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

==Page 276==
'''"Thought you'd never want to speak to me again."''' 
So, now Doc and Penny deal with her betrayal (handing him over to the FBI on page 72) which was never mentioned when they spent the night together in between ([http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_8#Page_120 page 120]).

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

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

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

Then it appears that the narrator has made a slight error here: the text leads us to believe that the Eastern Division (now Conference) finals are being played; this is the round before the actual league championship. The Knicks defeated Milwaukee in the Eastern Division finals that year. The 1970 NBA finals were played between the Eastern and Western Division champions, New York and Los Angeles.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 282==
'''Eddie Robinson''' 
This would be the actor Edward G. Robinson, whose vocal style while portraying Caesar Enrico "Rico" Bandello in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Caesar_(film) Little Caesar] has become synonymous with "gangster talk" ever since.

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

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

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

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

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

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==Page 89==
'''Doc called Sancho next morning''' 
Morning, Saturday, March 28, 1970, the fifth day of the narrative.

'''Ginger . . . Skipper . . . Gilligan . . . Thurston Howell III . . . Lovey''' 
All are characters from the 1960s TV show [[G#gilligan|''Gilligan's Island'']]. The "code" would presumably be whether the aspiring actress (Ginger/Shasta) would end up with Gilligan/Doc, or whether she would end up with the rich man (Thurston Howell III/Mickey Wolfmann), who might or might not ever divorce his wife (Lovey/Sloane Wolfmann).

==Page 90==
'''Varathaned hatch-covers''' 
[http://www.rustoleum.com/CBGBrand.asp?bid=12 Varathane] is a brand of wood stains and polyurethane sealants.

'''Charlotte Amalie''' 
The largest city and capital of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Amalie,_United_States_Virgin_Islands US Virgina Islands].

'''Like new debt... from institutions in places like South Dakota that you send away for by filling out the back of match cover''' 
Sauncho's quote here echoes almost exactly Zoyd's thoughts in ''Vineland'' in regard to Isaiah Two Four's business proposition: "expecting some address in a distant state, obtained from a matchbook cover." (p. 19, ''Vineland'')

==Page 91==
'''Thomas Arnould''' 
An error. Should be [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Arnould "Joseph Arnould"], who wrote ''Law of Marine Insurance'' (1848).

'''Theophilus Parsons''' 
There were two men ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theophilus_Parsons father] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theophilus_Parsons_(professor) son]) named Theopilus Parsons in the nineteenth century. This reference is to the younger one, who published A Treatise on the Law of Marine Insurance and General Average in 1868.

==Page 92==
'''Your stomach isn't it.''' 
A listless way of saying "It's your stomach, so feel free to order whatever horrible food you desire."

'''L'il buddy''' 
Another reference to ''Gilligan's Island''. "L'il buddy" was the captain's nickname for Gilligan. See [[#Page 89|page 89]] for another instance of Doc being linked to Gilligan.

Also, Hector calls Zoyd this in ''Vineland'', see p. 26. The contraction is spelled li'l in ''Vineland'' but l'il in ''Inherent Vice''. The former is technically correct, since the elision (the "tt") is after the "i" rather than before it.

'''Eel Trovatore''' 
A perhaps obvious pun on Il Trovatore, the Verdi opera.

'''Burke Stodger''' 
This name is likely derived from a 1910 ''noir''-ish murder-mystery novel ''Paternoster Ruby'' by Charles Edmonds Walk. Alexander Stilwell Burke and Stodger, a plain-clothes cop, are two main characters. [http://books.google.com/books?id=kd54UWt8QC0C&dq=paternoster+ruby+charles+edmonds+walk&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=mfkqjKBGj4&sig=KGhSLPxiRPQqvVPLhOQ5WNEzSE8&hl=en&ei=mfBrStfrF4uAsgPltqmWBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1 Google Books] Perhaps Pynchon's slyly recycling here some unused stuff from his vast research for ''Against the Day''? A excerpt from Walk's novel:

:"Nasty case," Stodger was imparting, in queer staccato sentences. "Shouldn't have much difficulty, though; responsibility lies between two men. Here all last night. Nobody else. Callahan and O'Brien holdin' 'em. One 's Page's private secretary; fellow named Burke Alexander Stilwell Burke. Peach of a monicker, ain't it? Has all three sections on his cards.

:[...]

:Suddenly she snuggled closer and clasped her hands tightly upon my shoulder. Her hair teased my cheek, and the delicate perfume of it made me light-headed. Twisting her pretty head sideways, she flashed an arch look at me from under her lashes, then glanced quickly away again. Blue eyes and long dark lashes are a potently disturbing combination.

:"Well," she sighed, "the Page case may have cost you a fortune, but it gave you ''me''. And ''I'' for one am very content and happy, Mr. Swift."

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'''a three-hour tour''' 
Yet another reference to ''Gilligan's Island''. This is a quote from the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qycmb7_LvsA theme song].

==Page 95==
'''"deep interrogation"''' 
Well, it ''could'' be a reference to throwing folks into the deep blue sea. However, in the 1970s, long before Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib and "enhanced interrogation," Britain utilized “deep interrogation” techniques in an effort to defeat the Irish Republican Army. ''Constitutions in Crisis: Political Violence and the Rule of Law'' by John E. Finn (Oxford University Press, 1990) examines how the efforts of two western liberal democracies, the United Kingdom and the Federal Republic of Germany, to cope with domestic terrorism threatens their constitutional integrity. Finn argues first that widespread political violence challenges the presuppositions of constitutional authority in any liberal democracy, namely that reason and deliberation, and not passion or will, can be the basis of political community. He defines "deep interrogation":

:"Deep interrogation" a bureaucratic phrase which takes the place of the simpler word "torture" and is worth of Orwell's ''1984'' is on a different level of immorality than hysterical sadism or the indiscriminate bomb of urban guerrillas. It is something organised with imagination and a knowledge of psychology, calculated and cold blooded ... [http://books.google.com/books?id=3s3ZGy0RAK4C&pg=PA69&lpg=PA69&dq=%22deep+interrogation%22+-pynchon&source=bl&ots=sfcbvQr90m&sig=iRr8MpNtWD3Cax-7bqlAwyigsvE&hl=en&ei=JFfZSsr-IIL8sgPgsKGNBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CBMQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22deep%20interrogation%22%20-pynchon&f=false] ([http://www.amazon.com/Constitutions-Crisis-Political-Violence-Rule/dp/0195057384/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255758301&sr=1-1 Buy it...])

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[[image:zuckys.jpg|right|150px|thumb|caption|Zucky's Delicatessen]]'''Zucky's''' 
Pronounced zoo'-keys, Zucky's was run by Zucky and Hy Altman, founders of the SOVA food pantries, and frequented by such celebrities as Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger - who would meet there for breakfast every morning before continuing on to the gym, back in the day. Closed since 1993, it was located at the corner of Wilshire and 5th Street, in Santa Monica. It was one of the few places open after 10pm in Santa Monica.

'''''Marcus Welby, M.D.''''' 
Hour long medical drama that aired on ABC from '69-'76. Took place in Santa Monica and ranked first in Nielsens for the year 1970. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRmhb7mhiB4 View the opening credits] where Zucky's sign appears on the left side at :08 in.

'''what Cheech and Chong might call matzo-ball jones?''' 
Punned reference to "Basketball Jones", song on Cheech and Chong "Los Cochinos" album with release date 1973.

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'''Philip Marlowe''' 
Raymond Chandler's famous detective, featured in Chandler's many novels set in LA, including ''The Big Sleep'' (1939; his first appearance), ''Farewell My Lovely'', and ''The Long Goodbye''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Marlowe] There are many important parallels between Pynchon's Doc and Chandler's Marlowe, especially his world-weariness, his fondness for certain drugs of choice, and a penchant for cracking wise and getting beaten up and worse. (John D. MacDonald's fictional detective Travis McGee is also an important predecessor; see below). Of all Chandler's fiction, ''Farewell My Lovely'' (1940), which many think is Chandler's best, may be most relevant for the plot and themes of ''Inherent Vice''. For instance, in that novel Marlowe stays in a hotel in Venice Beach before going out to Laird Brunette's offshore gambling boat, the ''Montecino''. ''Farewell My Lovely'' also has "rehab" centers that serve as a front for torture and murder; characters with hidden identities; an impossibly convoluted plot; and a literary style that features striking metaphors, similes, and literary allusions. Marlowe is, like Doc, a dark mixture of cynicism, doggedness, and indifference--yet his goodness and inherent virtues can't be killed. To trace the parallels with Chandler's Marlowe, though, is to see how fully Pynchon has transformed and deepened the generic conventions of 1930s and '40s detective fiction (and film noir inspired by it) even as he pays homage to these.

'''Sam Spade''' 
Dashiell Hammett's detective in ''The Maltese Falcon'' (1930) and other crime fiction; in John Huston's famous film based on the novel, he's played by Humphrey Bogart. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Spade]

'''Johnny Staccato''' 
''Johnny Staccato'' is a private detective series which ran for twenty-seven episodes on NBC from 1959-1960. Title character Johnny Staccato, played by John Cassavetes (1929-1989), is a jazz pianist/private detective. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Staccato]

'''Krazy Kat''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krazy_Kat ''Krazy Kat''] was a popular comic strip that ran in newspapers from 1913 to 1944. Ignatz and Offisa Pupp are characters.

'''Steve McGarrett''' 
Detective in the TV show [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii_Five-O ''Hawaii Five-0''], important to both [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_5#Page_60 ''Vineland''] and ''Inherent Vice.''

'''"but nowadays it's all you see anymore is...fuckin cop shows"''' 
Compare with today's television being saturated with programs which typically feature forensics specialists who inexplicably have the authority to make arrests and conduct interrogations, and are still "just being regular guys, only tryin to do their job, folks, no more threat to nobody's freedom than some dad in a sitcom."

