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Chapter 10

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pinks -- famous for its chile dogs -- was sort of a best-kept secret in the 1960s and 1970s, particularly for stoners quelling late-night hungers. Now its popularity has made it way too busy -- with hour-long lines.

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

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

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

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

==Page 158==
When Jason Velveeta and Doc are walking down Sunset, Pynchon writes "They walked up past the Chateau Marmont to Hollywood Boulevard ..." You can't get up to Hollywood Blvd. past the Chateau Marmont on Sunset since at this point, there are no cross-streets between the two; Hollywood Blvd. has become residential and winds up into the Hollywood Hills.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 162==

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

'''He walked down to the Arizona Palms and had the All-Nighter Special.''' 
Arizona Palms most likely refers to [https://www.facebook.com/VintageLosAngeles/posts/carolina-pines-jr-located-at-sunset-and-la-brea-during-the-1960s-across-the-stre/582149815175075 Carolina Pines Jr.], on the corner of La Brea and Sunset in Hollywood. The coffee shop was fairly popular with families in the 1950s and with teens and hippies in the 1960s. It closed in 1971.

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Patchouli Scent''' 
53, 156-57; Patchouli oil scent (from the patchouli plant, a type of aromatic herb) was popular with hippies (both men and women) in the 1960s because of its spiritual connotations (in yoga and meditation, for example) -- and because it helped mask the smell of marijuana.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Plastic Nickel''' 
293;

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''PV''' 
143; Palos Verdes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pinks -- famous for its chile dogs -- was sort of a best-kept secret in the 1960s and 1970s, particularly for stoners quelling late-night hungers. Now its popularity has made it way too busy -- with hour-long lines.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 162==

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

'''He walked down to the Arizona Palms and had the All-Nighter Special.''' 
Arizona Palms most likely refers to [https://www.facebook.com/VintageLosAngeles/posts/carolina-pines-jr-located-at-sunset-and-la-brea-during-the-1960s-across-the-stre/582149815175075 Carolina Pines Jr.], on the corner of La Brea and Sunset in Hollywood. The coffee shop was fairly popular with families in the 1950s and with teens and hippies in the 1960s. It closed in 1971.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 26==
'''Fatso Judson''' 
Fatso Judson is the sadistic stockade sergeant played by Ernest Borgnine in "From Here To Eternity," a 1953 drama film based on the novel of the same name by James Jones.

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

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

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

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

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

See also M&D, p. 41.

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

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

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

==Page 30==
'''the local news came on''' 
Early evening Wednesday, March 25, 1970, the second day of the narrative.

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

See Joan Didion's description of the [http://theessayexperiencefall2013.qwriting.qc.cuny.edu/files/2013/12/Joan-Didion_on-the-Santa-Anas-.pdf freaky Santa Ana's] in her "Los Angeles Notebook" section of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slouching_Towards_Bethlehem Slouching Towards Bethlehem]. On nights like that," Raymond Chandler once wrote about the Santa Anas, "every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen."

==Page 31==
'''intended to give the victim mouth-to-mouth''' 
This car-to-human interaction is similar to [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_12#Page_230 a scene in ''Vineland''] in which Rex has sex with his Porsche, which also recalls Rachel Owlglass's intimate relationship with her MG in [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1 Chapter 1 of ''V.''].

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

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

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

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

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

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

This quote also appearsin slightly modified form in "Against the Day".
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'''[http://www.888bailbond.com/lacounty/parkercenter.html Glass House]''' 
Familiar name of downtown LA's Metropolitan Jail.

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 36==

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

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

==Page 37==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

One of the main ingredients in Drano is Sodium Hydroxide, also known as "caustic soda".

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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==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.

Varathaned hatch-covers were popular home accessories for the "hip" middle-class in the 1960s and 70s; they were used as coffee tables. A small cottage industry selling them arose in Venice for awhile.

'''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.

Also, this phrase appears in ''Against the Day'', [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_171-198#Page_195 pg. 195].

