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==Page 315==
'''bindlestiffs''' 
Pynchon may just be using the word in with its basic literal meaning (hoboes), but it is also the name ("Bindlestiffs of the Blue A.C.") of a "club of ascensionaries from Oregon," referred to in Against the Day at page 18 and again at page 1083.

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 329==
''''59 Cadillac hearse'''
[[File:59CadillacHearse.jpg|thumb|left|[http://www.tristatechapter.com/meet.htm photo] courtesy Mark & Debbie Teague]]
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==Page 315==
'''bindlestiffs''' 
Pynchon may just be using the word in with its basic literal meaning (hoboes), but it is also the name ("Bindlestiffs of the Blue A.C.") of a "club of ascensionaries from Oregon," referred to in Against the Day at page 18 and again at page 1083.

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 329==
''''59 Cadillac hearse'''
[[File:59CadillacHearse.jpg|thumb|left|[http://www.tristatechapter.com/meet.htm photo] courtesy Mark & Debbie Teague]]
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Chapter 18

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==Page 315==
'''bindlestiffs''' 
Pynchon may just be using the word in with its basic literal meaning (hoboes), but it is also the name ("Bindlestiffs of the Blue A.C.") of a "club of ascensionaries from Oregon," referred to in Against the Day at page 18 and again at page 1083.

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 329==
''''59 Cadillac hearse'''
[[File:59CadillacHearse.jpg|thumb|left|[http://www.tristatechapter.com/meet.htm photo] courtesy Mark & Debbie Teague]]
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==Page 315==
'''bindlestiffs''' 
Pynchon may just be using the word in with its basic literal meaning (hoboes), but it is also the name ("Bindlestiffs of the Blue A.C.") of a "club of ascensionaries from Oregon," referred to in Against the Day at page 18 and again at page 1083.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Chapter 1

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

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

More info at [[Inherent Vice cover analysis]]

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

==Epigraph==

'''Under the paving-stones, the beach!''' 
"Sous les pavés, la plage" - slogan dating from the 1968 Paris student riots. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_1968_in_France Wikipedia] Literally, it refers to the paving stones thrown at the police. Figuratively, it refers to the ideal life to be found beneath the confines of society.

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

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

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

However, more to the point, "Shasta" is name-connected to Mt. Shasta, long believed by some to be where the Lemurians came after Lemuria sunk into the sea. They also believe in the presence of Bigfoot here, as well as wolfmen. See [http://www.lemurianconnection.com/en/about-mount-shasta.htm Mt. Shasta and the Lemurian Connection]. Located near the northern end of California, Pynchon would likely have been familiar with this mythology.

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

'''They stood in the street light through the kitchen window there'd never been much point in putting curtains over and listened to the thumping of the surf from down the hill. Some nights, when the wind was right, you could hear the surf all over town.''' 

Like [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Vineland''], and http://gravitysrainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/''Gravity's Rainbow''], here a Pynchon book begins with light coming through a window. Also like ''Vineland'', the sentence structure and rhythm is just slightly jarring - that '...in the street light through the kitchen window...' seeming to echo ''Vineland'': "Later than usual one summer morning in 1984, Zoyd Wheeler drifted awake in sunlight through a creeping fig that hung in the window, with a squadron of blue jays stomping around on the roof." In both cases, it's just a little odd that Pynchon doesn't refer to the light 'that shone' through the window. And that creeping fig makes an appearance on [[Chapter_2#Page_36|page 33]] of ''Inherent Vice''.

==Page 3==
'''Hancock Park''' 
Just south of Hollywood, and one of the most desirable locations in Los Angeles. Hancock Park was developed by the Hancock family and is named after developer-philanthropist G. Allan Hancock, with profits earned from oil drilling in the former Rancho La Brea, home of the famous tar pits. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hancock_Park,_Los_Angeles,_California Wikipedia]

'''Can't Buy Me Love''' 
This well-known Beatles hit has a curious connection with two other Beatles tunes touched on in ''The Crying of Lot 49''. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

*MAD Magazine-style substitution pun in the name, Gordita Beach: from the Manhattan, an open-faced hot sandwich made with meat and gravy, to the Gordita, a thick tortilla stuffed with meat stew.

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

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

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

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

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

[http://www.webreference.com/graphics/column41/2.html Channel View] is an image manipulation option in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoshop Adobe Photoshop], whereby a raster graphic is split into its constituent RGB or CMYK color values (or channels) to allow for individual, fine adjustments to the distribution of any of the graphic's 3 (or 4) basic colors. Channels and channel masks are also useful for creating composite images and transparency effects in Photoshop.

