood celebrities from days gone by. It is named for original owners Joseph Musso and Frank Toulet; Burke Stodger hangout, 310

'''Myrna''' 
127; house wirehair dog at Boards mansion

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76; Chick Planet masseuse; at Boards mansion, 130; at Sybil Brand Institute, becoming lovers with Jade, 135; missing, 154

'''barratry''' 
358; (maritime law) a fraudulent breach of duty by the master of a ship that injures the owner of the ship or its cargo; includes every breach of trust such as stealing or sinking or deserting the ship or embezzling the cargo.

'''Bay of Pigs''' 
The Bay of Pigs Invasion (began April 17, 1961), was an unsuccessful attempt by a U.S.-trained force of Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba with support from U.S. government armed forces to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro. It was widely seen as a serious misstep of President John F. Kennedy; ''Golden Fang'' bringing arms to the anti-Communist guerrillas, 95

'''Beach Boys, The''' 
The Beach Boys are an American rock band. Formed in 1961, the group gained popularity for its close vocal harmonies and lyrics reflecting a Southern California youth culture of cars and surfing. Brian Wilson's growing creative ambitions later transformed them into a more artistically innovative group that earned critical praise and influenced many later musicians. The Beach Boys were the first American hit group to write their own music. Brian Wilson, their guiding light, developed psychological problems beginning around 1967 and gradually retreated from the group; 72; [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L--cqAI3IUI "Wouldn't It Be Nice"]; 78; [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9SmT6cXGFQ "Help Me, Rhonda"] 364; [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC_UILNwWrc "God Only Knows"] 368

'''Beatles, The''' 
Rock group that formed in Liverpool, England in 1960 John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison & Ringo Starr and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed bands in the history of popular music. Their music dominated the music and culture of the 1960s; "Can't Buy Me Love" 3; George Harrison, 166; [http://www.beatleswiki.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Beatles Wiki...]

'''Beaverton, Puck''' 
149; bodyguard for Mickey Wolfmann who betrayed Glen Charlock when Wolfmann was abducted; "One of Mickey Wolfmann's jailhouse praetorians" at home of dealer who provided Coy Harlingen with heroin that killed him, 211; Trillium Fortnight looking for him, 217; swastika tattoo on his shaved head, 218; screwing Trillium "California Department of Corrections style" 223; in Nine of Diamonds, 231; 258-259; 264; "one of Prussia's people" 269; with Doc and Adrian Prussia, 317; "False Inhaling" 317

'''Beer''' 
43; Oof and Elfmont's band; opening for the Boards at Surfadelic Freak-In, 297.

'''Belairs, The''' 
125; Formed in 1960 by guitarists Paul Johnson and Eddie Bertrand, The Belairs were the premier surf instrumental band along California's South Bay. Their release "Mr. Moto" was a 1961 hit. The original band was completed by drummer Richard Delvy, sax player Chaz Stuart and keyboardist Jim Roberts. Eddie Bertrand quit the band and formed Eddie and the Showmen.

'''Belaying Pin''' 
89; "local fish place" in San Pedro. A "belaying pin" is a device used on ships for securing ropes. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belaying_pin here].

A belaying pin also makes a handy cudgel-like weapon. Intriguingly, this use of belaying pins is alluded to in the CineBooks review of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sea_Wolf_%281941_film%29 ''The Sea Wolf''], one of the key John Garfield movies mentioned in ''Inherent Vice'' (and based on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sea-Wolf the Jack London novel]). Here's the relevant part: "...the Ghost is manned by shanghaied sailors who have been pressed into service with belaying pins and Mickey Finns in the old British way,..." Isn't it curious that belaying pins are mentioned in such a context, in a review of ''The Sea Wolf'', and then Pynchon calls his restaurant "The Belaying Pin"? Full text of review: [http://movies.tvguide.com/sea-wolf/review/117034 ''The Sea Wolf'']

'''bent''' 
182; corrupt. A "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_corruption bent cop]" solicits and/or accepts bribes in exchange for ignoring illegal activities.

'''Bermuda Triangle''' 
90; a region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean in which a number of aircraft and surface vessels are alleged to have disappeared in mysterious circumstances which fall beyond the boundaries of human error, piracy, equipment failure, or natural disasters; and the ''Golden Fang'', 92

'''''Beverly Hillbillies, The'' (1962-1971)''' 
American sitcom that was one of the most successful comedies in the history of American television. It ranked among the top 12 most watched series on television for seven of its nine seasons, twice ranking as the #1 series of the year with a number of episodes that remain among the most-watched television episodes of all time. The series was about a hillbilly family transplanted to Beverly Hills, California after finding oil on their land; 200

'''''Big Bounce, The'' (1969)''' 
A film starring Ryan O'Neal and directed by Alex March; score, 318

'''''Big Valley, The''''' 
43; American television Western which ran on ABC from 1965 to 1969, which starred Barbara Stanwyck, as the widowed matriarch of the wealthy, influential Barkley family living in 19th century Stockton in California's central valley. Beer's cover of the show's theme has added lyrics absent from the original instrumental. Similarly, Pynchon adds lyrics to the surf sound Hawaii 5-0 theme on Page 99 of Vineland. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg3HcxYcbog YouTube]

'''Bishop, Joey''' 
American entertainer who was perhaps best known for being a member of the "Rat Pack" with Frank Sinatra, Peter Lawford, Sammy Davis Jr., and Dean Martin. Bishop appeared on television as early as 1948 and was a frequent guest on television talk shows, game shows, and comedy shows; ashtray he threw up into, in Las Vegas, 220