'''"Why not get a houseboat up in the Sacramento Delta--smoke, drink, fish, fuck..."''' 
It's tough not to see this as a nod to Doc's brother shamus Travis McGee, the creation of Florida writer John D. MacDonald. McGee lives on a houseboat, taking his "retirement in installments," drinking, lounging on Florida beaches, meeting and inevitably helping beautiful women out of troubles that almost always involve a sinister land broker or two. Along the way Trav usually ends up pontificating about rapacious land developers, the increasingly artificial and isolated American lifestyle, and people's loss of connection with the natural world. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_McGee]

==Page 98==
'''Sunrise was on the way''' 
Early morning, Sunday, March 29, 1970, the sixth day of the narrative, and Easter Sunday.

:March 29 doesn't ''quite'' jibe with "It was late winter in Gordita" (line 5) or, on [[#Page_102|page 102]], "the wintertime smell of crude oil..." (line 11). Spring comes sometime between the 19th to the 23rd of March, so according to Pynchon here we're sometime before March 29, yes?

[http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KLAX/1970/3/29/DailyHistory.html?req_city=Los+Angeles+International&req_state=CA&req_statename=California Here] is the weather for March 29--a pretty average day by L.A. standards.

'''[T]he engine sounds were not passing across the sky where they should have . . .''' 
An apparent allusion to the opening line of [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow'']. As a consequence of this, "everybody's dreams got disarranged," which also seems to be happening on ''GR's'' first page.

==Page 99==
'''two plastic skegs''' 
A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeg skeg] is a fin attached to rear of a surfboard.

'''Waimea''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waimea_Bay Waimea Bay], on the North Shore of Oahu in Hawaii, is one of the planet's premier big-wave surfing locations, with gigantic swells in winter. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWHHqw_OniU Video.]

'''Maverick's''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mavericks_%28location%29 Big wave] in Northern California. Trivia alert: apparently named after a dog who swam out with the first people who tried, but failed, to surf the wave. While no one was surfing this now famous wave until the mid-70s, it had been known about at least since 1961. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcioR3ElH60 Video.]

'''Todos Santos''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhQtzxGEG6Y Video] of these big waves [http://www.todossantos-baja.com/todos-santos/surfing/surf-photos.htm near Baja.]

'''riding goofyfoot''' 
This is a surfing/skateboarding term for someone who rides left-footed. So-called regular foot riders keep their left foot at the front of the board, but goofyfoot riders put their right foot at the front. More [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footedness here].

'''Doc, also up early''' 
Early morning, Sunday, March 29, 1970, the sixth day of the narrative.

'''double-cross whites''' 
[http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/streetTerms/ByType.asp?intTypeID=9 Amphetamines].

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'''a surfer or two who'd found and ridden other breaks [...] unphotographed and unrecorded''' 
Even though Pynchon's reference to Mavericks would seem an anachronism, as no one other than a couple surfers had even tried Mavericks until Jeff Clark began riding the gigantic break in 1975, alone, until 1990 when he convinced some other surfers to check it out, this description would seem to fit Jeff Clark perfectly, discovering and surfing, alone, some of the largest waves on the planet. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Clark Jeff Clark Wikipedia entry...] Pynchon himself, as we all know, likes to remain unphotographed.

==Page 101==
'''Surfaris laugh . . . "Hooo-oo-oo-oo---Wipeout!"''' 
[[image:surfaris-dot-decca.jpg|200px|right|thumb|caption|"Wipe Out" - Decca & Dot]][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wipe_Out_(song) "Wipe Out"] was a 1962 hit originally performed by the Surfaris. You can hear the song, including the insane laugh (provided by their producer/manager Dale Smallin) and a 2x4 being cracked in half, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UofdWQG346k here].

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 Surfaris and "Wipe Out" have a surprisingly tangled history:

:Dot records was the national distributer of "Wipe Out" and the label quickly wanted to capitalize on its success, but rather than use the Surfaris they had The Challengers do covers of other intrumental hits. The only songs that are from the Surfaris on the "Wipe Out" LP are the 2 sides of that single. After the single took off they were quickly brought in to tape an album. It was in the can 12 hours later. Only a week went by before it was out in the record bins. This was a big surprise to the Surfaris. They were even more surprised realize that aside from "Wipe Out" and "Surfer Joe" the remainder of the LP was not them! When they confronted their manager (The Laugh guy in the "Wipe Out" intro), he told them the producers had to add a few overdubs and to listen closer. The more they listened the more they doubted this story. Finally the manager admitted that union musicians had been brought in to do the songs they had recorded. When they realized they had no legal binding contract from Dot records they went off in a huff to Decca records and recorded their ''real'' debut LP, "The Surfaris Play". They were required to re-record "Wipe Out" as Dot did have the rights to it! [http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1203]

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Surfaris Wikipedia entry for the Surfaris...]

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[[image:Barney-Fife_bw.jpg|right|caption|thumb|125px|Barney Fife / Don Knotts]]<div id="barney">'''barney quota'''</div>
"Barney" in this context refers to the character Barney Fife from [http://www.theandygriffithshow.net/barney_fife.htm ''The Andy Griffith Show''] an American sitcom which aired on CBS from 1960-1968. Fife was an incompetent blowhard who was overly zealous as a police officer and was played by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Knotts Don Knotts] (1924-2006) [http://www.theandygriffithshow.net/barney_fife.htm More on the Barney Fife character...]

'''in the slow seep of dawn''' 
Early morning, Sunday, March 29, 1970, the sixth day of the narrative.

'''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shikantaza shikantaza]''' 
A Zen Buddhist discipline which recommends "just sitting".

==Page 103==
'''Mira Costa''' 
A [http://www.mchs.manhattan.k12.ca.us/education/school/school.php?sectionid=2 high school] in Manhattan Beach, CA.

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

==Page 105==
'''"Earth has an immune system, too...like the oil industry"''' 
Recalls Kurt Vonnegut's quote, "We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should." From [http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-september-13-2005/kurt-vonnegut his appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart].

'''Atlantis and Lemuria''' 
The mythical continent of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemuria_(continent) Lemuria] is mentioned throughout ''Inherent Vice''. Shasta Fay Hepworth's namesake, Mt. Shasta in Northern California is [http://www.lemurianconnection.com/en/about-mount-shasta.htm believed by some] to be the home of Lemuria's survivors.

'''Owsley''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owsley_Stanley Owsley Stanley.] Famous large-scale supplier of LSD.

==Page 106==
'''Doc's name then was something like Xqq''' 
Doc's name, and the dual-sun planet on which he resided, is reminiscent of Italo Calvino's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmicomics ''Cosmicomics''] (1965) which takes place billions of years ago before Earth and on an early Earth, and has characters with names such as Qfwfq and (k)yK and Lll. Each story takes a scientific "fact" (though sometimes a falsehood by today's understanding), and builds an imaginative story around it. From the dustjacket blurb:

:The narrator, Qfwfq, spends his childhood in the soundless, timeless void; among the incandescent colors of stellar explosions, he plays with hydrogen atoms like marbles and, sitting astride a galaxy, chases his friend Pfwfp around the firmament. Or, as an adolescent on the new Earth, he has his first shy love affairs with Ayl, Lll, and Mrs. Vhd Vhd...

'''osmium''' 
A chemical element that has the symbol Os and atomic number 76. Osmium is a hard, brittle, blue-gray or blue-black transition metal in the platinum family, and is the densest natural element.

'''you'll be the same size and density''' 
This discussion of Doc's "density" is reminiscent of Mondaugen's Law in [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_505-518#Page_509 ''Gravity's Rainbow'']: "Personal density [...] is directly proportional to temporal bandwidth":

:"Temporal bandwidth" is the width of your present, your ''now''. It is the familiar "delta t" considered as a dependent variable. The more you dwell in the past and in the future, the thicker your bandwidth, the more solid your persona. But the narrower your sense of Now, the more tenuous you are. It may get to where you're having trouble remembering what you were doing five minutes ago, or even as Slothrop now what you're doing ''here'', at the base of this colossal curved embankment... [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_505-518#Page_509]

Well, Doc, transported to Earth 3 billion years in the future, is certainly dwelling the future and indeed his density is very high. However, the Doc we've come to know here more closely seems to fit the description of someone with a very narrow "sense of Now."

==Page 110==
'''They were outside on the beach, it was nighttime''' 
Night, Sunday, March 29, 1970, the sixth day of the narrative.

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==Page 89==
'''Doc called Sancho next morning''' 
Morning, Saturday, March 28, 1970, the fifth day of the narrative.

'''Ginger . . . Skipper . . . Gilligan . . . Thurston Howell III . . . Lovey''' 
All are characters from the 1960s TV show [[G#gilligan|''Gilligan's Island'']]. The "code" would presumably be whether the aspiring actress (Ginger/Shasta) would end up with Gilligan/Doc, or whether she would end up with the rich man (Thurston Howell III/Mickey Wolfmann), who might or might not ever divorce his wife (Lovey/Sloane Wolfmann).

==Page 90==
'''Varathaned hatch-covers''' 
[http://www.rustoleum.com/CBGBrand.asp?bid=12 Varathane] is a brand of wood stains and polyurethane sealants.

'''Charlotte Amalie''' 
The largest city and capital of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Amalie,_United_States_Virgin_Islands US Virgina Islands].

'''Like new debt... from institutions in places like South Dakota that you send away for by filling out the back of match cover''' 
Sauncho's quote here echoes almost exactly Zoyd's thoughts in ''Vineland'' in regard to Isaiah Two Four's business proposition: "expecting some address in a distant state, obtained from a matchbook cover." (p. 19, ''Vineland'')

==Page 91==
'''Thomas Arnould''' 
An error. Should be [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Arnould "Joseph Arnould"], who wrote ''Law of Marine Insurance'' (1848).

'''Theophilus Parsons''' 
There were two men ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theophilus_Parsons father] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theophilus_Parsons_(professor) son]) named Theopilus Parsons in the nineteenth century. This reference is to the younger one, who published A Treatise on the Law of Marine Insurance and General Average in 1868.

==Page 92==
'''Your stomach isn't it.''' 
A listless way of saying "It's your stomach, so feel free to order whatever horrible food you desire."