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

==Page 9==
'''Freak Power''' 
Hunter S. Thompson ran unsuccessfully for mayor and sheriff of Aspen, Colorado in 1969 and 1970. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_of_Aspen Wikipedia] Unsure if "freak power" was a term Thompson coined?

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

'''Zody''' 
An anagram for Zoyd, one of the main characters in ''Vineland''.

'''Cal Worthington''' 

If Used-Car dealer Cal Worthington didn't exist, someone would have to invent him. Famous for his TV ads throughout California and his dog "Spot" [usually an exotic animal] the many parodies of Cal never exceed his own bizarre ads. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOsLdT4slsk YouTube]

==Page 10==
'''Godzilla''' 
Pynchon apparently wrote a letter to his editor, Cork Smith, in the 1960s saying that he was working on two books: one on Mason & Dixon, and one loosely inspired by Godzilla. See [http://cl49.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_3 Crying of Lot 49 Chapter 3]] & [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_9#Page_142 Vineland, page 142]. wa

it was recounted by the author to his friends that to continue to collect royalties he had to come up with the sentence from his next book. the sentence was something like "Hiro stood in the wreckage of what was once downtown Tokyo and as he looked down at the giant footprint he explained to the insurance adjusters in his Japanese accent'clearly reptilian." [This anecdote is spurious at best. Is there a source for this? Any evidence?]

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

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

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

==Page 11==
'''Sad but true, as Dion always sez.''' 
"Runaround Sue" ("Here's my story, it's sad but true...") was a 1961 hit for Dion DiMucci (b. 1939). Dion only said it once, but then again he "said" it everytime the song was played. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c49klxPex-k Have a listen on YouTube...]
At Playa Vista High Shasta was beauty queen four years running...Mira Costa High is the HS in
Manhattan Beach

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

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

==Page 12==
'''wasn't that they were fucking, exactly, but it was something like that.''' 
This sentence structure is a Pynchon trademark found throughout his works: "not X, exactly, but Y..." For instance, ''Gravity's Rainbow'', pg 137: "...you begin to wait for something terrible-- not exactly an air raid but something close to that."; ''Gravity's Rainbow'', pg 580: "Not as an enterprise, exactly, but at least in the dance of things."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Sledge Poteet''' 
Sledge Poteet was a member of the film collective 24fps from [[Vineland]]. He shared, along with ninjette DL Chastain, "a fondness for enlightenment through asskicking."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 261==
'''Shoot the Pier''' 
In surfing, to "shoot the pier" is to ride a surfboard in between the pilings of a pier.

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

==Page 266==
'''You know how many musicians have been overdosing in recent years''' 
Brian Jones (July 1969), Jimi Hendrix (Sept. 1970), Janis Joplin (Oct. 1970), Jim Morrison (July 1971) . . .

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

==Page 270==
'''Swedish Fish''' 
See [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_3#Page_49 note for page 49].

==Page 271==
'''Eleventh Commandment''' 
See [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_3#Page_48 note for page 48].

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

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

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

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'''Code 7''' 
Meal break.

'''Cielo Drive''' 
Site of the Mason family murders. More [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10050_Cielo_Drive here].

==Page 211==
'''Evelyn Wood''' 
Developed a system for speed reading. More [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Wood_(teacher) here].

'''Fontana''' 
A city in San Bernardino County, roughly 50 miles east of Los Angeles.

'''Puck's file could be in storage...someplace like Fontana....''' 

Possibly an oblique reference to '''The Big Sleep.''' Art Huck's chop shop where Eddie Mars' wife is hiding out is located a mile beyond Realito (Rialto). Fontana is adjacent to Rialto in San Bernadino County.

==Page 212==
'''"Chotto, Kenichiro! Dozo, motto panukeiku."''' 
Hey, Ken! Please, more pancakes. (''Pannukakku'': Finnish Oven Baked Pancake)

==Page 218==
''''69 Camaro''' 
a bright red '69 Camaro
[[File:1969_red_Camaro.jpg|thumb|left|1969 Camaro [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1969_red_Chevrolet_Camaro_SS_side.JPG © BrokenSphere / Wikimedia Commons ]]] 
 

==Page 219==
'''mug ... intended to keep the mustache of the drinker from getting soaked ... belonged to Marshal Earp''' 
Perhaps only a bizarre coincidence, but a colleague who worked with Pynchon at Boeing in the early '60s, speaking in 1990, described Pynchon as having sported a [http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19900114&slug=1050692 "kind of Wyatt Earp-type handlebar mustache."]