'''Bjornsen, Lieutenant Christian F. "Bigfoot"''' 
8; LAPD cop; addiction to chocolate-covered bananas, 139; "One of America's true badasses" 202; Vincent Indelicato, his partner of many years in the LAPD, 284; "LAPD's own Charlie Manson" 332; See [http://www.lemurianconnection.com/en/about-mount-shasta.htm Mount Shasta and the Lemurian Connection]

'''Bjornsen, Chastity''' 
260; Bigfoot's wife

'''Black Dahlia''' 
Elizabeth Short (1924-1947) was an American woman who was the victim of a gruesome and much-publicized murder. Nicknamed the Black Dahlia, Short was found mutilated, with her body severed, on January 15, 1947 in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, California. The murder, which remains unsolved; "good old-time L.A. murder mysteries" 209. And there's a little girl named Dahlia on pg. 28 in ''Against the Day''.

'''Black Guerilla Family''' 
Prison gang founded in 1966 by George Jackson while he was in the San Quentin State Prison in Marin County, California, north of San Francisco. The gang is ideologically-based, established as an African-American Marxist revolutionary organization. It was founded with the stated goals of eradicating racism, maintaining dignity in prison and overthrowing the United States government. Historically, it was associated with a number of leftist groups, including the Black Liberation Army, Symbionese Liberation Army and Weather Underground; "George Jackson's outfit" Tariq was in in prison, 16

'''''Black Narcissus''''' 
115; ''Black Narcissus'' (1947) is a film by the British director-writer team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, based on the novel of the same name by Rumer Godden. It is a psychological drama about the emotional tensions within a convent of nuns in an isolated Himalayan valley, and stars Deborah Kerr, Sabu, David Farrar and Flora Robson, and features Esmond Knight, Jean Simmons and Kathleen Byron.

'''Black Nationalist''' 
Advocates a racial definition (or redefinition) of black national identity, as opposed to multiculturalism. There are different black nationalist philosophies but the principles of all black nationalist ideologies are 1) Black pride, and 2) black economic, political, social and/or cultural independence from white society. Martin Delany is considered to be the grandfather of black nationalism; 221

'''Black Panthers, The''' 
Founded in Oakland, California, in 1966 by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton, the Black Panther Party (originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was an African-American organization established to promote Black Power, and by extension self-defense for blacks. It was active in the United States from the mid-1960s into the 1970s. The Black Panther Party achieved national and international fame through their deep involvement in the Black Power movement and in American politics of the 1960s and 70s; 75

'''Blatnoyd, Dr. Rudy, DDS''' 
168; at Golden Fang Corporate HQ; trampoline death, 203; "puncture wounds on his throat" 213; autopsy, 259; 293; 345

'''Blondie-san''' 
82; gangster-type at Club Asiatique in San Pedro, accompanied by a "yakuza torpedo named Iwao"

'''Blue Cheer''' 
San Francisco proto-heavy-metal band that initially performed and recorded in the late 1960s and early 1970s, beginning with their 1968 album ''Vincebus Eruptum'' and the hit "Summertime Blues" (the Eddie Cochran tune). They were a power trio like Cream and Jimi Hendrix with electric guitar, bass and drums. They were known for the gigantic stack of Marshall amplifiers which dwarfed the band standing in front of them; 95

'''Boards, The''' 
36; surf band with Coy Harlingen; Topanga mansion, 124; tattoo sandals, 126; zombies, 132; trash Denis's place, 196; Symphonic Poem for Surf Band and Orchestra, 223; plotting against Denis, 296; house dezombified by an exorcist, 299

'''Bodhi and Zinnia''' 
124; "house groupies" at The Boards' mansion in Topanga Canyon

'''Bong Users' Revolutionary Brigade (BURBs)''' 
302; group Coy Harlingen is infiltrating at UCLA

'''Bonzo Dog Band''' 
56, 289; The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band (also known as The Bonzo Dog Band, The Bonzo Dog Dada Band and, colloquially, as "The Bonzos") are a band created by a group of British art-school denizens of the 1960s. Combining elements of music hall, trad jazz, psychedelic rock, and avant-garde art, the Bonzos came to the attention of a broader British public through a children's television programme, ''Do Not Adjust Your Set''; "Bang Bang" - Cher's second single, written by husband Sonny Bono and released in 1966. It was covered by the Bonzos in 1969.

'''Boone, Pat (b. 1934)''' 
130; whitebread singer and actor, most (in)famous for his covers of Black artists' music, rendered in a bland style; 240;

'''Borderline, Hugo, Special Agent''' 
72; FBI agent, partner of Special Agent Flatweed; with Penny Kimball; with SA Flatweed in Las Vegas looking for Puck and Einar, 220, 222; at Kismet Lounge, 243-244

'''Boris''' 
See [[S#spivey|Spivey, Boris]]

'''Bostic, Earl (1913-1965)''' 
American jazz and rhythm and blues alto saxophonist, a pioneer of the post-war American Rhythm and Blues style. He had a number of popular hits such as "Flamingo", "Harlem Nocturne", "Temptation", "Sleep" and "Where or When", which showed off his characteristic growl on the horn. He was a major influence on John Coltrane; 37

'''''Brady Bunch''''' 
American television situation comedy starring Robert Reed and Florence Henderson, and which revolves around a very large blended family. The show originally aired from September 26, 1969, to March 8, 1974, on the American ABC network and was subsequently syndicated around the world; Burke Stodger in episode of, 310