'''L'il buddy''' 
Another reference to ''Gilligan's Island''. "L'il buddy" was the captain's nickname for Gilligan. See [[#Page 89|page 89]] for another instance of Doc being linked to Gilligan.

Also, Hector calls Zoyd this in ''Vineland'', see p. 26. The contraction is spelled li'l in ''Vineland'' but l'il in ''Inherent Vice''. The former is technically correct, since the elision (the "tt") is after the "i" rather than before it.

'''Eel Trovatore''' 
A perhaps obvious pun on Il Trovatore, the Verdi opera.

'''Burke Stodger''' 
This name is likely derived from a 1910 ''noir''-ish murder-mystery novel ''Paternoster Ruby'' by Charles Edmonds Walk. Alexander Stilwell Burke and Stodger, a plain-clothes cop, are two main characters. [http://books.google.com/books?id=kd54UWt8QC0C&dq=paternoster+ruby+charles+edmonds+walk&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=mfkqjKBGj4&sig=KGhSLPxiRPQqvVPLhOQ5WNEzSE8&hl=en&ei=mfBrStfrF4uAsgPltqmWBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1 Google Books] Perhaps Pynchon's slyly recycling here some unused stuff from his vast research for ''Against the Day''? A excerpt from Walk's novel:

:"Nasty case," Stodger was imparting, in queer staccato sentences. "Shouldn't have much difficulty, though; responsibility lies between two men. Here all last night. Nobody else. Callahan and O'Brien holdin' 'em. One 's Page's private secretary; fellow named Burke Alexander Stilwell Burke. Peach of a monicker, ain't it? Has all three sections on his cards.

:[...]

:Suddenly she snuggled closer and clasped her hands tightly upon my shoulder. Her hair teased my cheek, and the delicate perfume of it made me light-headed. Twisting her pretty head sideways, she flashed an arch look at me from under her lashes, then glanced quickly away again. Blue eyes and long dark lashes are a potently disturbing combination.

:"Well," she sighed, "the Page case may have cost you a fortune, but it gave you ''me''. And ''I'' for one am very content and happy, Mr. Swift."

==Page 93==
'''a three-hour tour''' 
Yet another reference to ''Gilligan's Island''. This is a quote from the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qycmb7_LvsA theme song].

==Page 95==
'''"deep interrogation"''' 
Well, it ''could'' be a reference to throwing folks into the deep blue sea. However, in the 1970s, long before Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib and "enhanced interrogation," Britain utilized “deep interrogation” techniques in an effort to defeat the Irish Republican Army. ''Constitutions in Crisis: Political Violence and the Rule of Law'' by John E. Finn (Oxford University Press, 1990) examines how the efforts of two western liberal democracies, the United Kingdom and the Federal Republic of Germany, to cope with domestic terrorism threatens their constitutional integrity. Finn argues first that widespread political violence challenges the presuppositions of constitutional authority in any liberal democracy, namely that reason and deliberation, and not passion or will, can be the basis of political community. He defines "deep interrogation":

:"Deep interrogation" a bureaucratic phrase which takes the place of the simpler word "torture" and is worth of Orwell's ''1984'' is on a different level of immorality than hysterical sadism or the indiscriminate bomb of urban guerrillas. It is something organised with imagination and a knowledge of psychology, calculated and cold blooded ... [http://books.google.com/books?id=3s3ZGy0RAK4C&pg=PA69&lpg=PA69&dq=%22deep+interrogation%22+-pynchon&source=bl&ots=sfcbvQr90m&sig=iRr8MpNtWD3Cax-7bqlAwyigsvE&hl=en&ei=JFfZSsr-IIL8sgPgsKGNBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CBMQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22deep%20interrogation%22%20-pynchon&f=false] ([http://www.amazon.com/Constitutions-Crisis-Political-Violence-Rule/dp/0195057384/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255758301&sr=1-1 Buy it...])

==Page 96==
[[image:zuckys.jpg|right|150px|thumb|caption|Zucky's Delicatessen]]'''Zucky's''' 
Pronounced zoo'-keys, Zucky's was run by Zucky and Hy Altman, founders of the SOVA food pantries, and frequented by such celebrities as Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger - who would meet there for breakfast every morning before continuing on to the gym, back in the day. Closed since 1993, it was located at the corner of Wilshire and 5th Street, in Santa Monica. It was one of the few places open after 10pm in Santa Monica.

'''''Marcus Welby, M.D.''''' 
Hour long medical drama that aired on ABC from '69-'76. Took place in Santa Monica and ranked first in Nielsens for the year 1970. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRmhb7mhiB4 View the opening credits] where Zucky's sign appears on the left side at :08 in.

'''what Cheech and Chong might call matzo-ball jones?''' 
Punned reference to "Basketball Jones", song on Cheech and Chong "Los Cochinos" album with release date 1973.

==Page 97==
'''Philip Marlowe''' 
Raymond Chandler's famous detective, featured in Chandler's many novels set in LA, including ''The Big Sleep'' (1939; his first appearance), ''Farewell My Lovely'', and ''The Long Goodbye''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Marlowe] There are many important parallels between Pynchon's Doc and Chandler's Marlowe, especially his world-weariness, his fondness for certain drugs of choice, and a penchant for cracking wise and getting beaten up and worse. (John D. MacDonald's fictional detective Travis McGee is also an important predecessor; see below). Of all Chandler's fiction, ''Farewell My Lovely'' (1940), which many think is Chandler's best, may be most relevant for the plot and themes of ''Inherent Vice''. For instance, in that novel Marlowe stays in a hotel in Venice Beach before going out to Laird Brunette's offshore gambling boat, the ''Montecino''. ''Farewell My Lovely'' also has "rehab" centers that serve as a front for torture and murder; characters with hidden identities; an impossibly convoluted plot; and a literary style that features striking metaphors, similes, and literary allusions. Marlowe is, like Doc, a dark mixture of cynicism, doggedness, and indifference--yet his goodness and inherent virtues can't be killed. To trace the parallels with Chandler's Marlowe, though, is to see how fully Pynchon has transformed and deepened the generic conventions of 1930s and '40s detective fiction (and film noir inspired by it) even as he pays homage to these.

'''Sam Spade''' 
Dashiell Hammett's detective in ''The Maltese Falcon'' (1930) and other crime fiction; in John Huston's famous film based on the novel, he's played by Humphrey Bogart. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Spade]

'''Johnny Staccato''' 
''Johnny Staccato'' is a private detective series which ran for twenty-seven episodes on NBC from 1959-1960. Title character Johnny Staccato, played by John Cassavetes (1929-1989), is a jazz pianist/private detective. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Staccato]

'''Krazy Kat''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krazy_Kat ''Krazy Kat''] was a popular comic strip that ran in newspapers from 1913 to 1944. Ignatz and Offisa Pupp are characters.

'''Steve McGarrett''' 
Detective in the TV show [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii_Five-O ''Hawaii Five-0''], important to both [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_5#Page_60 ''Vineland''] and ''Inherent Vice.''

'''"but nowadays it's all you see anymore is...fuckin cop shows"''' 
Compare with today's television being saturated with programs which typically feature forensic-science specialists who inexplicably have the authority to make arrests and conduct interrogations, and are still "just being regular guys, only tryin to do their job, folks, no more threat to nobody's freedom than some dad in a sitcom."

'''"Why not get a houseboat up in the Sacramento Delta--smoke, drink, fish, fuck..."''' 
It's tough not to see this as a nod to Doc's brother shamus Travis McGee, the creation of Florida writer John D. MacDonald. McGee lives on a houseboat, taking his "retirement in installments," drinking, lounging on Florida beaches, meeting and inevitably helping beautiful women out of troubles that almost always involve a sinister land broker or two. Along the way Trav usually ends up pontificating about rapacious land developers, the increasingly artificial and isolated American lifestyle, and people's loss of connection with the natural world. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_McGee]

==Page 98==
'''Sunrise was on the way''' 
Early morning, Sunday, March 29, 1970, the sixth day of the narrative, and Easter Sunday.

:March 29 doesn't ''quite'' jibe with "It was late winter in Gordita" (line 5) or, on [[#Page_102|page 102]], "the wintertime smell of crude oil..." (line 11). Spring comes sometime between the 19th to the 23rd of March, so according to Pynchon here we're sometime before March 29, yes?

[http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KLAX/1970/3/29/DailyHistory.html?req_city=Los+Angeles+International&req_state=CA&req_statename=California Here] is the weather for March 29--a pretty average day by L.A. standards.

'''[T]he engine sounds were not passing across the sky where they should have . . .''' 
An apparent allusion to the opening line of [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow'']. As a consequence of this, "everybody's dreams got disarranged," which also seems to be happening on ''GR's'' first page.

==Page 99==
'''two plastic skegs''' 
A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeg skeg] is a fin attached to rear of a surfboard.

'''Waimea''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waimea_Bay Waimea Bay], on the North Shore of Oahu in Hawaii, is one of the planet's premier big-wave surfing locations, with gigantic swells in winter. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWHHqw_OniU Video.]

'''Maverick's''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mavericks_%28location%29 Big wave] in Northern California. Trivia alert: apparently named after a dog who swam out with the first people who tried, but failed, to surf the wave. While no one was surfing this now famous wave until the mid-70s, it had been known about at least since 1961. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcioR3ElH60 Video.]

'''Todos Santos''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhQtzxGEG6Y Video] of these big waves [http://www.todossantos-baja.com/todos-santos/surfing/surf-photos.htm near Baja.]

'''riding goofyfoot''' 
This is a surfing/skateboarding term for someone who rides left-footed. So-called regular foot riders keep their left foot at the front of the board, but goofyfoot riders put their right foot at the front. More [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footedness here].

'''Doc, also up early''' 
Early morning, Sunday, March 29, 1970, the sixth day of the narrative.

'''double-cross whites''' 
[http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/streetTerms/ByType.asp?intTypeID=9 Amphetamines].

