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==Page 364==
'''. . . the Lakers would lose Game 7 of the finals to the Knicks''' 
Friday, May 8, 1970. The final score was Knicks 113, Lakers 99. This means that the novel ends on Pynchon's 33rd birthday, a nice way to underscore the semi-autobiographical nature of ''Inherent Vice''. Furthermore, this situates the ending of the novel just four days after the Kent State Massacre on May 4, 1970 - yet another way of telling us that the beach is being paved over and that the sixties have come to an end. Btw, it's working backwards from this certain time-marker of May 8th and using other time-markers noted in the Wiki chapter annotations that tells us that events in parts of chapter 16 and all of chapter 17 must take place during an "extra" day outside of chronological time in the novel (see chapter 16, p. 281 notes).

==Page 365==
'''Ones and zeros''' 
Binary code, the language of computers. Also mentioned in ''Vineland'' (pp. 90 and 115) and in ''Crying of Lot 49''.

==Page 366==
'''Tubular, dude''' 
A nice pun. "Tubular," in surfer slang, means something like "awesome" or "cool." It refers to the tubes or curls of the waves. But in the context here with Doc and Sparky, the tubes in question are vacuum tubes, which were used on computers (and radios and TVs and speakers) before transistors. An anachronism on Doc's part, no? For after 1947 and the invention of the transistor, vaccuum tubes were no longer common in computer design.

Computer monitors of that era often used cathode ray tubes (CRT's). Television sets also used them, which is why TV is called "The Tube".

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

'''for a while went through the exercise''' 
As Riggs Warbling drinks margaritas "without going through the exercise of pouring anything into a glass" on page 62.

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

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

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

There is one passage in the speech that Nixon gave that day which can be read as Nixon announcing a domestic espionage program of the sort described in Vineland and intimated in Gravity's Rainbow and Inherent Vice. It surely would have borne scrutiny from any paranoid, professional or otherwise. Nixon is responding to a question about the Kent State killings:

"If there is one thing I am personally committed to, it is this: I saw the pictures of those four youngsters in the Evening Star the day after that tragedy, and I vowed then that we were going to find methods that would be more effective to deal with these problems of violence, methods that would deal with those who would use force and violence and endanger others, but, at the same time, would not take the lives of innocent people."

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

==Pages 368/369==

'''Gordita Beach Exit''' 
On the last two pages of ''Inherent Vice'', Doc Sportello is on the Santa Monica freeway which then merges onto the San Diego, heading south:

'''Doc figured if he missed the Gordita Beach exit he'd take the first one whose sign he could read and work his way back on surface streets. He knew that at Rosecrans the freeway began to dogleg east, and at some point, Hawthorne Boulevard or Artesia, he'd lose the fog.''' 

This series of street names and off-ramps points to Manhattan Beach where Pynchon wrote much of [http://gravitysrainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow''] while living in a tiny beach apartment in the north end of the city around between 1967-1971. The Manhattan Beach Boulevard exit to Doc house would Rosecrans . The Artesia exit is after Hawthorne. [http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&safe=off&ei=JoxrSo7SGY2CsgPN_LSXBQ&resnum=0&q=Manhattan+beach+california&um=1&ie=UTF-8&split=0&gl=us Google Maps]; [http://www.theaesthetic.com/NewFiles/pynchon.html Much more about Pynchon in Manhattan Beach...]

Though Doc Sportello shares some qualities with Zoyd Wheeler of ''Vineland'', contrast Doc's reaction to driving in fog with Zoyd's, when Zoyd and other members of the "Corvairs" "surfadelic" band "play motorhead valley roulette," speeding into patches of ground fog hoping that "the white passage held no other vehicles, no curves, no construction, only smooth, level, empty roadway to an indefinite distance--a motorhead variation on a surfer's dream" ([http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_4#Page_37 ''Vineland '' page 37]).

In addition to the tule fog just mentioned, ''Vineland'' also describes a gigantic fog bank in Hollywood caused when the film community simultaneously opens its refrigerators and flushes its drugs down the toilet in fear of the Reagan administration ([http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_15#Page_339 ''Vineland'' page 339]). All of these fogs signify the obscurity of the future.

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

Reminiscent of, and comparable to, the magnificent ending of James Joyce's "The Dead" ("snow was general all over Ireland...").

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

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

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

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

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

'''you might want to wear some Sperry Topsiders instead of that one huarache?''' 
A rather odd comment, since it would appear that Sauncho hasn't seen Doc since he lost the huarache (page 327). They talked on the beach on page 340-341, where Sauncho gave his "courtroom summary" on the subject of time, but that's presented as a dream (before Doc is "fire-gonged" awake by Crocker Fenway). Doc and Sauncho also talked on page 351, where Sauncho defined [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_20#Page_351 inherent vice], but that was apparently a flashback, since it doesn't seem that Sauncho was in Doc's apartment while Doc was looking at photos, watching Hawaii Five-0 and talking to his parents. Perhaps the dream was not actually a dream?

'''Like Gilligan?''' 
Another explicit linking of Doc and Gilligan. See [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_7#Page_89 page 89] and [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_7#Page_92 page 92].