==Page 223==
[[File:1962Bonneville.jpg|thumb|right|1962 Bonneville, photo by [http://www.flickr.com/photos/jacksnell707/3212233895/in/set-72157608598376503/ Jack Snell / Creative Commons]]]
''''62 Bonneville''' a stolen '62 Bonneville parked in a cul-de-sac off Sunset

==Page 225==
'''Ernest Tubb, Jim Reeves, and Webb Pierce''' 
aka, old school country music.

'''John Garfield'''
John Garfield (March 4, 1913 – May 21, 1952) was an American actor. Garfield was especially adept at playing brooding, rebellious, working-class character roles. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Garfield]

==Page 228==
'''Wild Bill Hickok's last poker hand''' 
Maybe the most (in)famous hand in poker history. When Hickok was shot dead in 1876, he was playing poker and holding two pair: aces and eights. Since then, that hand has been called [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_man%27s_hand "Dead Man's Hand"].

==Page 233==
'''Dietz & Schwartz, ''Haunted Heart''''' 

:In the night, 
:though we're apart 
:there's a ghost of you 
:within my haunted heart . . . 

:Ghost of you, 
:my last romance, 
:lips that laughed, 
:eyes that danced . . . 

:Haunted heart 
:won't let me be 
:dreams repeat a sweet 
:but lonely song to me . . . 

:Dreams are dust, 
:it's you who must 
:belong to me . . . 
:and thrill my haunted heart . . . 

:Be still, my haunted heart . . . 

:< instrumental break > 

:Dreams are dust, 
:it's you who must 
:belong to me . . . 
:and thrill my haunted heart . . . 

:Be still, my haunted heart . . . 

--from the musical production ''Inside U.S.A.''
Music by Arthur Schwartz
with lyrics by Howard Dietz, 1948

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'''Code 7''' 
Meal break.

'''Cielo Drive''' 
Site of the Mason family murders. More [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10050_Cielo_Drive here].

==Page 211==
'''Evelyn Wood''' 
Developed a system for speed reading. More [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Wood_(teacher) here].

'''Fontana''' 
A city in San Bernardino County, roughly 50 miles east of Los Angeles.

'''Puck's file could be in storage...someplace like Fontana....''' 

Possibly an oblique reference to '''The Big Sleep.''' Art Huck's chop shop where Eddie Mars' wife is hiding out is located a mile beyond Realito (Rialto). Fontana is adjacent to Rialto.

==Page 212==
'''"Chotto, Kenichiro! Dozo, motto panukeiku."''' 
Hey, Ken! Please, more pancakes. (''Pannukakku'': Finnish Oven Baked Pancake)

==Page 218==
''''69 Camaro''' 
a bright red '69 Camaro
[[File:1969_red_Camaro.jpg|thumb|left|1969 Camaro [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1969_red_Chevrolet_Camaro_SS_side.JPG © BrokenSphere / Wikimedia Commons ]]] 
 

==Page 219==
'''mug ... intended to keep the mustache of the drinker from getting soaked ... belonged to Marshal Earp''' 
Perhaps only a bizarre coincidence, but a colleague who worked with Pynchon at Boeing in the early '60s, speaking in 1990, described Pynchon as having sported a [http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19900114&slug=1050692 "kind of Wyatt Earp-type handlebar mustache."]

==Page 223==
[[File:1962Bonneville.jpg|thumb|right|1962 Bonneville, photo by [http://www.flickr.com/photos/jacksnell707/3212233895/in/set-72157608598376503/ Jack Snell / Creative Commons]]]
''''62 Bonneville''' a stolen '62 Bonneville parked in a cul-de-sac off Sunset

==Page 225==
'''Ernest Tubb, Jim Reeves, and Webb Pierce''' 
aka, old school country music.

'''John Garfield'''
John Garfield (March 4, 1913 – May 21, 1952) was an American actor. Garfield was especially adept at playing brooding, rebellious, working-class character roles. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Garfield]

==Page 228==
'''Wild Bill Hickok's last poker hand''' 
Maybe the most (in)famous hand in poker history. When Hickok was shot dead in 1876, he was playing poker and holding two pair: aces and eights. Since then, that hand has been called [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_man%27s_hand "Dead Man's Hand"].

==Page 233==
'''Dietz & Schwartz, ''Haunted Heart''''' 

:In the night, 
:though we're apart 
:there's a ghost of you 
:within my haunted heart . . . 

:Ghost of you, 
:my last romance, 
:lips that laughed, 
:eyes that danced . . . 

:Haunted heart 
:won't let me be 
:dreams repeat a sweet 
:but lonely song to me . . . 