==Page 100==
'''a surfer or two who'd found and ridden other breaks [...] unphotographed and unrecorded''' 
Even though Pynchon's reference to Mavericks would seem an anachronism, as no one other than a couple surfers had even tried Mavericks until Jeff Clark began riding the gigantic break in 1975, alone, until 1990 when he convinced some other surfers to check it out, this description would seem to fit Jeff Clark perfectly, discovering and surfing, alone, some of the largest waves on the planet. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Clark Jeff Clark Wikipedia entry...] Pynchon himself, as we all know, likes to remain unphotographed.

==Page 101==
'''Surfaris laugh . . . "Hooo-oo-oo-oo---Wipeout!"''' 
[[image:surfaris-dot-decca.jpg|200px|right|thumb|caption|"Wipe Out" - Decca & Dot]][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wipe_Out_(song) "Wipe Out"] was a 1962 hit originally performed by the Surfaris. You can hear the song, including the insane laugh (provided by their producer/manager Dale Smallin) and a 2x4 being cracked in half, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UofdWQG346k here].

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 Surfaris and "Wipe Out" have a surprisingly tangled history:

:Dot records was the national distributer of "Wipe Out" and the label quickly wanted to capitalize on its success, but rather than use the Surfaris they had The Challengers do covers of other intrumental hits. The only songs that are from the Surfaris on the "Wipe Out" LP are the 2 sides of that single. After the single took off they were quickly brought in to tape an album. It was in the can 12 hours later. Only a week went by before it was out in the record bins. This was a big surprise to the Surfaris. They were even more surprised realize that aside from "Wipe Out" and "Surfer Joe" the remainder of the LP was not them! When they confronted their manager (The Laugh guy in the "Wipe Out" intro), he told them the producers had to add a few overdubs and to listen closer. The more they listened the more they doubted this story. Finally the manager admitted that union musicians had been brought in to do the songs they had recorded. When they realized they had no legal binding contract from Dot records they went off in a huff to Decca records and recorded their ''real'' debut LP, "The Surfaris Play". They were required to re-record "Wipe Out" as Dot did have the rights to it! [http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1203]

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Surfaris Wikipedia entry for the Surfaris...]

==Page 102==
[[image:Barney-Fife_bw.jpg|right|caption|thumb|125px|Barney Fife / Don Knotts]]<div id="barney">'''barney quota'''</div>
"Barney" in this context refers to the character Barney Fife from [http://www.theandygriffithshow.net/barney_fife.htm ''The Andy Griffith Show''] an American sitcom which aired on CBS from 1960-1968. Fife was an incompetent blowhard who was overly zealous as a police officer and was played by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Knotts Don Knotts] (1924-2006) [http://www.theandygriffithshow.net/barney_fife.htm More on the Barney Fife character...]

'''in the slow seep of dawn''' 
Early morning, Sunday, March 29, 1970, the sixth day of the narrative.

'''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shikantaza shikantaza]''' 
A Zen Buddhist discipline which recommends "just sitting".

==Page 103==
'''Mira Costa''' 
A [http://www.mchs.manhattan.k12.ca.us/education/school/school.php?sectionid=2 high school] in Manhattan Beach, CA.

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

==Page 105==
'''"Earth has an immune system, too...like the oil industry"''' 
Recalls Kurt Vonnegut's quote, "We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should." From [http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-september-13-2005/kurt-vonnegut his appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart].

'''Atlantis and Lemuria''' 
The mythical continent of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemuria_(continent) Lemuria] is mentioned throughout ''Inherent Vice''. Shasta Fay Hepworth's namesake, Mt. Shasta in Northern California is [http://www.lemurianconnection.com/en/about-mount-shasta.htm believed by some] to be the home of Lemuria's survivors.

'''Owsley''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owsley_Stanley Owsley Stanley.] Famous large-scale supplier of LSD.

==Page 106==
'''Doc's name then was something like Xqq''' 
Doc's name, and the dual-sun planet on which he resided, is reminiscent of Italo Calvino's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmicomics ''Cosmicomics''] (1965) which takes place billions of years ago before Earth and on an early Earth, and has characters with names such as Qfwfq and (k)yK and Lll. Each story takes a scientific "fact" (though sometimes a falsehood by today's understanding), and builds an imaginative story around it. From the dustjacket blurb:

:The narrator, Qfwfq, spends his childhood in the soundless, timeless void; among the incandescent colors of stellar explosions, he plays with hydrogen atoms like marbles and, sitting astride a galaxy, chases his friend Pfwfp around the firmament. Or, as an adolescent on the new Earth, he has his first shy love affairs with Ayl, Lll, and Mrs. Vhd Vhd...

'''osmium''' 
A chemical element that has the symbol Os and atomic number 76. Osmium is a hard, brittle, blue-gray or blue-black transition metal in the platinum family, and is the densest natural element.

'''you'll be the same size and density''' 
This discussion of Doc's "density" is reminiscent of Mondaugen's Law in [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_505-518#Page_509 ''Gravity's Rainbow'']: "Personal density [...] is directly proportional to temporal bandwidth":

:"Temporal bandwidth" is the width of your present, your ''now''. It is the familiar "delta t" considered as a dependent variable. The more you dwell in the past and in the future, the thicker your bandwidth, the more solid your persona. But the narrower your sense of Now, the more tenuous you are. It may get to where you're having trouble remembering what you were doing five minutes ago, or even as Slothrop now what you're doing ''here'', at the base of this colossal curved embankment... [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_505-518#Page_509]

Well, Doc, transported to Earth 3 billion years in the future, is certainly dwelling the future and indeed his density is very high. However, the Doc we've come to know here more closely seems to fit the description of someone with a very narrow "sense of Now."

==Page 110==
'''They were outside on the beach, it was nighttime''' 
Night, Sunday, March 29, 1970, the sixth day of the narrative.

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==Page 89==
'''Doc called Sancho next morning''' 
Morning, Saturday, March 28, 1970, the fifth day of the narrative.

'''Ginger . . . Skipper . . . Gilligan . . . Thurston Howell III . . . Lovey''' 
All are characters from the 1960s TV show [[G#gilligan|''Gilligan's Island'']]. The "code" would presumably be whether the aspiring actress (Ginger/Shasta) would end up with Gilligan/Doc, or whether she would end up with the rich man (Thurston Howell III/Mickey Wolfmann), who might or might not ever divorce his wife (Lovey/Sloane Wolfmann).

==Page 90==
'''Varathaned hatch-covers''' 
[http://www.rustoleum.com/CBGBrand.asp?bid=12 Varathane] is a brand of wood stains and polyurethane sealants.

'''Charlotte Amalie''' 
The largest city and capital of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Amalie,_United_States_Virgin_Islands US Virgina Islands].

'''Like new debt... from institutions in places like South Dakota that you send away for by filling out the back of match cover''' 
Sauncho's quote here echoes almost exactly Zoyd's thoughts in ''Vineland'' in regard to Isaiah Two Four's business proposition: "expecting some address in a distant state, obtained from a matchbook cover." (p. 19, ''Vineland'')

==Page 91==
'''Thomas Arnould''' 
An error. Should be [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Arnould "Joseph Arnould"], who wrote ''Law of Marine Insurance'' (1848).

'''Theophilus Parsons''' 
There were two men ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theophilus_Parsons father] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theophilus_Parsons_(professor) son]) named Theopilus Parsons in the nineteenth century. This reference is to the younger one, who published A Treatise on the Law of Marine Insurance and General Average in 1868.

==Page 92==
'''Your stomach isn't it.''' 
A listless way of saying "It's your stomach, so feel free to order whatever horrible food you desire."

'''L'il buddy''' 
Another reference to ''Gilligan's Island''. "L'il buddy" was the captain's nickname for Gilligan. See [[#Page 89|page 89]] for another instance of Doc being linked to Gilligan.

Also, Hector calls Zoyd this in ''Vineland'', see p. 26. The contraction is spelled li'l in ''Vineland'' but l'il in ''Inherent Vice''. The former is technically correct, since the elision (the "tt") is after the "i" rather than before it.

'''Eel Trovatore''' 
A perhaps obvious pun on Il Trovatore, the Verdi opera.

'''Burke Stodger''' 
This name is likely derived from a 1910 ''noir''-ish murder-mystery novel ''Paternoster Ruby'' by Charles Edmonds Walk. Alexander Stilwell Burke and Stodger, a plain-clothes cop, are two main characters. [http://books.google.com/books?id=kd54UWt8QC0C&dq=paternoster+ruby+charles+edmonds+walk&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=mfkqjKBGj4&sig=KGhSLPxiRPQqvVPLhOQ5WNEzSE8&hl=en&ei=mfBrStfrF4uAsgPltqmWBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1 Google Books] Perhaps Pynchon's slyly recycling here some unused stuff from his vast research for ''Against the Day''? A excerpt from Walk's novel:

:"Nasty case," Stodger was imparting, in queer staccato sentences. "Shouldn't have much difficulty, though; responsibility lies between two men. Here all last night. Nobody else. Callahan and O'Brien holdin' 'em. One 's Page's private secretary; fellow named Burke Alexander Stilwell Burke. Peach of a monicker, ain't it? Has all three sections on his cards.

:[...]

:Suddenly she snuggled closer and clasped her hands tightly upon my shoulder. Her hair teased my cheek, and the delicate perfume of it made me light-headed. Twisting her pretty head sideways, she flashed an arch look at me from under her lashes, then glanced quickly away again. Blue eyes and long dark lashes are a potently disturbing combination.

:"Well," she sighed, "the Page case may have cost you a fortune, but it gave you ''me''. And ''I'' for one am very content and happy, Mr. Swift."

==Page 93==
'''a three-hour tour''' 
Yet another reference to ''Gilligan's Island''. This is a quote from the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qycmb7_LvsA theme song].