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

'''head for the toilet''' 
Another pun: the toilet on a boat is called the "head".

'''a tremendous nitroglycerin explosion in Halifax Harbor'''

The largest accidental explosion in history, December 6, 1917. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion]

Note that the 1917 Halifax explosion was not caused by nitroglycerin, but by TNT and other wartime explosives.

'''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." 

Later one can see certain parallels between Burke Stodger's experience with the schooner and Mickey's.

==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 94==
'''Hoover Library at Stanford'''

The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library--not J. Edgar.

==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==
'''Yeah, PIs should really stay away from drugs, all 'em alternate universes just make the job that much more complicated.''' 
Needless to say, the above quote by Fritz is pretty ironic. Only a few lines earlier they had been passing a roach back and forth. But the line itself provides a good set up for the remainder of Doc's visit with Fritz. "Alternate universes" are merely brought up in reference to drug trips, but what are stories other than alternate universes that squares and dopers alike enjoy visiting? The line between pop culture and reality is always getting blurred in ''Inherent Vice'', clearly seen here in Doc's attempt at using Sherlock Holmes as a real life example of a fellow detective doing drugs. '''"He's a made up character in a bunch of stories, Doc." "Wh- Naw. He's real..."''' 

This idea gets pushed even further as Doc and Fritz, already in the alternate universe of dope, head on down to Zucky's, but only after Fritz makes a reference to yet another pop culture entity, Cheech and Chong. Once they get there, there are even more folks focused on an alternate universe, in this case ''Marcus Welby, M.D.'' (see below.) The influence of pop culture, both in this scene and ''Inherent Vice'' in general, is ubiquitous. The next page has the two of them discussing pop culture directly, with Doc more or less breaking the fourth wall in his analysis of how detectives and cops are depicted, both then and now.

[[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 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."

Doc's rant about too many cop shows on TV echoes [http://bleedingedge.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_37#Page_418 Ernie Turnow's rant against TV cop shows on page 418 of ''Bleeding Edge'']. Both characters lament the disappearance on TV of great Private Investigators and the emergence of heroic cops. In ''Inherent Vice'', Doc sees it just beginning ("the tube is saturated with fuckin cop shows"). In ''Bleeding Edge'' Ernie is looking back to when Maxine and her sister were kids watching TV which would be the early 1970s when ''Inherent Vice'' takes place and he'd ground them if he caught them watching a "cop show" "What happened to private eyes, lovable criminals? lost in all that post-sixties propaganda."

'''"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]

The above quote is followed by Doc's '''"Don't forget piss and moan."''' 
Their exchange bears a striking resemblance to dialogue from Woody Allen's 1970s romantic comedy ''Annie Hall''. The main love interest comments on the care free life of Californians, "It's wonderful. I mean, you know they just watch movies all day." To which Woody's neurotic hero quips "Yeah, and gradually get old and die." One can draw a respectable number of parallels between Pynchon and Allen: both have strong ties to New York, both tend to write highly paranoid characters, and both enjoy giving California a hard time. Hell, they were even born around the same couple years. Funnily enough, ''Annie Hall'''s protagonist seems to have the exact opposite opinion on dope as Doc.

==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 108==
'''blotter''' 
LSD was frequently distributed in the form of drops of the active chemical dried onto sheets of blotter paper. A single dose would normally be a square of blotter paper approximately 1 cm x 1 cm, holding one drop.

Even today, "blotter" refers to a transcript of the day's events in police vernacular. So this appears to be another instance of Pynchon ... umm ... doping his text with the language of 1940's noir novels.

'''Tiny Tim''' 
Tiny Tim was the stage name for novelty performer Herbert Khaury, best known for his rendition of "Tip-toe Through The Tulips With Me" (1968) and his trademark falsetto vocals and ukelele accompaniment.

The song "The Ice Caps Are Melting" is actually called "The Other Side", and can be found on Tiny's first Reprise album "God Bless Tiny Tim".