'''Branch, Farley''' 
104; Vietnam veteran and friend of Spike's; darkroom, 137; footage of Chick Planet Massage raid, 141-142; 201

'''Breeze, Elmina''' 
8; Doc's mother and Reet's kid sister; 112; 352; getting high, 353

'''"The Bright Elusive Butterfly of Love"''' 
330; "Elusive Butterfly" is a popular song by Bob Lind released in 1966. It was also recorded and released in 1966 in the UK by Val Doonican. The chorus:

:Don't be concerned, it will not harm you''' 
:It's only me pursuing somethin' I'm not sure of''' 
:Across my dreams with nets of wonder''' 
:I chase the bright elusive butterfly of love

'''Bugliosi, Vincent (b. 1934)''' 
An American attorney and author, best known for prosecuting Charles Manson and other defendants accused of the Tate-LaBianca murders and later writing a book about it called ''Helter Skelter'' (1974) which became the biggest selling true crime book in publishing history selling over 7 million copies; 280

'''''Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour, The''''' 
ABC began re-running ''The Bugs Bunny Show'' on Saturday mornings in August 1962. The series was rerun in color beginning in 1965, and remained on ABC until September 1968. At this point, the series switched to CBS, where it was combined with ''The Road Runner Show'' (which had aired on CBS since 1966) to create ''The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour''; 199

'''Bugs Bunny''' 
Fictional character who appears in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated films produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions, which became Warner Bros. Cartoons in 1945; 326

'''Bunco Squad''' 
138; handles "resurrections" at the LAPD

'''Byrds, the''' 
The Byrds were an American rock and roll band. Formed in Los Angeles, California in 1964, The Byrds underwent several personnel changes, with frontman Roger McGuinn remaining the sole consistent member until the group's disbandment in 1973. They achieved popularity covering Bob Dylan songs, beginning with "Mr. Tambourine Man" (1965), but had continued success with their own compositions; "Eight Miles High" 135;
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102; Sortilege's guru; 306

'''fantan''' 
81; similar to roulette, fantan (or Fan-Tan) was once a favorite pastime of the Chinese in America. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan-Tan Wikipedia entry]

'''Fapardokly''' 
Merrell Wayne Fankhauser (b. 1943) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist who was most active in the 1960s and 1970s with bands including the Impacts, Exiles, Fapardokly, HMS Bounty, Fankhauser-Cassidy Band, and MU. "Super Market" appeared on Fapardokly's 1966 album ''Fapardokly''; "triple-tongue highway classic" 368; [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiIRj62VbB0 Check out some Fapardokly on YouTube...]

'''Fazzo, Fabian''' 
238; gent who looks like "a banker in an old movie" at the Kismet in Las Vegas; Chief Operating Officer, Kiscorp, 362

'''feng shui''' 
Ancient Chinese system of aesthetics believed to use the laws of both Heaven (astronomy) and Earth (geography) to help one improve life by receiving positive qi. Traditional feng shui practice always requires an extremely accurate Chinese compass, or luo pan, in order to determine the directions in finding any auspicious sector in a desired location; mirror at Golden Fang HQ, 168

'''Fenway, Crocker''' 
171; Japonica's wealthy father; 314; "Prince of Palos Verdes" 341

<div id="japonica">'''Fenway, Japonica'''</div>
170; at Golden Fang HQ for "Smile Maintenance"; a Cybernet Organism / Kozmic Traveler visiting other worlds v. Real Japonica, 173; her car, Wolfgang, 175; [[Plants of Inherent Vice| See: Plants of Inherent Vice]]

'''FFO''' 
154; music club on Sunset, where Spotted Dick is playing; Funds From Operations (FFO): a term used in real estate investment trusts (REITs) to define the cash flow from their operations.

'''Fields, W. C. (1880-1946)''' 
9; American comedian, actor and juggler. Fields created one of the great American comic personas of the first half of the 20th century: a misanthropic and hard-drinking egotist who remained a sympathetic character despite his snarling contempt for dogs, children, and women; Elmina's father's routine, 112

'''Fiona''' 
129; Smedley's Farfisa organ

'''Flaco the Bad''' 
12; acquaintance of Doc's; 100; 256

'''flatland''' 
The Los Angeles flatland is the area of Los Angeles and Orange counties that is inland, at the foot of the San Gabriel, Santa Monica and Santa Ana mountains and the Palos Verdes peninsula, as contrasted with the "hipper" beach communities; 4

'''Flatweed, Special Agent''' 
72; FBI agent, partner of Special Agent Hugo Borderline; with Penny Kimball; with SA Borderline, in Las Vegas, 220, 222; at Kismet Lounge, 243-244

'''Fleming, Art (1924-1995)''' 
American television host, most notably the original host of the TV game show ''Jeopardy''!; "Art Fleming look on his face" 48

'''''Flintstones, The''''' 
An animated American television sitcom that ran from 1960 to 1966 on ABC, produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions; "page right out of history" 235; 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. 

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

'''"Fly Me to the Moon"''' 
75; Popular standard song written by Bart Howard in 1954. It was titled originally "In Other Words", and was introduced by Felicia Sanders in cabarets. The song became known popularly as "Fly Me to the Moon" from its first line, and after a few years the publishers changed the title to that officially. The song has also been recorded by Nat King Cole and, probably most recognizably, by Frank Sinatra who recorded the song on his 1964 album ''It Might as Well Be Swing'' accompanied by Count Basie. The arrangement by Quincy Jones has become the rendition by which most people recognise the song. Jones changed the time signature, which was originally 3/4 waltz-time, to 4/4 and gave it a 'swing' feel. Sinatra's recording was a hit and was played by the astronauts of Apollo 10, on their lunar-orbital mission and again on the moon itself by the astronaut Buzz Aldrin during Apollo 11. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly_me_to_the_moon Wikipedia entry]

'''Folsom''' 
271; Folsom State Prison is located east of Sacramento in Northern California, probably best known because of the Johnny Cash song "Folsom Prison Blues."