==Page 95==
'''"deep interrogation"''' 
Well, it ''could'' be a reference to throwing folks into the deep blue sea. However, in the 1970s, long before Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib and "enhanced interrogation," Britain utilized “deep interrogation” techniques in an effort to defeat the Irish Republican Army. ''Constitutions in Crisis: Political Violence and the Rule of Law'' by John E. Finn (Oxford University Press, 1990) examines how the efforts of two western liberal democracies, the United Kingdom and the Federal Republic of Germany, to cope with domestic terrorism threatens their constitutional integrity. Finn argues first that widespread political violence challenges the presuppositions of constitutional authority in any liberal democracy, namely that reason and deliberation, and not passion or will, can be the basis of political community. He defines "deep interrogation":

:"Deep interrogation" a bureaucratic phrase which takes the place of the simpler word "torture" and is worth of Orwell's ''1984'' is on a different level of immorality than hysterical sadism or the indiscriminate bomb of urban guerrillas. It is something organised with imagination and a knowledge of psychology, calculated and cold blooded ... [http://books.google.com/books?id=3s3ZGy0RAK4C&pg=PA69&lpg=PA69&dq=%22deep+interrogation%22+-pynchon&source=bl&ots=sfcbvQr90m&sig=iRr8MpNtWD3Cax-7bqlAwyigsvE&hl=en&ei=JFfZSsr-IIL8sgPgsKGNBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CBMQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22deep%20interrogation%22%20-pynchon&f=false] ([http://www.amazon.com/Constitutions-Crisis-Political-Violence-Rule/dp/0195057384/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255758301&sr=1-1 Buy it...])

==Page 96==
[[image:zuckys.jpg|right|150px|thumb|caption|Zucky's Delicatessen]]'''Zucky's''' 
Pronounced zoo'-keys, Zucky's was run by Zucky and Hy Altman, founders of the SOVA food pantries, and frequented by such celebrities as Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger - who would meet there for breakfast every morning before continuing on to the gym, back in the day. Closed since 1993, it was located at the corner of Wilshire and 5th Street, in Santa Monica. It was one of the few places open after 10pm in Santa Monica.

'''''Marcus Welby, M.D.''''' 
Hour long medical drama that aired on ABC from '69-'76. Took place in Santa Monica and ranked first in Nielsens for the year 1970. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRmhb7mhiB4 View the opening credits] where Zucky's sign appears on the left side at :08 in.

'''what Cheech and Chong might call matzo-ball jones?''' 
Punned reference to "Basketball Jones", song on Cheech and Chong "Los Cochinos" album with release date 1973.

==Page 97==
'''Philip Marlowe''' 
Raymond Chandler's famous detective, featured in Chandler's many novels set in LA, including ''The Big Sleep'' (1939; his first appearance), ''Farewell My Lovely'', and ''The Long Goodbye''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Marlowe] There are many important parallels between Pynchon's Doc and Chandler's Marlowe, especially his world-weariness, his fondness for certain drugs of choice, and a penchant for cracking wise and getting beaten up and worse. (John D. MacDonald's fictional detective Travis McGee is also an important predecessor; see below). Of all Chandler's fiction, ''Farewell My Lovely'' (1940), which many think is Chandler's best, may be most relevant for the plot and themes of ''Inherent Vice''. For instance, in that novel Marlowe stays in a hotel in Venice Beach before going out to Laird Brunette's offshore gambling boat, the ''Montecino''. ''Farewell My Lovely'' also has "rehab" centers that serve as a front for torture and murder; characters with hidden identities; an impossibly convoluted plot; and a literary style that features striking metaphors, similes, and literary allusions. Marlowe is, like Doc, a dark mixture of cynicism, doggedness, and indifference--yet his goodness and inherent virtues can't be killed. To trace the parallels with Chandler's Marlowe, though, is to see how fully Pynchon has transformed and deepened the generic conventions of 1930s and '40s detective fiction (and film noir inspired by it) even as he pays homage to these.

'''Sam Spade''' 
Dashiell Hammett's detective in ''The Maltese Falcon'' (1930) and other crime fiction; in John Huston's famous film based on the novel, he's played by Humphrey Bogart. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Spade]

'''Johnny Staccato''' 
''Johnny Staccato'' is a private detective series which ran for twenty-seven episodes on NBC from 1959-1960. Title character Johnny Staccato, played by John Cassavetes (1929-1989), is a jazz pianist/private detective. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Staccato]

'''Krazy Kat''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krazy_Kat ''Krazy Kat''] was a popular comic strip that ran in newspapers from 1913 to 1944. Ignatz and Offisa Pupp are characters.

'''Steve McGarrett''' 
Detective in the TV show [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii_Five-O ''Hawaii Five-0''], important to both [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_5#Page_60 ''Vineland''] and ''Inherent Vice.''

'''"but nowadays it's all you see anymore is...fuckin cop shows"''' 
Compare with today's television being saturated with programs which typically feature forensic specialists who inexplicably have the authority to make arrests and conduct interrogations, and are still "just being regular guys, only tryin to do their job, folks, no more threat to nobody's freedom than some dad in a sitcom."

'''"Why not get a houseboat up in the Sacramento Delta--smoke, drink, fish, fuck..."''' 
It's tough not to see this as a nod to Doc's brother shamus Travis McGee, the creation of Florida writer John D. MacDonald. McGee lives on a houseboat, taking his "retirement in installments," drinking, lounging on Florida beaches, meeting and inevitably helping beautiful women out of troubles that almost always involve a sinister land broker or two. Along the way Trav usually ends up pontificating about rapacious land developers, the increasingly artificial and isolated American lifestyle, and people's loss of connection with the natural world. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_McGee]

==Page 98==
'''Sunrise was on the way''' 
Early morning, Sunday, March 29, 1970, the sixth day of the narrative, and Easter Sunday.

:March 29 doesn't ''quite'' jibe with "It was late winter in Gordita" (line 5) or, on [[#Page_102|page 102]], "the wintertime smell of crude oil..." (line 11). Spring comes sometime between the 19th to the 23rd of March, so according to Pynchon here we're sometime before March 29, yes?

[http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KLAX/1970/3/29/DailyHistory.html?req_city=Los+Angeles+International&req_state=CA&req_statename=California Here] is the weather for March 29--a pretty average day by L.A. standards.

'''[T]he engine sounds were not passing across the sky where they should have . . .''' 
An apparent allusion to the opening line of [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow'']. As a consequence of this, "everybody's dreams got disarranged," which also seems to be happening on ''GR's'' first page.

==Page 99==
'''two plastic skegs''' 
A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeg skeg] is a fin attached to rear of a surfboard.

'''Waimea''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waimea_Bay Waimea Bay], on the North Shore of Oahu in Hawaii, is one of the planet's premier big-wave surfing locations, with gigantic swells in winter. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWHHqw_OniU Video.]

'''Maverick's''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mavericks_%28location%29 Big wave] in Northern California. Trivia alert: apparently named after a dog who swam out with the first people who tried, but failed, to surf the wave. While no one was surfing this now famous wave until the mid-70s, it had been known about at least since 1961. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcioR3ElH60 Video.]

'''Todos Santos''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhQtzxGEG6Y Video] of these big waves [http://www.todossantos-baja.com/todos-santos/surfing/surf-photos.htm near Baja.]

'''riding goofyfoot''' 
This is a surfing/skateboarding term for someone who rides left-footed. So-called regular foot riders keep their left foot at the front of the board, but goofyfoot riders put their right foot at the front. More [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footedness here].

'''Doc, also up early''' 
Early morning, Sunday, March 29, 1970, the sixth day of the narrative.

'''double-cross whites''' 
[http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/streetTerms/ByType.asp?intTypeID=9 Amphetamines].

==Page 100==
'''a surfer or two who'd found and ridden other breaks [...] unphotographed and unrecorded''' 
Even though Pynchon's reference to Mavericks would seem an anachronism, as no one other than a couple surfers had even tried Mavericks until Jeff Clark began riding the gigantic break in 1975, alone, until 1990 when he convinced some other surfers to check it out, this description would seem to fit Jeff Clark perfectly, discovering and surfing, alone, some of the largest waves on the planet. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Clark Jeff Clark Wikipedia entry...] Pynchon himself, as we all know, likes to remain unphotographed.

==Page 101==
'''Surfaris laugh . . . "Hooo-oo-oo-oo---Wipeout!"''' 
[[image:surfaris-dot-decca.jpg|200px|right|thumb|caption|"Wipe Out" - Decca & Dot]][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wipe_Out_(song) "Wipe Out"] was a 1962 hit originally performed by the Surfaris. You can hear the song, including the insane laugh (provided by their producer/manager Dale Smallin) and a 2x4 being cracked in half, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UofdWQG346k here].

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 Surfaris and "Wipe Out" have a surprisingly tangled history:

:Dot records was the national distributer of "Wipe Out" and the label quickly wanted to capitalize on its success, but rather than use the Surfaris they had The Challengers do covers of other intrumental hits. The only songs that are from the Surfaris on the "Wipe Out" LP are the 2 sides of that single. After the single took off they were quickly brought in to tape an album. It was in the can 12 hours later. Only a week went by before it was out in the record bins. This was a big surprise to the Surfaris. They were even more surprised realize that aside from "Wipe Out" and "Surfer Joe" the remainder of the LP was not them! When they confronted their manager (The Laugh guy in the "Wipe Out" intro), he told them the producers had to add a few overdubs and to listen closer. The more they listened the more they doubted this story. Finally the manager admitted that union musicians had been brought in to do the songs they had recorded. When they realized they had no legal binding contract from Dot records they went off in a huff to Decca records and recorded their ''real'' debut LP, "The Surfaris Play". They were required to re-record "Wipe Out" as Dot did have the rights to it! [http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1203]

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Surfaris Wikipedia entry for the Surfaris...]

==Page 102==
[[image:Barney-Fife_bw.jpg|right|caption|thumb|125px|Barney Fife / Don Knotts]]<div id="barney">'''barney quota'''</div>
"Barney" in this context refers to the character Barney Fife from [http://www.theandygriffithshow.net/barney_fife.htm ''The Andy Griffith Show''] an American sitcom which aired on CBS from 1960-1968. Fife was an incompetent blowhard who was overly zealous as a police officer and was played by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Knotts Don Knotts] (1924-2006) [http://www.theandygriffithshow.net/barney_fife.htm More on the Barney Fife character...]