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

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

==Page 359==
'''kiss her transom goodbye''' 
According to Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, transom means: "1.d. any of several transverse timbers or beams secured to the sternpost of a boat; also, the planking forming the stern of a square-ended boat." So, basically, kiss her ass (or fantail, as Sauncho calls it on page 356) goodbye.

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

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

==Page 363==

'''You know what the Indians say. You saved my life, now you've got to-''' 
Recalls the bit in [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Against the Day''] between Scarsdale Vibe and Foley Walker: "You know what the Indians out west believe? That if you save the life of another, he becomes your responsibility forever" ([http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_97-118#Page_101 p. 101]). Also referred to on [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_11#Page_171 p. 171] of this book.

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

'''Manhattan Beach'''
 Compare the parallel universes that fascinate viewers of the TV soap ''Dark Shadows'', referenced earlier in ''Inherent Vice'' (128, etc.). Manhattan Beach also happens to be the California seaside town where Pynchon lived for many years in the 1960s and early 1970s while working on ''Gravity's Rainbow''; it's loosely the model for Gordita Beach.

==Page 257==
'''Some college break or something.''' 
Saturday, May 2, 1970, six days after Easter. It's plausible that Spring Break could be going on. [No--this is wacky chronology. Since when do universities have spring break in May? That's about when the spring semester ends. More likely the hazy chronology here marks Denis' own spaciness, hardly helpful to Doc trying to get his space-time bearings. It's nice to have Pynchon-Wiki give us such precise dates for the book's events, but readers need to remember that Doc's mental state often isn't so precisely locatable on a space-time coordinate grid.]

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

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

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

==Page 259==
'''mind if we call in the lab on this one?''' 
Bigfoot is caught by a variation of his own gag from page 22: "we left the rottweiler back at the station."

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

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

'''...a steep front edge to it and very short decay time''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADSR_envelope Wikipedia] has an article about the ADSR envelope (attack, decay, sustain, and release). It is described in terms of synthesizers, but all sounds have these components.

==Page 261==
'''The Saturday horror movie tonight was''' 
Late night, Saturday, May 2, 1970.

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

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

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

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

'''news hour''' 
This makes more sense as a typo for 'next hour' (or was the movie interrupted for an hour of news???).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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==Page 207==
'''The vibes around Robbery-Homicide Division this morning''' 
Morning, Tuesday, April 28, 1970.

==Page 208==
'''Code 7''' 
Meal break.

'''Swedish pancakes with lingonberries''' 
Possibly a Big Lebowski reference, since lingonberry pancakes are consumed by some of the faux-kidnapper Nihilists in that film.

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

'''endless summer''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Endless_Summer The Endless Summer] is one of the first and most famous surfing films. And let's not forget The Endless/Eternal Summer Surf Shop on the [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Inherent_Vice_cover_analysis cover] of Inherent Vice.

==Page 209==

'''Black Dahlia''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_dahlia Elizabeth Short] Victim of a famous unsolved murder.

'''Tom Ince''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_H._Ince Major film industry figure] On November 19, 1924, Ince died, officially of a heart attack suffered while on a weekend boat trip with William Randolph Hearst aboard Hearst's lavish yacht, the ''Oneida'', while attending a cruise in honor of Ince's 42nd birthday. Since then, rumors have circulated that Hearst murdered Ince in a fit of jealousy. The 2001 film [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cat%27s_Meow The Cat's Meow] was inspired by the murder rumors.

==Page 210==

'''deperate''' 
Typo for desperate.

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

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

'''Puck's file could be in storage...someplace like Fontana....''' 
Possibly an oblique reference to the 1939 crime novel [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Sleep ''The Big Sleep'']. Art Huck's chop shop where Eddie Mars' wife is hiding out is located a mile beyond Realito (Rialto). Fontana is adjacent to Rialto in San Bernadino County.

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

'''man goes around like Prince Charles, like they're going to crown him chief any day''' 
And, of course, it's now nearly 40 years later, and Prince Charles is, as Talking Heads always say, still waiting...

==Page 216==
'''Waiting at the office when Doc got back from lunch''' 
afternoon, Tuesday, April 28, 1970.

'''Trillium''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillium trillium] is a genus of about 40-50 species of perennial herbaceous flowering plants.

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'''early-music''' 
Usually European music from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, but sometimes used to include the Baroque as well. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_music Wiki.] Being involved in the early music scene during the time frame of the novel meant being a member of the classical music avant-garde.

'''double-quint pommer''' 
Very low voiced, large instrument that could be almost ten feet long.

'''sopranino shawm''' 
Small instrument voiced higher than soprano that could be around twenty inches long.

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

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

==Page 221==
'''They drove toward a spectacular desert sunset''' 
Evening, Tuesday, April 28, 1970.

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

'''"Are you apologizing?" "I don't think so."''' 
Reminiscent of Bigfoot on [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_2#Page_35 page 35].

==Page 224==
'''quien es mas macho'''

Subject of a Saturday Night Live skit--Season 4, Episode 12 (2/17/79).

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

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

'''Puck and Einar might not be in tonight.''' 
Evening, Tuesday, April 28, 1970.