'''Fonda, Henry (1905-1982)''' 
American film and stage actor, best known for his roles as plain-speaking idealists. Fonda's subtle, naturalistic acting style preceded by many years the popularization of method acting; ''Fort Apache'' (1948), 171

'''Fortnight, Trillium''' 
216; "dishevelled girl in a tiny skirt" referred to Doc by Boris Spivey and Dawnette, teaches music theory at UCLA; marries Puck Beaverton, 246; admitted to Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas with concussion, cuts and bruises, released in the custody of her parents several days later, 366. A trillium is a rather fragile type of wildflower; [[Plants of Inherent Vice| See: Plants of Inherent Vice]]

'''Freak Brothers''' 
[[image:freak-brothers.jpg|right|200px|thumb|caption|Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers]]
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."; 33; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabulous_Furry_Freak_Brothers Wikipedia entry]

'''''Freaks''''' 
1932 American horror film about sideshow performers, directed and produced by Tod Browning and released by MGM, with a cast mostly composed of actual carnival performers. The film was based on Tod Robbins' short story "Spurs". Director Browning took the exceptional step of casting real people with deformities as the eponymous sideshow "freaks," rather than using costumes and makeup; "Code of the Freaks": "If you offend one of them, you have offended them all" 196

'''Frid, Jonathan''' 
233; Barnabas ... the vampire guy on ''Dark Shadows'', in Las Vegas, singing "Haunted Heart"

'''Fritz''' 
See Drybeam, Fritz

'''Fromme, Lynette "Squeaky" (b. 1948)''' 
283; American criminal, former member of the Manson Family, convicted of attempting to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford in 1975. She is currently serving a life sentence in prison; "righteous-ass bitch" 293

'''Froot Loops''' 
Brand of breakfast cereal produced by Kelloggs. The cereal pieces are torus-shaped (hence "loops") and come in a variety of bright colors and a blend of artificial fruit flavors. Kellogg's introduced Froot Loops in 1963. Originally, there were red, orange, and yellow loops, but green, then purple, and finally blue were added by the 1990s; 308

''''fro pick''' 
3; An "Afro" pick, aka a comb for the Afro hairstyle; this doesn't mean Doc has an Afro, only that he borrowed one "for protection."

'''Frothingham, Rhus''' 
275; LA deputy DA with whom Penny Kimball shares a cubicle at the Hall of Justice; 282; [[Plants of Inherent Vice| See: Plants of Inherent Vice]]

'''Fuller, Buckminster ("Bucky") (1895-1983)''' 
62; an American architect, author, designer, futurist, inventor, and visionary. Fuller wrote more than thirty books, coining and popularizing terms such as "Spaceship Earth", ephemeralization, and synergetics. He also worked in the development of numerous inventions, chiefly in the fields of design and architecture, the best known of which is the geodesic dome. Carbon molecules known as fullerenes or buckyballs were named for their resemblance to geodesic spheres.251

'''Full Moon in Pisces''' 
241-242; song Lark is singing at the Kismet

'''Furies, the''' 
156; opening for Spotted Dick at FFO - 3 basses and no lead guitar

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'''Bambi''' 
76; Chick Planet masseuse; at Boards mansion, 130; at Sybil Brand Institute, becoming lovers with Jade, 135; missing, 154

'''barratry''' 
358; (maritime law) a fraudulent breach of duty by the master of a ship that injures the owner of the ship or its cargo; includes every breach of trust such as stealing or sinking or deserting the ship or embezzling the cargo.

'''Bay of Pigs''' 
The Bay of Pigs Invasion (began April 17, 1961), was an unsuccessful attempt by a U.S.-trained force of Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba with support from U.S. government armed forces to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro. It was widely seen as a serious misstep of President John F. Kennedy; ''Golden Fang'' bringing arms to the anti-Communist guerrillas, 95

'''Beach Boys, The''' 
The Beach Boys are an American rock band. Formed in 1961, the group gained popularity for its close vocal harmonies and lyrics reflecting a Southern California youth culture of cars and surfing. Brian Wilson's growing creative ambitions later transformed them into a more artistically innovative group that earned critical praise and influenced many later musicians. The Beach Boys were the first American hit group to write their own music. Brian Wilson, their guiding light, developed psychological problems beginning around 1967 and gradually retreated from the group; 72; [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L--cqAI3IUI "Wouldn't It Be Nice"]; 78; [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9SmT6cXGFQ "Help Me, Rhonda"] 364; [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC_UILNwWrc "God Only Knows"] 368

'''Beatles, The''' 
Rock group that formed in Liverpool, England in 1960 John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison & Ringo Starr and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed bands in the history of popular music. Their music dominated the music and culture of the 1960s; "Can't Buy Me Love" 3; George Harrison, 166; [http://www.beatleswiki.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Beatles Wiki...]