'''in the slow seep of dawn''' 
Early morning, Sunday, March 29, 1970, the sixth day of the narrative.

'''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shikantaza shikantaza]''' 
A Zen Buddhist discipline which recommends "just sitting".

==Page 103==
'''Mira Costa''' 
A [http://www.mchs.manhattan.k12.ca.us/education/school/school.php?sectionid=2 high school] in Manhattan Beach, CA.

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

==Page 105==
'''"Earth has an immune system, too...like the oil industry"''' 
Recalls Kurt Vonnegut's quote, "We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should." From [http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-september-13-2005/kurt-vonnegut his appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart].

'''Atlantis and Lemuria''' 
The mythical continent of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemuria_(continent) Lemuria] is mentioned throughout ''Inherent Vice''. Shasta Fay Hepworth's namesake, Mt. Shasta in Northern California is [http://www.lemurianconnection.com/en/about-mount-shasta.htm believed by some] to be the home of Lemuria's survivors.

'''Owsley''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owsley_Stanley Owsley Stanley.] Famous large-scale supplier of LSD.

==Page 106==
'''Doc's name then was something like Xqq''' 
Doc's name, and the dual-sun planet on which he resided, is reminiscent of Italo Calvino's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmicomics ''Cosmicomics''] (1965) which takes place billions of years ago before Earth and on an early Earth, and has characters with names such as Qfwfq and (k)yK and Lll. Each story takes a scientific "fact" (though sometimes a falsehood by today's understanding), and builds an imaginative story around it. From the dustjacket blurb:

:The narrator, Qfwfq, spends his childhood in the soundless, timeless void; among the incandescent colors of stellar explosions, he plays with hydrogen atoms like marbles and, sitting astride a galaxy, chases his friend Pfwfp around the firmament. Or, as an adolescent on the new Earth, he has his first shy love affairs with Ayl, Lll, and Mrs. Vhd Vhd...

'''osmium''' 
A chemical element that has the symbol Os and atomic number 76. Osmium is a hard, brittle, blue-gray or blue-black transition metal in the platinum family, and is the densest natural element.

'''you'll be the same size and density''' 
This discussion of Doc's "density" is reminiscent of Mondaugen's Law in [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_505-518#Page_509 ''Gravity's Rainbow'']: "Personal density [...] is directly proportional to temporal bandwidth":

:"Temporal bandwidth" is the width of your present, your ''now''. It is the familiar "delta t" considered as a dependent variable. The more you dwell in the past and in the future, the thicker your bandwidth, the more solid your persona. But the narrower your sense of Now, the more tenuous you are. It may get to where you're having trouble remembering what you were doing five minutes ago, or even as Slothrop now what you're doing ''here'', at the base of this colossal curved embankment... [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_505-518#Page_509]

Well, Doc, transported to Earth 3 billion years in the future, is certainly dwelling the future and indeed his density is very high. However, the Doc we've come to know here more closely seems to fit the description of someone with a very narrow "sense of Now."

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'''They were outside on the beach, it was nighttime''' 
Night, Sunday, March 29, 1970, the sixth day of the narrative.

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==Page 89==
'''Doc called Sancho next morning''' 
Morning, Saturday, March 28, 1970, the fifth day of the narrative.

'''Ginger . . . Skipper . . . Gilligan . . . Thurston Howell III . . . Lovey''' 
All are characters from the 1960s TV show [[G#gilligan|''Gilligan's Island'']]. The "code" would presumably be whether the aspiring actress (Ginger/Shasta) would end up with Gilligan/Doc, or whether she would end up with the rich man (Thurston Howell III/Mickey Wolfmann), who might or might not ever divorce his wife (Lovey/Sloane Wolfmann).

==Page 90==
'''Varathaned hatch-covers''' 
[http://www.rustoleum.com/CBGBrand.asp?bid=12 Varathane] is a brand of wood stains and polyurethane sealants.

'''Charlotte Amalie''' 
The largest city and capital of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Amalie,_United_States_Virgin_Islands US Virgina Islands].

'''Like new debt... from institutions in places like South Dakota that you send away for by filling out the back of match cover''' 
Sauncho's quote here echoes almost exactly Zoyd's thoughts in ''Vineland'' in regard to Isaiah Two Four's business proposition: "expecting some address in a distant state, obtained from a matchbook cover." (p. 19, ''Vineland'')

==Page 91==
'''Thomas Arnould''' 
An error. Should be [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Arnould "Joseph Arnould"], who wrote ''Law of Marine Insurance'' (1848).

'''Theophilus Parsons''' 
There were two men ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theophilus_Parsons father] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theophilus_Parsons_(professor) son]) named Theopilus Parsons in the nineteenth century. This reference is to the younger one, who published A Treatise on the Law of Marine Insurance and General Average in 1868.

==Page 92==
'''Your stomach isn't it.''' 
A listless way of saying "It's your stomach, so feel free to order whatever horrible food you desire."

'''L'il buddy''' 
Another reference to ''Gilligan's Island''. "L'il buddy" was the captain's nickname for Gilligan. See [[#Page 89|page 89]] for another instance of Doc being linked to Gilligan.

Also, Hector calls Zoyd this in ''Vineland'', see p. 26. The contraction is spelled li'l in ''Vineland'' but l'il in ''Inherent Vice''. The former is technically correct, since the elision (the "tt") is after the "i" rather than before it.

'''Eel Trovatore''' 
A perhaps obvious pun on Il Trovatore, the Verdi opera.

'''Burke Stodger''' 
This name is likely derived from a 1910 ''noir''-ish murder-mystery novel ''Paternoster Ruby'' by Charles Edmonds Walk. Alexander Stilwell Burke and Stodger, a plain-clothes cop, are two main characters. [http://books.google.com/books?id=kd54UWt8QC0C&dq=paternoster+ruby+charles+edmonds+walk&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=mfkqjKBGj4&sig=KGhSLPxiRPQqvVPLhOQ5WNEzSE8&hl=en&ei=mfBrStfrF4uAsgPltqmWBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1 Google Books] Perhaps Pynchon's slyly recycling here some unused stuff from his vast research for ''Against the Day''? A excerpt from Walk's novel:

:"Nasty case," Stodger was imparting, in queer staccato sentences. "Shouldn't have much difficulty, though; responsibility lies between two men. Here all last night. Nobody else. Callahan and O'Brien holdin' 'em. One 's Page's private secretary; fellow named Burke Alexander Stilwell Burke. Peach of a monicker, ain't it? Has all three sections on his cards.

:[...]

:Suddenly she snuggled closer and clasped her hands tightly upon my shoulder. Her hair teased my cheek, and the delicate perfume of it made me light-headed. Twisting her pretty head sideways, she flashed an arch look at me from under her lashes, then glanced quickly away again. Blue eyes and long dark lashes are a potently disturbing combination.

:"Well," she sighed, "the Page case may have cost you a fortune, but it gave you ''me''. And ''I'' for one am very content and happy, Mr. Swift."

==Page 93==
'''a three-hour tour''' 
Yet another reference to ''Gilligan's Island''. This is a quote from the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qycmb7_LvsA theme song].

==Page 95==
'''"deep interrogation"''' 
Well, it ''could'' be a reference to throwing folks into the deep blue sea. However, in the 1970s, long before Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib and "enhanced interrogation," Britain utilized “deep interrogation” techniques in an effort to defeat the Irish Republican Army. ''Constitutions in Crisis: Political Violence and the Rule of Law'' by John E. Finn (Oxford University Press, 1990) examines how the efforts of two western liberal democracies, the United Kingdom and the Federal Republic of Germany, to cope with domestic terrorism threatens their constitutional integrity. Finn argues first that widespread political violence challenges the presuppositions of constitutional authority in any liberal democracy, namely that reason and deliberation, and not passion or will, can be the basis of political community. He defines "deep interrogation":

:"Deep interrogation" a bureaucratic phrase which takes the place of the simpler word "torture" and is worth of Orwell's ''1984'' is on a different level of immorality than hysterical sadism or the indiscriminate bomb of urban guerrillas. It is something organised with imagination and a knowledge of psychology, calculated and cold blooded ... [http://books.google.com/books?id=3s3ZGy0RAK4C&pg=PA69&lpg=PA69&dq=%22deep+interrogation%22+-pynchon&source=bl&ots=sfcbvQr90m&sig=iRr8MpNtWD3Cax-7bqlAwyigsvE&hl=en&ei=JFfZSsr-IIL8sgPgsKGNBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CBMQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22deep%20interrogation%22%20-pynchon&f=false] ([http://www.amazon.com/Constitutions-Crisis-Political-Violence-Rule/dp/0195057384/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255758301&sr=1-1 Buy it...])

==Page 96==
[[image:zuckys.jpg|right|150px|thumb|caption|Zucky's Delicatessen]]'''Zucky's''' 
Pronounced zoo'-keys, Zucky's was run by Zucky and Hy Altman, founders of the SOVA food pantries, and frequented by such celebrities as Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger - who would meet there for breakfast every morning before continuing on to the gym, back in the day. Closed since 1993, it was located at the corner of Wilshire and 5th Street, in Santa Monica. It was one of the few places open after 10pm in Santa Monica.

'''''Marcus Welby, M.D.''''' 
Hour long medical drama that aired on ABC from '69-'76. Took place in Santa Monica and ranked first in Nielsens for the year 1970. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRmhb7mhiB4 View the opening credits] where Zucky's sign appears on the left side at :08 in.

'''what Cheech and Chong might call matzo-ball jones?''' 
Punned reference to "Basketball Jones", song on Cheech and Chong "Los Cochinos" album with release date 1973.