The refrain's lyrics include these lines:
:The ice caps are melting, 
:The tide is rushing in. 
:All the world is drowning, 
:To wash away the sin. 

Today's readers might be reminded of global warming when they read this, but in 1970, that would not have been on anyone's mind. Rather, the lyrics should probably be taken at face value - water-related image triggers for part of Doc's acid trip.

==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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'''Today, after a deceptively sunny and uneventful spin''' 
Friday, March 27, 1970, the fourth day of the narrative, and Good Friday.

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

==Page 51==
'''KQAS''' 
In [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ''Vineland''], while hassling dopers in Gordita Beach, Hector Zuniga's radio dial was always tuned to KQAS. 

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

'''Droolin' Floyd Womack''' 
See [http://bleedingedge.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_17#Page_195 page 195] in ''Bleeding Edge'' where DFW also makes appearance, with a song as well. 

'''Ondas Nudosas''' 
Spanish: "Gnarly Waves," Pynchon's hilarious (and also accurate) translation of surfer-speak for waves that are great to ride but challenging. The Spanish "nudo," interestingly, in addition to "knot," also carries the meaning "node." Perhaps a philologist can tell us why "knot" didn't bring that meaning with it from the German "Knoten," which also carries the meaning of "node." In any case, "ondas nudosas" could be read as an allusion to the node of meaning surrounding the images of Lemuria, surfing and the mysterious excursions of the Golden Fang in Inherent Vice. "Nudo" and "nude" are false cognates: "nude" in English is rendered into Spanish as "desnudo" -- implicitly "unknotted" and therefore "unclothed."

==Page 52==
'''Fritz Drybeam''' 
How much do you want to bet that ol' Fritz has CIA connections? 

'''Truth serum. Same kind the CIA uses''' 
See: [[Pynchon's California Trilogy and the CIA]]

'''Today Doc found Fritz''' 
Morning, Friday, March 27, 1970, the fourth day of the narrative.

'''Dodge Super Bee'''
[[File:DodgeSuperBee.jpg|thumb|left|1969 Dodge Super Bee, Photo from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_Super_Bee Wikipedia]]]
<div style="clear:both"></div>

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

The ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) created by ARPA of the United States Department of Defense during the Cold War, was the world's first operational packet switching network, and the predecessor of the global Internet.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET Wikipedia]

An interesting discussion about ARPAnet on pg. 195.

'''patchouli scent''' 
Pronounced ''pat choo lee'' (a spondee), a patchouli sent according to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patchouli ''Wiki''] can be found in incense, insect repellents, and alternative medicine--these days. I don't think the smell is particularly pleasant to the modern sense of smell for it '''was''' used as a perfume for centuries according to Wiki.--[[User:Green|Green]] ([[User talk:Green|talk]]) 14:59, 11 July 2012 (PDT)
 
NB: Patchouli oil was popular with hippies (both men and women) in the 1960s because of its spiritual connotations (in yoga and meditation, for example) -- and because it helped mask the smell of marijuana.

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

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

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

'''Ramo isn't telling Woolridge? [sic]''' 
The 1958 merger of Thompson with the Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation (named after Simon Ramo and Dean Wooldridge) was named Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc., then shortened to TRW Inc. in 1965.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRW Wikipedia]

The Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation's main business, from 1954, was acting as the principal technical advisor to the Air Force on the development of the US intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) program. The technical foundation of that effort was, of course, the German V2 program, a principal focus of Gravity's Rainbow. [http://www.spaceline.org/history/6.html Reference] and [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/23/business/23wooldridge.html another one].