:Dreams are dust, 
:it's you who must 
:belong to me . . . 
:and thrill my haunted heart . . . 

:Be still, my haunted heart . . . 

:< instrumental break > 

:Dreams are dust, 
:it's you who must 
:belong to me . . . 
:and thrill my haunted heart . . . 

:Be still, my haunted heart . . . 

--from the musical production ''Inside U.S.A.''
Music by Arthur Schwartz
with lyrics by Howard Dietz, 1948

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'''Code 7''' 
Meal break.

'''Cielo Drive''' 
Site of the Mason family murders. More [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10050_Cielo_Drive here].

==Page 211==
'''Evelyn Wood''' 
Developed a system for speed reading. More [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Wood_(teacher) here].

'''Fontana''' 
A city in San Bernardino County, roughly 50 miles east of Los Angeles.

'''Puck's file could be in storage...someplace like Fontana....''' 

Possibly an oblique reference to '''The Big Sleep.''' Art Huck's chop shop where Eddie Mars' wife is hiding out is located a mile beyond Realito (Rialto) which would be east Fontana.

==Page 212==
'''"Chotto, Kenichiro! Dozo, motto panukeiku."''' 
Hey, Ken! Please, more pancakes. (''Pannukakku'': Finnish Oven Baked Pancake)

==Page 218==
''''69 Camaro''' 
a bright red '69 Camaro
[[File:1969_red_Camaro.jpg|thumb|left|1969 Camaro [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1969_red_Chevrolet_Camaro_SS_side.JPG © BrokenSphere / Wikimedia Commons ]]] 
 

==Page 219==
'''mug ... intended to keep the mustache of the drinker from getting soaked ... belonged to Marshal Earp''' 
Perhaps only a bizarre coincidence, but a colleague who worked with Pynchon at Boeing in the early '60s, speaking in 1990, described Pynchon as having sported a [http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19900114&slug=1050692 "kind of Wyatt Earp-type handlebar mustache."]

==Page 223==
[[File:1962Bonneville.jpg|thumb|right|1962 Bonneville, photo by [http://www.flickr.com/photos/jacksnell707/3212233895/in/set-72157608598376503/ Jack Snell / Creative Commons]]]
''''62 Bonneville''' a stolen '62 Bonneville parked in a cul-de-sac off Sunset

==Page 225==
'''Ernest Tubb, Jim Reeves, and Webb Pierce''' 
aka, old school country music.

'''John Garfield'''
John Garfield (March 4, 1913 – May 21, 1952) was an American actor. Garfield was especially adept at playing brooding, rebellious, working-class character roles. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Garfield]

==Page 228==
'''Wild Bill Hickok's last poker hand''' 
Maybe the most (in)famous hand in poker history. When Hickok was shot dead in 1876, he was playing poker and holding two pair: aces and eights. Since then, that hand has been called [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_man%27s_hand "Dead Man's Hand"].

==Page 233==
'''Dietz & Schwartz, ''Haunted Heart''''' 

:In the night, 
:though we're apart 
:there's a ghost of you 
:within my haunted heart . . . 

:Ghost of you, 
:my last romance, 
:lips that laughed, 
:eyes that danced . . . 

:Haunted heart 
:won't let me be 
:dreams repeat a sweet 
:but lonely song to me . . . 

:Dreams are dust, 
:it's you who must 
:belong to me . . . 
:and thrill my haunted heart . . . 

:Be still, my haunted heart . . . 

:< instrumental break > 

:Dreams are dust, 
:it's you who must 
:belong to me . . . 
:and thrill my haunted heart . . . 

:Be still, my haunted heart . . . 

--from the musical production ''Inside U.S.A.''
Music by Arthur Schwartz
with lyrics by Howard Dietz, 1948

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

==Page 125==
'''Jurgensen's''' 
Jurgensen's was an upscale, gourmet grocery store with locations in Beverly Hills, Pasadena, and throughout greater LA.

'''Hokusai's famous ''Great Wave off Kanagawa''''' 
a famous woodblock print. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa Wikipedia]

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

==Page 126==
'''the Boards...''' 
As the surf band that makes it big, the Boards suggest the Beach Boys. Pynchon himself once visited the home of Brian Wilson in Beverly Hills. See [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pynchon_and_Brian_Wilson Pynchon and Brian Wilson]. Perhaps this chapter drew some inspiration from that visit?