==Page 97==
'''Philip Marlowe''' 
Raymond Chandler's famous detective, featured in Chandler's many novels set in LA, including ''The Big Sleep'' (1939; his first appearance), ''Farewell My Lovely'', and ''The Long Goodbye''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Marlowe] There are many important parallels between Pynchon's Doc and Chandler's Marlowe, especially his world-weariness, his fondness for certain drugs of choice, and a penchant for cracking wise and getting beaten up and worse. (John D. MacDonald's fictional detective Travis McGee is also an important predecessor; see below). Of all Chandler's fiction, ''Farewell My Lovely'' (1940), which many think is Chandler's best, may be most relevant for the plot and themes of ''Inherent Vice''. For instance, in that novel Marlowe stays in a hotel in Venice Beach before going out to Laird Brunette's offshore gambling boat, the ''Montecino''. ''Farewell My Lovely'' also has "rehab" centers that serve as a front for torture and murder; characters with hidden identities; an impossibly convoluted plot; and a literary style that features striking metaphors, similes, and literary allusions. Marlowe is, like Doc, a dark mixture of cynicism, doggedness, and indifference--yet his goodness and inherent virtues can't be killed. To trace the parallels with Chandler's Marlowe, though, is to see how fully Pynchon has transformed and deepened the generic conventions of 1930s and '40s detective fiction (and film noir inspired by it) even as he pays homage to these.

'''Sam Spade''' 
Dashiell Hammett's detective in ''The Maltese Falcon'' (1930) and other crime fiction; in John Huston's famous film based on the novel, he's played by Humphrey Bogart. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Spade]

'''Johnny Staccato''' 
''Johnny Staccato'' is a private detective series which ran for twenty-seven episodes on NBC from 1959-1960. Title character Johnny Staccato, played by John Cassavetes (1929-1989), is a jazz pianist/private detective. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Staccato]

'''Krazy Kat''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krazy_Kat ''Krazy Kat''] was a popular comic strip that ran in newspapers from 1913 to 1944. Ignatz and Offisa Pupp are characters.

'''Steve McGarrett''' 
Detective in the TV show [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii_Five-O ''Hawaii Five-0''], important to both [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_5#Page_60 ''Vineland''] and ''Inherent Vice.''

'''"Why not get a houseboat up in the Sacramento Delta--smoke, drink, fish, fuck..."''' 
It's tough not to see this as a nod to Doc's brother shamus Travis McGee, the creation of Florida writer John D. MacDonald. McGee lives on a houseboat, taking his "retirement in installments," drinking, lounging on Florida beaches, meeting and inevitably helping beautiful women out of troubles that almost always involve a sinister land broker or two. Along the way Trav usually ends up pontificating about rapacious land developers, the increasingly artificial and isolated American lifestyle, and people's loss of connection with the natural world. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_McGee]

==Page 98==
'''Sunrise was on the way''' 
Early morning, Sunday, March 29, 1970, the sixth day of the narrative, and Easter Sunday.

:March 29 doesn't ''quite'' jibe with "It was late winter in Gordita" (line 5) or, on [[#Page_102|page 102]], "the wintertime smell of crude oil..." (line 11). Spring comes sometime between the 19th to the 23rd of March, so according to Pynchon here we're sometime before March 29, yes?

[http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KLAX/1970/3/29/DailyHistory.html?req_city=Los+Angeles+International&req_state=CA&req_statename=California Here] is the weather for March 29--a pretty average day by L.A. standards.

'''[T]he engine sounds were not passing across the sky where they should have . . .''' 
An apparent allusion to the opening line of [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow'']. As a consequence of this, "everybody's dreams got disarranged," which also seems to be happening on ''GR's'' first page.

==Page 99==
'''two plastic skegs''' 
A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeg skeg] is a fin attached to rear of a surfboard.

'''Waimea''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waimea_Bay Waimea Bay], on the North Shore of Oahu in Hawaii, is one of the planet's premier big-wave surfing locations, with gigantic swells in winter. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWHHqw_OniU Video.]

'''Maverick's''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mavericks_%28location%29 Big wave] in Northern California. Trivia alert: apparently named after a dog who swam out with the first people who tried, but failed, to surf the wave. While no one was surfing this now famous wave until the mid-70s, it had been known about at least since 1961. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcioR3ElH60 Video.]

'''Todos Santos''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhQtzxGEG6Y Video] of these big waves [http://www.todossantos-baja.com/todos-santos/surfing/surf-photos.htm near Baja.]

'''riding goofyfoot''' 
This is a surfing/skateboarding term for someone who rides left-footed. So-called regular foot riders keep their left foot at the front of the board, but goofyfoot riders put their right foot at the front. More [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footedness here].

'''Doc, also up early''' 
Early morning, Sunday, March 29, 1970, the sixth day of the narrative.

'''double-cross whites''' 
[http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/streetTerms/ByType.asp?intTypeID=9 Amphetamines].

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'''a surfer or two who'd found and ridden other breaks [...] unphotographed and unrecorded''' 
Even though Pynchon's reference to Mavericks would seem an anachronism, as no one other than a couple surfers had even tried Mavericks until Jeff Clark began riding the gigantic break in 1975, alone, until 1990 when he convinced some other surfers to check it out, this description would seem to fit Jeff Clark perfectly, discovering and surfing, alone, some of the largest waves on the planet. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Clark Jeff Clark Wikipedia entry...] Pynchon himself, as we all know, likes to remain unphotographed.

==Page 101==
'''Surfaris laugh . . . "Hooo-oo-oo-oo---Wipeout!"''' 
[[image:surfaris-dot-decca.jpg|200px|right|thumb|caption|"Wipe Out" - Decca & Dot]][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wipe_Out_(song) "Wipe Out"] was a 1962 hit originally performed by the Surfaris. You can hear the song, including the insane laugh (provided by their producer/manager Dale Smallin) and a 2x4 being cracked in half, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UofdWQG346k here].

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 Surfaris and "Wipe Out" have a surprisingly tangled history:

:Dot records was the national distributer of "Wipe Out" and the label quickly wanted to capitalize on its success, but rather than use the Surfaris they had The Challengers do covers of other intrumental hits. The only songs that are from the Surfaris on the "Wipe Out" LP are the 2 sides of that single. After the single took off they were quickly brought in to tape an album. It was in the can 12 hours later. Only a week went by before it was out in the record bins. This was a big surprise to the Surfaris. They were even more surprised realize that aside from "Wipe Out" and "Surfer Joe" the remainder of the LP was not them! When they confronted their manager (The Laugh guy in the "Wipe Out" intro), he told them the producers had to add a few overdubs and to listen closer. The more they listened the more they doubted this story. Finally the manager admitted that union musicians had been brought in to do the songs they had recorded. When they realized they had no legal binding contract from Dot records they went off in a huff to Decca records and recorded their ''real'' debut LP, "The Surfaris Play". They were required to re-record "Wipe Out" as Dot did have the rights to it! [http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1203]

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Surfaris Wikipedia entry for the Surfaris...]

==Page 102==
[[image:Barney-Fife_bw.jpg|right|caption|thumb|125px|Barney Fife / Don Knotts]]<div id="barney">'''barney quota'''</div>
"Barney" in this context refers to the character Barney Fife from [http://www.theandygriffithshow.net/barney_fife.htm ''The Andy Griffith Show''] an American sitcom which aired on CBS from 1960-1968. Fife was an incompetent blowhard who was overly zealous as a police officer and was played by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Knotts Don Knotts] (1924-2006) [http://www.theandygriffithshow.net/barney_fife.htm More on the Barney Fife character...]

'''in the slow seep of dawn''' 
Early morning, Sunday, March 29, 1970, the sixth day of the narrative.

'''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shikantaza shikantaza]''' 
A Zen Buddhist discipline which recommends "just sitting".

==Page 103==
'''Mira Costa''' 
A [http://www.mchs.manhattan.k12.ca.us/education/school/school.php?sectionid=2 high school] in Manhattan Beach, CA.

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

==Page 105==
'''"Earth has an immune system, too...like the oil industry"''' 
Recalls Kurt Vonnegut's quote, "We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should." From his appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-september-13-2005/kurt-vonnegut

'''Atlantis and Lemuria''' 
The mythical continent of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemuria_(continent) Lemuria] is mentioned throughout ''Inherent Vice''. Shasta Fay Hepworth's namesake, Mt. Shasta in Northern California is [http://www.lemurianconnection.com/en/about-mount-shasta.htm believed by some] to be the home of Lemuria's survivors.

'''Owsley''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owsley_Stanley Owsley Stanley.] Famous large scale supplier of LSD.

==Page 106==
'''Doc's name then was something like Xqq''' 
Doc's name, and the dual-sun planet on which he resided, is reminiscent of Italo Calvino's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmicomics ''Cosmicomics''] (1965) which takes place billions of years ago before Earth and on an early Earth, and has characters with names such as Qfwfq and (k)yK and Lll. Each story takes a scientific "fact" (though sometimes a falsehood by today's understanding), and builds an imaginative story around it. From the dustjacket blurb:

:The narrator, Qfwfq, spends his childhood in the soundless, timeless void; among the incandescent colors of stellar explosions, he plays with hydrogen atoms like marbles and, sitting astride a galaxy, chases his friend Pfwfp around the firmament. Or, as an adolescent on the new Earth, he has his first shy love affairs with Ayl, Lll, and Mrs. Vhd Vhd...

'''osmium''' 
A chemical element that has the symbol Os and atomic number 76. Osmium is a hard, brittle, blue-gray or blue-black transition metal in the platinum family, and is the densest natural element.

'''you'll be the same size and density''' 
This discussion of Doc's "density" is reminiscent of Mondaugen's Law in [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_505-518#Page_509 ''Gravity's Rainbow'']: "Personal density [...] is directly proportional to temporal bandwidth":

:"Temporal bandwidth" is the width of your present, your ''now''. It is the familiar "delta t" considered as a dependent variable. The more you dwell in the past and in the future, the thicker your bandwidth, the more solid your persona. But the narrower your sense of Now, the more tenuous you are. It may get to where you're having trouble remembering what you were doing five minutes ago, or even as Slothrop now what you're doing ''here'', at the base of this colossal curved embankment... [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_505-518#Page_509]

Well, Doc, transported to Earth 3 billion years in the future, is certainly dwelling the future and indeed his density is very high. However, the Doc we've come to know here more closely seems to fit the description of someone with a very narrow "sense of Now."