'''Beaverton, Puck''' 
149; bodyguard for Mickey Wolfmann who betrayed Glen Charlock when Wolfmann was abducted; "One of Mickey Wolfmann's jailhouse praetorians" at home of dealer who provided Coy Harlingen with heroin that killed him, 211; Trillium Fortnight looking for him, 217; swastika tattoo on his shaved head, 218; screwing Trillium "California Department of Corrections style" 223; in Nine of Diamonds, 231; 258-259; 264; "one of Prussia's people" 269; with Doc and Adrian Prussia, 317; "False Inhaling" 317

'''Beer''' 
43; Oof and Elfmont's band; opening for the Boards at Surfadelic Freak-In, 297.

'''Belairs, The''' 
125; Formed in 1960 by guitarists Paul Johnson and Eddie Bertrand, The Belairs were the premier surf instrumental band along California's South Bay. Their release "Mr. Moto" was a 1961 hit. The original band was completed by drummer Richard Delvy, sax player Chaz Stuart and keyboardist Jim Roberts. Eddie Bertrand quit the band and formed Eddie and the Showmen.

'''Belaying Pin''' 
89; "local fish place" in San Pedro. A "belaying pin" is a device used on ships for securing ropes. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belaying_pin here].

A belaying pin also makes a handy cudgel-like weapon. Intriguingly, this use of belaying pins is alluded to in the CineBooks review of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sea_Wolf_%281941_film%29 ''The Sea Wolf''], one of the key John Garfield movies mentioned in ''Inherent Vice'' (and based on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sea-Wolf the Jack London novel]). Here's the relevant part: "...the Ghost is manned by shanghaied sailors who have been pressed into service with belaying pins and Mickey Finns in the old British way,..." Isn't it curious that belaying pins are mentioned in such a context, in a review of ''The Sea Wolf'', and then Pynchon calls his restaurant "The Belaying Pin"? Full text of review: [http://movies.tvguide.com/sea-wolf/review/117034 ''The Sea Wolf'']

'''bent''' 
182; corrupt. A "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_corruption bent cop]" solicits and/or accepts bribes in exchange for ignoring illegal activities.

'''Bermuda Triangle''' 
90; a region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean in which a number of aircraft and surface vessels are alleged to have disappeared in mysterious circumstances which fall beyond the boundaries of human error, piracy, equipment failure, or natural disasters; and the ''Golden Fang'', 92

'''''Beverly Hillbillies, The'' (1962-1971)''' 
American sitcom that was one of the most successful comedies in the history of American television. It ranked among the top 12 most watched series on television for seven of its nine seasons, twice ranking as the #1 series of the year with a number of episodes that remain among the most-watched television episodes of all time. The series was about a hillbilly family transplanted to Beverly Hills, California after finding oil on their land; 200

'''''Big Bounce, The'' (1969)''' 
A film starring Ryan O'Neal and directed by Alex March; score, 318

'''''Big Valley, The''''' 
43; American television Western which ran on ABC from 1965 to 1969, which starred Barbara Stanwyck, as the widowed matriarch of the wealthy, influential Barkley family living in 19th century Stockton in California's central valley. Beer's cover of the show's theme has added lyrics absent from the original instrumental. Similarly, Pynchon adds lyrics to the surf sound Hawaii 5-0 theme on Page 99 of Vineland. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg3HcxYcbog YouTube]

'''Bishop, Joey''' 
American entertainer who was perhaps best known for being a member of the "Rat Pack" with Frank Sinatra, Peter Lawford, Sammy Davis Jr., and Dean Martin. Bishop appeared on television as early as 1948 and was a frequent guest on television talk shows, game shows, and comedy shows; ashtray he threw up into, in Las Vegas, 220

'''Bjornsen, Lieutenant Christian F. "Bigfoot"''' 
8; LAPD cop; addiction to chocolate-covered bananas, 139; "One of America's true badasses" 202; Vincent Indelicato, his partner of many years in the LAPD, 284; "LAPD's own Charlie Manson" 332; See [http://www.lemurianconnection.com/en/about-mount-shasta.htm Mount Shasta and the Lemurian Connection]

'''Bjornsen, Chastity''' 
260; Bigfoot's wife

'''Black Dahlia''' 
Elizabeth Short (1924-1947) was an American woman who was the victim of a gruesome and much-publicized murder. Nicknamed the Black Dahlia, Short was found mutilated, with her body severed, on January 15, 1947 in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, California. The murder, which remains unsolved; "good old-time L.A. murder mysteries" 209. And there's a little girl named Dahlia on pg. 28 in ''Against the Day''.

'''Black Guerilla Family''' 
Prison gang founded in 1966 by George Jackson while he was in the San Quentin State Prison in Marin County, California, north of San Francisco. The gang is ideologically-based, established as an African-American Marxist revolutionary organization. It was founded with the stated goals of eradicating racism, maintaining dignity in prison and overthrowing the United States government. Historically, it was associated with a number of leftist groups, including the Black Liberation Army, Symbionese Liberation Army and Weather Underground; "George Jackson's outfit" Tariq was in in prison, 16

'''''Black Narcissus''''' 
115; ''Black Narcissus'' (1947) is a film by the British director-writer team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, based on the novel of the same name by Rumer Godden. It is a psychological drama about the emotional tensions within a convent of nuns in an isolated Himalayan valley, and stars Deborah Kerr, Sabu, David Farrar and Flora Robson, and features Esmond Knight, Jean Simmons and Kathleen Byron.