Boeing was a contractor for the Minuteman missile system, part of the ICBM program. As a technical writer for Boeing, Pynchon's primary subject was Boeing missile work, including the Minuteman program. [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_6750/is_46-49/ai_n28819965/ Reference]

The Ramo and Wooldridge reference, at least for people with very long memories, may not be as obscure as it first appears. [http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19570429,00.html Link]

The phrasing also recalls the old New York saying, "Does Macy's tell Gimbels?" This referred to two competing department stores a block away from each other near Penn Station. Macy's is still there, but Gimbels is long gone. [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_6750/is_46-49/ai_n28819965/ Reference]

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'''''A Summer Place'' (1959)''' 
Film based on the novel of the same name by Sloan Wilson. It's about two one-time teen lovers, Ken and Sylvia, who end up marrying the wrong people. They meet up 20 years later and begin an adulterous affair. Actress Constance Ford plays Helen, Ken's wife; 353

'''Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem (b. 1947)''' 
American retired basketball player, widely considered one of the greatest players of all time. During his 20-year professional career in the NBA, from 1969 to 1989, he scored the highest points total of any player in league history (38,387), in addition to winning a record six Most Valuable Player Awards and six NBA championships; division semifinals between the 76ers and Milwaukee, aka Lew Alcindor, 113; 223

'''''Adam-12''''' 
32; Adam-12 is an American television drama which originally aired from September 21, 1968 to August 30, 1975 on NBC for 175 episodes. The program followed the daily activities of a pair of LAPD patrol officers – seven-year veteran officer Peter 'Pete' Malloy (Martin Milner) and rookie officer James 'Jim' Reed (Kent McCord) – and to a lesser extent Sergeant William "Mac" MacDonald (William Boyett); 261

'''Addison''' 
311; Burke Stodger's dog, likely named for Addison DeWitt, the cold-blooded theatre critic George Sanders played in ''All About Eve'' (1950).

'''Adolfo''' 
228; Tito Stavrou's brother in law, in Las Vegas; car swap with Doc, 338

'''Allen, Lee''' 
37; "New Orleans studio tenor"

'''''All-Night Freaky Features''''' 
245; fictional TV shoe Doc watches in Las Vegas

'''Allen, Lucius (b. 1947)''' 
223; a former professional basketball player. Prior to his NBA career, he was part of one of John Wooden's legendary UCLA teams. He was drafted by the Seattle SuperSonics in the 1st round (3rd pick) of the 1969 NBA Draft and retired in 1979.

'''Alpert, Herb''' 
American musician most associated with the group variously known as Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass or as Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass or just TJB for short. He is also famous for being a recording industry executive — he is the "A" of A&M Records (a recording label he and business partner Jerry Moss founded and eventually sold).156; and the Tijuana Brass ; "This Guy's in Love with You" 156; covering "Yummy Yummy Yummy" 332

'''American Security Council''' 
95; "private intelligence operation" out of Chicago, since 1955

'''AMORC''' 
186; The Rosicrucian Order, Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC) is a worldwide mystical, Rosicrucian, educational, humanitarian and fraternal organiZation founded by Harvey Spencer Lewis.

'''Anais''' 
136; Jade and Bambi's cat, likely named for the Cuban-Spanish-French author Anais Nin (1903-1977) who became famous for her published journals, which span more than 60 years, beginning when she was 11 years old and ending shortly before her death. Nin is also famous for her erotica.

'''''Another World''''' 
Television soap opera that ran on the NBC network from 1964 to 1999. In its early years opened with announcer Bill Wolff (1964-1987) intoning its epigram, "We do not live in this world alone, but in a thousand other worlds," which Irna Phillips, the show's creator, said represented the difference between "the world of events we live in, and the world of feelings and dreams that we strive for. Actress Constance Ford played Ada, the hairdresser; Elmira watching while high, with Oriole, 353

'''AP Finance''' 
271; Puck Beaverton's former employer that did "regular business with many officers in the Department"; Doc visits Adrian Prussia, 315

'''aqua jelly beans''' 
161; reference to Van Halen's stipulation for no brown M&Ms in their dressing room.