==Page 110==
'''They were outside on the beach, it was nighttime''' 
Night, Sunday, March 29, 1970, the sixth day of the narrative.

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==Page 68==
'''A lunch date had just happened to cancel''' 
Afternoon, Friday, March 27, 1970, the fourth day of the narrative, and Good Friday.

'''Nickel''' 
"He showed up at a peculiar skid-row eatery off Temple where wine abusers up from bedrolls in vacent lots back of what remained of the old Nickel." The part of downtown centered around '''5th Street''' is Los Angeles’ Skid Row and has long been referred to by locals and detectives in noir novels as "The Nickel." While downtown Los Angeles has gone through a revitalization in recent years, it has mostly skipped over the Skid Row neighborhood. Listen to Tom Waits' wino lullaby [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sILtO6LAEq8 "On The Nickel."] "...off the nikel..." page 320. "Plastic Nickel" page 293.

'''eighty-five-cent mickeys''' 
A [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mickey mickey] is a half-pint (375ml) bottle of liquor.

'''I just heard she skipped''' 
Doc heard it the day before from Bigfoot, on page 34.

==Page 69==
'''Never trust a flatland chick''' 
Could be a reference to ''Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions'' (1884) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland], a satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott. In the chapter "Concerning the Women" ([http://abbott.thefreelibrary.com/Flatland/1-5 full text available here]):

:"If our highly pointed Triangles of the Soldier class are formidable, it may be readily inferred that far more formidable are our Women. For if a Soldier is a wedge, a Woman is a needle; being, so to speak, ALL point, at least at the two extremities. Add to this the power of making herself practically invisible at will, and you will perceive that a Female, in Flatland, is a creature by no means to be trifled with."

:"Obviously then a Woman is not to be irritated as long as she is in a position where she can turn round. When you have them in their apartments which are constructed with a view to denying them that power you can say and do what you like; for they are then wholly impotent for mischief, and will not remember a few minutes hence the incident for which they may be at this moment threatening you with death, nor the promises which you may have found it necessary to make in order to pacify their fury."

'''prime directive of life at the beach''' 
"Prime Directive" is a central phrase in the Star Trek universe. It was a rule intended to restrict the actions of Starfleet's officers. It was frequently violated. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_directive Wikipedia]

==Page 70==
'''DDA game''' 
Deputy District Attorney (Penny Kimball)

==Page 71==
'''stewardii''' 
In the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjWKPdDk0_U Pynchon-narrated promo video for ''Inherent Vice''], Pynchon sez:

:"stewardesses or, more correctly I guess, stewardii"

The comedian [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelley_Berman Shelley Berman] (b. 1926), in his 1960s nightclub act, puzzled over "incongruities in the English language":

:"I just want to say just a few words about stewardii. They have... (he is interrupted by crowd shreik of laughter) Stewardii is plural for Stewardess. Uh...I think there are many incongruities in the English language as far as plurals are concerned. For example, it seems to me that the plural for Yo-yo should be Yo-yi. How about, one sheriff; several sheriffim. Um...one goof; a group of geef; uh...one Kleenex, several Kleenices; one Blouse, two Blice ........Two Jackii."

This could very well be the source for Pynchon's use of "stewardii".

The joke is based on a misconception of Latin plurals: if stewardess was spelt "stewardus", the plural would be "stewardi". It is only nouns ending in "ius" which are pluralized "-ii", eg radius/radii.

'''after nightfall [...] they ended up cruising''' 
Remember, Lourdes and Motella are, in criminal parlance, "dewdrops" night pleasure seekers as the character Jade will be described on [[#Page_82|p. 82]] of this chapter.

'''seeking out of some helpless fatality the company of lowlifes of opportunity''' 
A clearer punctuation of this would be "Seeking, out of some helpless fatality, the company of lowlifes of opportunity." The phrase "helpless fatality" is commonly used to describe a condition where one has no influence, to which one is fated. Lourdes and Motella, even with all their offshore bank accounts and extravagant lifestyle, are helpless in resisting the urge to cruise "the bleak arterials of dismal L.A. backwaters" for lowlifes (eg Cookie and Joaquin) who will take advantage of L & M's goodies, material and carnal.

In [[Chapter_1#Page_6|Chapter 1]], "fatality" is used to describe Aunt Reet's ex-husband who had "a fatality for the restless homemakers one meets in bars." And, on [[Chapter_12#Page_203|p. 203]], Bigfoot's "fatality [...] for introducing disaster into every life" he touches. And, on [[Chapter_13#Page_223|p. 223]], Puck, gazing at Trillium's ass "in a kind of morose fatality" and, finally, on [[Chapter_18#Page 318|p. 318]], Dr. Blatnoyd's "fatality for rogue profit-sharing activities."

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

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

Krishna, the fry cook: could this be the same Krishna who shows up in [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Vineland''] as the sound man for 24 fps?

'''a demonstration against NBC's plans to cancel Star Trek''' 
Here we find out that Doc is a Star Trek fan. See [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_6#Page_69 page 69].

==Page 74==
'''pretended to explain''' 
As Hope Harlingen "pretended to explain" about her teeth on page 36.

'''Kahuna Airlines''' 
Airline made famous in Pynchon's [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Vineland''], "a non-sked flying out of LAX’s East Imperial Terminal to Hawaii" ([http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_5#Page_56 p.56]).

'''COINTELPRO''' 
The FBI's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO Counter Intelligence Program]

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

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

'''...the Director...spade penises...''' 
Long time FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, now famous for his paranoia and closeted homosexuality.

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

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

'''Coming out of work later in the day''' 
Afternoon, Friday, March 27, 1970, the fourth day of the narrative.

==Page 77==
'''I'm working weeknights at Club Asiatique''' 
Afternoon, Friday, March 27, 1970, the fourth day of the narrative. Doc sees Jade this night at Club Asiatique, still nominally a weeknight.

'''before he's slipped, as Jim Morrison might put it, "into unconsciousness"...''' 
lyrics from "The Crystal Ship" by The Doors: "Before you slip into unconsciousness / I'd like to have another kiss." The song was on the Doors' first album, The Doors, released in January 1967. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WW9T6mRkQA Have a listen on YouTube...]

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

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

'''Motella gave him a skeptical O-O''' 
Once over.

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

==Page 78==
'''"'Photo courtesy of NASA!'"''' 
At this time, less than a year after the first moon landing (July, 1969) everybody was very familiar with photographs of the (pock-marked, cratered) surface of the moon.

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

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

The Beach Boys song was co-written with KHJ DJ [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Christian_(songwriter) Roger Christian] (1934-1991), who was likely the source of the car terminology. Christian's other Brian Wilson collaborations included "Don't Worry Baby", "Little Deuce Coupe" and "In the Parkin' Lot" and he co-wrote, for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_and_Dean Jan and Dean], "Dead Man's Curve", "The Little Old Lady from Pasadena", "Sidewalk Surfin", "Drag City" and "Honolulu Lulu."

[[File:1966GTO.jpg|thumb|right|1966 Pontiac GTO (Gran Turismo Omologato)]]'''GTO''' 
The Pontiac GTO (Gran Turismo Omologato) is an automobile built by Pontiac in the United States from 1964 to 1974, and is often considered the first true muscle car. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontiac_GTO Wikipedia...]
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==Page 79==
'''A toda madre!''' 
from Urban Dictionary:
Mexican slang that means something is totally awesome. Often abbreviated, especially in graffiti, as ATM.

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''sauntering in in step''' 
A cute double preposition. Cookie and Joaquin enter the club doing the dance move called [http://www.streetswing.com/histmain/z3truck.htm "truckin'"], which enjoyed a brief revival in the sixties and seventies after Robert Crumb published his popular [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_on_Truckin'_(comics) "Keep On Truckin'"] drawing.

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

'''Asian dewdrop''' 
A dewdrop or dew-drop is a night pleasure seeker, in criminal slang. Source: ''Criminal slang: the vernacular of the underground lingo'' by Vincent Joseph Monteleone [http://books.google.com/books?id=nN81uyN8WmIC&pg=PA68&lpg=PA68&dq=slang+%2B+%22dew+drop%22&source=bl&ots=8J6r0X_EiL&sig=Ht_7U1ag4dbs0YM6Tc9dIuInDto&hl=en&ei=3mPNSsT2GYHssQO46fGhBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7#v=onepage&q=&f=false]

'''''abuelita''''' 
Spanish: grandmother

'''South Pas''' 
South Pasadena, Los Angeles County

==Page 83==
'''''dan'' ranking''' 
The ''dan'' ranking system is a Japanese mark of level is used in martial arts (and also traditional fine arts, including mastery of the board game, Go). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_%28rank%29 Wikipedia entry]

'''wallerin in eye contact''' 
Phonetic spelling of "wallowing" (pleasantly indulging in), as in a sort of hillbilly or rural-Southern accent. [http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewarticle.asp?id=41517 This article] goes into more detail. An excerpt:

:For those unfamiliar with southern U.S. parlance, the English verb “wallow” is many times pronounced as “waller” in areas of The Southeast, especially rural areas. According to Dictionary.com, the verb “wallow” means “to roll about or lie in water, snow, mud, dust, or the like, as for refreshment." [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/wallow]

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

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'''The nearly total absence of lighting''' 
Night, Friday, March 27, 1970, the fourth day of the narrative.

==Page 84==
'''gathering pinks as it came''' 
Car slang referring to cars racing for pink slips (the winner wins the loser's car and, thus, obtains the loser's registration slip - which in Calif is pink in color). So, in Pynchon's context, the '56 "Fireflite ragtop" was exhausted (so to speak!) from racing all the way down, and gathering the pink slips (vehicle ownerships) of racing opponents whom it'd beaten along the way.

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

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'''ear trumpet [http://www.phisick.com/a7et30.htm]''' 
An old-fashioned hearing aid, shaped like a funnel to direct sound to the eardrum.
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