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

'''parallel time''' 
This paragraph ''may'' be a coded reference to Pynchon's own [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page Against the Day] and its reception. ''Against the Day'' features parallel universes/time (?) and confounded readers nation- (and world-)wide. This interpretation may be a stretch. I dunno. [[User:Bleakhaus|Bleakhaus]] 22:59, 9 August 2009 (PDT)

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

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

'''Farfisa''' 
One of the first electric keyboards/organs used in rock and roll. More [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farfisa here].

==Page 130==
'''George Formby''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Formby,_Jr. George Formby, Jr.] performed "Leaning on a Lamppost" (written by Noel Gay) which Herman's Hermits covered. Tyrone Slothrop, protagonist of ''Gravity's Rainbow'' is described as "sort of an American George Formby, if you can imagine such a thing."

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

'''abrazo''' 
Spanish for hug.

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

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

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

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

==Page 144==
'''esta gente no sabe nada''' 
Spanish for "these people know nothing."

==Page 145==
'''hijo de puta''' 
Spanish for "son of a bitch."

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

==Page 146==
'''"Cootie food!'''" 
What Doc means is "le coup de foudre," aka "bolt of lightning." This echos Reef's 'rounder Italian'; "Say surly topple!" he would scream..." (page 889) from [[Against the Day]]. 
The English meaning, if it has one, and the explanation for Clancy Charlock's response to Doc, is unclear. It may perhaps refer to the childish fear of being infected by a sort of imaginary germ borne by the opposite sex and known as "cooties," which - possibly - makes a member of the opposite sex whom you touch "cootie food." Or, it could just be a very idiosyncratic reference to oral sex. 
The phrase is apparently used - at least in the South, and not commonly - to refer to unappetizing or unclean food.

Cooties is slang for crabs or lice.

==Page 147==
'''Now, Voyager (1942)''' 
from Wikipedia: Now, Voyager is a 1942 American drama film directed by Irving Rapper. The screenplay by Casey Robinson is based on the 1941 novel of the same name by Olive Higgins Prouty, who borrowed her title from a line in the Walt Whitman poem "The Untold Want," which reads in its entirety, "The untold want by life and land ne'er granted, / Now voyager sail thou forth to seek and find." Bette Davis' portrayal garnered her an Academy Award nomination, and the film continues to be popular not only due to its star power but also the "emotional crescendos" engendered in the storyline.

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

==Page 148==
'''Zubin Mehta''' 
A famous conductor, Zubin Mehta was the Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, 1962-1978. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zubin_Mehta]

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

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

==Page 125==
'''Jurgensen's''' 
Jurgensen's was an upscale, gourmet grocery store with locations in Beverly Hills, Pasadena, and throughout greater LA.

'''Hokusai's famous ''Great Wave off Kanagawa''''' 
a famous woodblock print. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa Wikipedia]

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

==Page 126==
'''the Boards...''' 
As the surf band that makes it big, the Boards suggest the Beach Boys. Pynchon himself once visited the home of Brian Wilson in Beverly Hills. See [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pynchon_and_Brian_Wilson Pynchon and Brian Wilson]. Perhaps this chapter drew some inspiration from that visit?

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

'''parallel time''' 
This paragraph ''may'' be a coded reference to Pynchon's own [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page Against the Day] and its reception. ''Against the Day'' features parallel universes/time (?) and confounded readers nation- (and world-)wide. This interpretation may be a stretch. I dunno. [[User:Bleakhaus|Bleakhaus]] 22:59, 9 August 2009 (PDT)

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

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

'''Farfisa''' 
One of the first electric keyboards/organs used in rock and roll. More [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farfisa here].

==Page 130==
'''George Formby''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Formby,_Jr. George Formby, Jr.] performed "Leaning on a Lamppost" (written by Noel Gay) which Herman's Hermits covered. Tyrone Slothrop, protagonist of ''Gravity's Rainbow'' is described as "sort of an American George Formby, if you can imagine such a thing."

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

'''abrazo''' 
Spanish for hug.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'''"Cootie food!'''" 
What Doc means is "le coup de foudre," aka "bolt of lightning." This echos Reef's 'rounder Italian'; "Say surly topple!" he would scream..." (page 889) from [[Against the Day]]. 
The English meaning, if it has one, and the explanation for Clancy Charlock's response to Doc, is unclear. It may perhaps refer to the childish fear of being infected by a sort of imaginary germ borne by the opposite sex and known as "cooties," which - possibly - makes a member of the opposite sex whom you touch "cootie food." Or, it could just be a very idiosyncratic reference to oral sex. 
The phrase is apparently used - at least in the South, and not commonly - to refer to unappetizing or unclean food.

Cooties is a slang term for crabs or lice.

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

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

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

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

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