'''Black Nationalist''' 
Advocates a racial definition (or redefinition) of black national identity, as opposed to multiculturalism. There are different black nationalist philosophies but the principles of all black nationalist ideologies are 1) Black pride, and 2) black economic, political, social and/or cultural independence from white society. Martin Delany is considered to be the grandfather of black nationalism; 221

'''Black Panthers, The''' 
Founded in Oakland, California, in 1966 by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton, the Black Panther Party (originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was an African-American organization established to promote Black Power, and by extension self-defense for blacks. It was active in the United States from the mid-1960s into the 1970s. The Black Panther Party achieved national and international fame through their deep involvement in the Black Power movement and in American politics of the 1960s and 70s; 75

'''Blatnoyd, Dr. Rudy, DDS''' 
168; at Golden Fang Corporate HQ; trampoline death, 203; "puncture wounds on his throat" 213; autopsy, 259; 293; 345

'''Blondie-san''' 
82; gangster-type at Club Asiatique in San Pedro, accompanied by a "yakuza torpedo named Iwao"

'''Blue Cheer''' 
San Francisco proto-heavy-metal band that initially performed and recorded in the late 1960s and early 1970s, beginning with their 1968 album ''Vincebus Eruptum'' and the hit "Summertime Blues" (the Eddie Cochran tune). They were a power trio like Cream and Jimi Hendrix with electric guitar, bass and drums. They were known for the gigantic stack of Marshall amplifiers which dwarfed the band standing in front of them; 95

'''Boards, The''' 
36; surf band with Coy Harlingen; Topanga mansion, 124; tattoo sandals, 126; zombies, 132; trash Denis's place, 196; Symphonic Poem for Surf Band and Orchestra, 223; plotting against Denis, 296; house dezombified by an exorcist, 299

'''Bodhi and Zinnia''' 
124; "house groupies" at The Boards' mansion in Topanga Canyon

'''Bong Users' Revolutionary Brigade (BURBs)''' 
302; group Coy Harlingen is infiltrating at UCLA

'''Bonzo Dog Band''' 
56, 289; The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band (also known as The Bonzo Dog Band, The Bonzo Dog Dada Band and, colloquially, as "The Bonzos") are a band created by a group of British art-school denizens of the 1960s. Combining elements of music hall, trad jazz, psychedelic rock, and avant-garde art, the Bonzos came to the attention of a broader British public through a children's television programme, ''Do Not Adjust Your Set''; "Bang Bang" - Cher's second single, written by husband Sonny Bono and released in 1966. It was covered by the Bonzos in 1969.

'''Boone, Pat (b. 1934)''' 
130; whitebread singer and actor, most (in)famous for his covers of Black artists' music, rendered in a bland style; 240;

'''Borderline, Hugo, Special Agent''' 
FBI agent, partner of Special Agent Flatweed; 72, with Penny Kimball; with SA Flatweed in Las Vegas looking for Puck and Einar, 220, 222

'''Boris''' 
See [[S#spivey|Spivey, Boris]]

'''Bostic, Earl (1913-1965)''' 
American jazz and rhythm and blues alto saxophonist, a pioneer of the post-war American Rhythm and Blues style. He had a number of popular hits such as "Flamingo", "Harlem Nocturne", "Temptation", "Sleep" and "Where or When", which showed off his characteristic growl on the horn. He was a major influence on John Coltrane; 37

'''''Brady Bunch''''' 
American television situation comedy starring Robert Reed and Florence Henderson, and which revolves around a very large blended family. The show originally aired from September 26, 1969, to March 8, 1974, on the American ABC network and was subsequently syndicated around the world; Burke Stodger in episode of, 310

'''Branch, Farley''' 
104; Vietnam veteran and friend of Spike's; darkroom, 137; footage of Chick Planet Massage raid, 141-142; 201

'''Breeze, Elmina''' 
8; Doc's mother and Reet's kid sister; 112; 352; getting high, 353

'''"The Bright Elusive Butterfly of Love"''' 
330; "Elusive Butterfly" is a popular song by Bob Lind released in 1966. It was also recorded and released in 1966 in the UK by Val Doonican. The chorus:

:Don't be concerned, it will not harm you''' 
:It's only me pursuing somethin' I'm not sure of''' 
:Across my dreams with nets of wonder''' 
:I chase the bright elusive butterfly of love

'''Bugliosi, Vincent (b. 1934)''' 
An American attorney and author, best known for prosecuting Charles Manson and other defendants accused of the Tate-LaBianca murders and later writing a book about it called ''Helter Skelter'' (1974) which became the biggest selling true crime book in publishing history selling over 7 million copies; 280

'''''Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour, The''''' 
ABC began re-running ''The Bugs Bunny Show'' on Saturday mornings in August 1962. The series was rerun in color beginning in 1965, and remained on ABC until September 1968. At this point, the series switched to CBS, where it was combined with ''The Road Runner Show'' (which had aired on CBS since 1966) to create ''The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour''; 199

'''Bugs Bunny''' 
Fictional character who appears in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated films produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions, which became Warner Bros. Cartoons in 1945; 326

'''Bunco Squad''' 
138; handles "resurrections" at the LAPD

'''Byrds, the''' 
The Byrds were an American rock and roll band. Formed in Los Angeles, California in 1964, The Byrds underwent several personnel changes, with frontman Roger McGuinn remaining the sole consistent member until the group's disbandment in 1973. They achieved popularity covering Bob Dylan songs, beginning with "Mr. Tambourine Man" (1965), but had continued success with their own compositions; "Eight Miles High" 135;
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102; Sortilege's guru; 306

'''fantan''' 
81; similar to roulette, fantan (or Fan-Tan) was once a favorite pastime of the Chinese in America. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan-Tan Wikipedia entry]

'''Fapardokly''' 
Merrell Wayne Fankhauser (b. 1943) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist who was most active in the 1960s and 1970s with bands including the Impacts, Exiles, Fapardokly, HMS Bounty, Fankhauser-Cassidy Band, and MU. "Super Market" appeared on Fapardokly's 1966 album ''Fapardokly''; "triple-tongue highway classic" 368; [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiIRj62VbB0 Check out some Fapardokly on YouTube...]