'''Arbolata Savings & Loan''' 
111; in Ojai, used by Mickey Wolfmann and the Chryskylodon Institute; check sent to El Drano drawn from, 265

'''Archies, The''' 
The Archies is a fictional garage band founded by Archie Andrews, Reggie Mantle, and Jughead Jones, a group of adolescent fictional characters of the Archie universe, in the context of the animated TV series, ''The Archie Show''; "Sugar, Sugar" 10

'''Area 51''' 
361; Nickname for a military base that is located in the southern portion of Nevada in the western United States (83 miles north-northwest of downtown Las Vegas). Situated at its center, on the southern shore of Groom Lake, is a large secretive military airfield. Although the base's primary purpose is to support development and testing of experimental aircraft and weapons systems, its secretive nature and undoubted connection to classified aircraft research, together with reports of unusual phenomena, have led it to become a focus of modern UFO and conspiracy theories, including the storage, examination, and reverse engineering of crashed alien spacecraft (including material supposedly recovered at Roswell), the study of their occupants (living and dead), and the manufacture of aircraft based on alien technology, and meetings or joint undertakings with extraterrestrials; space aliens, 361

'''Arizona Palms''' 
162; diner where Doc eats "All-Nighter Special." Most likely refers to Carolina Pines Jr., on the corner of La Brea and Sunset in Hollywood. The coffee shop was fairly popular with families in the 1950s and with teens and hippies in the 1960s. It closed in 1971.

'''Arnold the pig''' 
254; a pig in the TV series ''Green Acres'' (1965-1971), he was treated as the son of Fred and Doris Ziffel.

'''Arnould, Thomas''' 
91; the intended reference is presumably Joseph Arnould, an expert on marine insurance, who published a treatise on the subject in 1848. There was also a Thomas Arnold (no "u"), but he appears to have had no connection with insurance, marine or otherwise.

'''ARPAnet''' 
The ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) created by ARPA of the United States Department of Defense during the Cold War, was the world's first operational packet switching network, and the predecessor of the global Internet. It came online in 1969 with four routers (then called Interface Message Processors - IMPs), located at UCLA, Stanford Research Institute (SRI), UC Santa Barbara, and the University of Utah, and initially running at 50 kbit/second; at Gotcha!, 53; 195; 258; Fritz feels it has "taken his soul" 365

'''Arrepentimiento''' 
62; Wolfmann's "longtime dream project ... near Las Vegas; Wolfmann's imagined city in Las Vegas, Spanish for "sorry about that" 248; Doc and Tito arrive, 249

'''Artesia Crips''' 
16; the Artesia Freeway is a major east-west freeway located entirely within Southern California and serving several regions of the Greater Los Angeles metropolitan area.; the Crips is primarily, but not exclusively, African American gang. The "Artesia Crips" is fictional.

'''Aryan Brotherhood''' 
White prison gang, formed by a a group of bikers in 1964 at San Quentin State Prison; and Mickey Wolfmann, 7; and Tariq Khalil, 16; trying to recruit Glen Charlock, 291

'''Astrology''' 
40; “Neptune, the dopers’ planet, and Uranus, the planet of rude surprises”

'''Asymmetric Bob''' 
127; Spotted Dick's lead vocalist

'''Aubrey''' 
153; Clancy Charlock's biker friend/lover

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''He walked down to the Arizona Palms and had the All-Nighter Special.''' 
Arizona Palms most likely refers to [https://www.facebook.com/VintageLosAngeles/posts/carolina-pines-jr-located-at-sunset-and-la-brea-during-the-1960s-across-the-stre/582149815175075 Carolina Pines Jr.], on the corner of La Brea and Sunset in Hollywood. The coffee shop was fairly popular with families in the 1950s and with teens and hippies in the 1960s. It closed in 1971.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 162==

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

'''He walked down to the Arizona Palms and had the All-Nighter Special.''' 
Arizona Palms most likely refers to Carolina Pines Jr., on the corner of La Brea and Sunset in Hollywood. The coffee shop was fairly popular with families in the 1950s and with teens and hippies in the 1960s. It closed in 1971.

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

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