'''Fazzo, Fabian''' 
238; gent who looks like "a banker in an old movie" at the Kismet in Las Vegas; Chief Operating Officer, Kiscorp, 362

'''feng shui''' 
Ancient Chinese system of aesthetics believed to use the laws of both Heaven (astronomy) and Earth (geography) to help one improve life by receiving positive qi. Traditional feng shui practice always requires an extremely accurate Chinese compass, or luo pan, in order to determine the directions in finding any auspicious sector in a desired location; mirror at Golden Fang HQ, 168

'''Fenway, Crocker''' 
171; Japonica's wealthy father; 314; "Prince of Palos Verdes" 341

<div id="japonica">'''Fenway, Japonica'''</div>
170; at Golden Fang HQ for "Smile Maintenance"; a Cybernet Organism / Kozmic Traveler visiting other worlds v. Real Japonica, 173; her car, Wolfgang, 175; [[Plants of Inherent Vice| See: Plants of Inherent Vice]]

'''FFO''' 
154; music club on Sunset, where Spotted Dick is playing; Funds From Operations (FFO): a term used in real estate investment trusts (REITs) to define the cash flow from their operations.

'''Fields, W. C. (1880-1946)''' 
9; American comedian, actor and juggler. Fields created one of the great American comic personas of the first half of the 20th century: a misanthropic and hard-drinking egotist who remained a sympathetic character despite his snarling contempt for dogs, children, and women; Elmina's father's routine, 112

'''Fiona''' 
129; Smedley's Farfisa organ

'''Flaco the Bad''' 
12; acquaintance of Doc's; 100; 256

'''flatland''' 
The Los Angeles flatland is the area of Los Angeles and Orange counties that is inland, at the foot of the San Gabriel, Santa Monica and Santa Ana mountains and the Palos Verdes peninsula, as contrasted with the "hipper" beach communities; 4

'''Flatweed, Special Agent''' 
FBI agent, partner of Special Agent Hugo Borderline; 72, with Penny Kimball; with SA Borderline, in Las Vegas, 220-222

'''Fleming, Art (1924-1995)''' 
American television host, most notably the original host of the TV game show ''Jeopardy''!; "Art Fleming look on his face" 48

'''''Flintstones, The''''' 
An animated American television sitcom that ran from 1960 to 1966 on ABC, produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions; "page right out of history" 235; 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. 

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

'''"Fly Me to the Moon"''' 
75; Popular standard song written by Bart Howard in 1954. It was titled originally "In Other Words", and was introduced by Felicia Sanders in cabarets. The song became known popularly as "Fly Me to the Moon" from its first line, and after a few years the publishers changed the title to that officially. The song has also been recorded by Nat King Cole and, probably most recognizably, by Frank Sinatra who recorded the song on his 1964 album ''It Might as Well Be Swing'' accompanied by Count Basie. The arrangement by Quincy Jones has become the rendition by which most people recognise the song. Jones changed the time signature, which was originally 3/4 waltz-time, to 4/4 and gave it a 'swing' feel. Sinatra's recording was a hit and was played by the astronauts of Apollo 10, on their lunar-orbital mission and again on the moon itself by the astronaut Buzz Aldrin during Apollo 11. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly_me_to_the_moon Wikipedia entry]

'''Folsom''' 
271; Folsom State Prison is located east of Sacramento in Northern California, probably best known because of the Johnny Cash song "Folsom Prison Blues."

'''Fonda, Henry (1905-1982)''' 
American film and stage actor, best known for his roles as plain-speaking idealists. Fonda's subtle, naturalistic acting style preceded by many years the popularization of method acting; ''Fort Apache'' (1948), 171

'''Fortnight, Trillium''' 
216; "dishevelled girl in a tiny skirt" referred to Doc by Boris Spivey and Dawnette, teaches music theory at UCLA; marries Puck Beaverton, 246; admitted to Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas with concussion, cuts and bruises, released in the custody of her parents several days later, 366. A trillium is a rather fragile type of wildflower; [[Plants of Inherent Vice| See: Plants of Inherent Vice]]

'''Freak Brothers''' 
[[image:freak-brothers.jpg|right|200px|thumb|caption|Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers]]
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."; 33; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabulous_Furry_Freak_Brothers Wikipedia entry]

'''''Freaks''''' 
1932 American horror film about sideshow performers, directed and produced by Tod Browning and released by MGM, with a cast mostly composed of actual carnival performers. The film was based on Tod Robbins' short story "Spurs". Director Browning took the exceptional step of casting real people with deformities as the eponymous sideshow "freaks," rather than using costumes and makeup; "Code of the Freaks": "If you offend one of them, you have offended them all" 196

'''Frid, Jonathan''' 
233; Barnabas ... the vampire guy on ''Dark Shadows'', in Las Vegas, singing "Haunted Heart"

'''Fritz''' 
See Drybeam, Fritz

'''Fromme, Lynette "Squeaky" (b. 1948)''' 
American criminal, former member of the Manson Family, convicted of attempting to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford in 1975. She is currently serving a life sentence in prison; 283; "righteous-ass bitch" 293

'''Froot Loops''' 
Brand of breakfast cereal produced by Kelloggs. The cereal pieces are torus-shaped (hence "loops") and come in a variety of bright colors and a blend of artificial fruit flavors. Kellogg's introduced Froot Loops in 1963. Originally, there were red, orange, and yellow loops, but green, then purple, and finally blue were added by the 1990s; 308

''''fro pick''' 
3; An "Afro" pick, aka a comb for the Afro hairstyle; this doesn't mean Doc has an Afro, only that he borrowed one "for protection."

'''Frothingham, Rhus''' 
275; LA deputy DA with whom Penny Kimball shares a cubicle at the Hall of Justice; 282; [[Plants of Inherent Vice| See: Plants of Inherent Vice]]

'''Fuller, Buckminster ("Bucky") (1895-1983)''' 
62; an American architect, author, designer, futurist, inventor, and visionary. Fuller wrote more than thirty books, coining and popularizing terms such as "Spaceship Earth", ephemeralization, and synergetics. He also worked in the development of numerous inventions, chiefly in the fields of design and architecture, the best known of which is the geodesic dome. Carbon molecules known as fullerenes or buckyballs were named for their resemblance to geodesic spheres.251

'''Full Moon in Pisces''' 
241-242; song Lark is singing at the Kismet

'''Furies, the''' 
156; opening for Spotted Dick at FFO - 3 basses and no lead guitar

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

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

More info at [[Inherent Vice cover analysis]]

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

==Epigraph==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[[image:afro-pick.jpg|right|120px|thumb|caption|'fro pick]]''''fro pick in his baggies for protection''' 
An "Afro" pick, aka a comb for the Afro hairstyle; this doesn't necessarily mean Doc has an Afro, only that he borrowed one "for protection" as they generally had fairly sharp metal tines.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 11==
'''Sad but true, as Dion always sez.''' 
"Runaround Sue" ("Here's my story, it's sad but true...") was a 1961 hit for Dion DiMucci (b. 1939). Dion only sez it once, but then again he "said" it everytime the song was played. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c49klxPex-k Have a listen on YouTube...] 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Tomorrow is another day''' 
For those who don't mind spoilers, see [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_16#Page_281 later annotation].

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 15==
'''Olivetti Lettera 22''' 
A portable typewriter. See it [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivetti_Lettera_22 here]. Various sources, including Jules Siegel, note that Pynchon used an Olivetti Portable Typewriter.

==Page 16==
'''Black Guerrilla Family . . . George Jackson's outfit''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Guerrilla_Family The Black Guerrilla Family] was a prison gang founded in the mid-1960's by George Jackson in San Quentin prison.

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

==Page 17==
'''Watts . . . the riots''' 
In 1965, there was a widespread and brutal riot in the streets of Watts, CA. It lasted almost a week and resulted in several deaths and hundreds of injuries. Read more [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_riots here]. Pynchon wrote on the subject in his 1966 essay for the New York Times [http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/uncollected/watts.html A Journey Into The Mind of Watts]

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

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

More info at [[Inherent Vice cover analysis]]

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

==Epigraph==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[[image:afro-pick.jpg|right|120px|thumb|caption|'fro pick]]''''fro pick in his baggies for protection''' 
An "Afro" pick, aka a comb for the Afro hairstyle; this doesn't necessarily mean Doc has an Afro, only that he borrowed one "for protection" as they generally had fairly sharp metal tines.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 11==
'''Sad but true, as Dion always sez.''' 
"Runaround Sue" ("Here's my story, it's sad but true...") was a 1961 hit for Dion DiMucci (b. 1939). Dion only sez it once, but then again he "said" it everytime the song was played. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c49klxPex-k Have a listen on YouTube...] 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Tomorrow is another day''' 
For those who don't mind spoilers, see [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_16#Page_281 later annotation].

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 15==
'''Olivetti Lettera 22''' 
A portable typewriter. See it [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivetti_Lettera_22 here]. Various sources, including Jules Siegel, note that Pynchon used an Olivetti Portable Typewriter.

==Page 16==
'''Black Guerrilla Family . . . George Jackson's outfit''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Guerrilla_Family The Black Guerrilla Family] was a prison gang founded in the mid-1960's by George Jackson in San Quentin prison.

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

==Page 17==
'''Watts . . . the riots''' 
In 1965, there was a widespread and brutal riot in the streets of Watts, CA. It lasted almost a week and resulted in several deaths and hundreds of injuries. Read more [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_riots here]. Pynchon wrote on the subject in his 1966 essay for the New York Times [http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/uncollected/watts.html A Journey Into The Mind of Watts]

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==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.

'''Wrong shoes.''' 
As Doc himself pointed out on page 21, when Jade asked if he was a cop.

==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==

'''Rosa Eskenazi''' 
Eskenazi (1890-1980) was a famous Greek singer of Rebetiko and traditional Greek music from Asia Minor. Her recording career extended from the late 1920s into the 1970s. Her style was called Rebetiko, a type of Greek urban folk music that combines European and Middle Eastern music, and sometimes called the Greek blues, the themes being predominantly hard-luck women, no-good men, drinking, hashish and poverty.

'''Bessie Smith''' 
Smith (1894–1937) was an American blues singer. Sometimes referred to as "The Empress of the Blues," she is often regarded as one of the greatest singers of her era and a major influence on subsequent jazz vocalists. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Smith Wikipedia]

'''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]

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'''...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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