==Page 226==
'''Meantime there's the rent coming due and so forth.''' 
Plausible enough, as it's Tuesday, April 28, 1970.

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

==Page 232==
'''Next thing he knew it seemed to be early afternoon''' 
Afternoon, Wednesday, April 29, 1970.

'''As it was getting dark, Trillium finally showed up.''' 
Evening, Wednesday, April 29, 1970.

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

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

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

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

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

:Be still, my haunted heart . . . 

:< instrumental break > 

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

:Be still, my haunted heart . . . 

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

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLbSwaWaFx0 Listen] to Renee Fleming.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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==Page 111==
There is no direct cue from the narrator that this the next day, but considering that Doc spent the night tripping, and now Aunt Reet's office is open, it's safe to assume that this is the seventh day of the narrative, Monday, March 30, 1970.

'''Arbolada Savings and Loan in Ojai''' 
While the actual bank is apparently fictional, there is a neighborhood in the Ojai Valley named "Arbolada." It is, at least today, one the most expensive and desirable neighborhoods in the area. In Spanish, "arbolada" refers to a woodland.

'''Theosophists''' 
Theosophy is a doctrine of religious philosophy (according to Wikipedia) which holds that all religions are related to a higher truth. The Theosophical Society in America operates an institute called Krotona in Ojai, near the fictional Chryskylodon.

==Page 113==
'''Doc was home watching division semifinals between the 76ers and Milwaukee''' 
Pynchon has given a clue that helps to locate the narrative in real time: the NBA playoffs. The Eastern Division Semifinals took place on Wednesday, March 25, Friday, March 27, Monday, March 30, Wednesday, April 1 and Friday, April 3, 1970. That makes this day Monday, March 30.

[[File:1969Oldsmobile.jpg|thumb|right|1969 Oldsmobile, photo by [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1969_Oldsmobile_Ninety-Eight-3.jpg Stripedtomato]]]
'''Leo and Elmina Sportello's 1969 Oldsmobile'''
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==Page 114==
'''a spot just down the hill good at least till midnight''' 
Night, the seventh day of the narrative, Monday, March 30, 1970.

==Page 115==
'''Skyhook Lodge''' 
A ''skyhook'' has the crane-like ability to hoist an object into the air on a strong line attached to the object via hook but not attached to anything at the skyward end. While the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyhook skyhook] has long been in use for sundry purposes, its best use to date has been in a philosophical context as discussed [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin's_Dangerous_Idea here].

==Page 116==
'''Cora Smith''' 
Also from the novel [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Postman_Always_Rings_Twice ''The Postman Always Rings Twice'']. This is another detective favorite of Pynchon from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_M._Cain James M. Cain] (1892-1977), the other being [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Indemnity_(novel) ''Double Indemnity'']. Cora, a ''femme fatale'' figure, is tired of her life, married to an older man she doesn't love and working in a diner that she wishes she could own and improve. She meets a young drifter, Frank Chambers, and they very soon begin a passionate affair and eventually scheme to murder Cora's husband in order to start a new life together without Cora losing the diner.

The 1946 movie version starred John Garfield, making this one of the more oblique of Pynchon's numerous references to Garfield in this book.

'''Later, though, around three A.M.''' 
Very late night, the seventh day of the narrative, Monday, March 30, 1970.

==Page 117==
'''Next morning, waiting for the coffee''' 
Morning, the eighth day of the narrative, Tuesday, March 31, 1970.

[[File:289_Mustang.jpg|thumb|right|Maroon 289 Mustang]]
'''a maroon 289 Mustang''' 
Sauncho's classic beach-town ride. 

'''Nixon was staring wildly''' 
Cf. Lot 49 "In the .15 dark green from the 1893 Columbian Exposition Issue ("Columbus Announcing His Discovery"), the faces of three courtiers, receiving the news at the right-hand side of the stamp, had been subtly altered to express uncontrollable fright."

==Page 118==
'''[http://skepdic.com/sympathetic.html sympathetic magic]''' 
Sympathetic magic is based on the metaphysical belief that like affects like.

'''The Way to His Heart''' 
This fictional soap opera is filled with recipes because "The way to a man's heart is through his stomach."

==Page 119==
'''Charlie the fucking Tuna''' 
Charlie the Tuna is a cartoon character and mascot for StarKist Tuna. You can see his "designer shades" and "beret" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_the_Tuna here].

'''single up all lines''' 
A phrase frequently used by Pynchon in all his novels except ''Vineland'', likely because of its multiple meanings, metaphorically.

:"single up all lines" is used in its normal nautical context in [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#single_up_all_lines ''V.'', pp. 11 & 438]; [http://cl49.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_2#single_up_all_lines ''The Crying of Lot 49'', p.31]; [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_488-491#single_up_all_lines ''Gravity's Rainbow'', p.489]; [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_26:_257-265#Page_258 ''Mason & Dixon'', pp.258 and 260]; and [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_1-25#Page_3 ''Against the Day'', p.3]. Perhaps we can understand this "line" as a text-string linking Pynchon's novels together (all but [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki ''Vineland'']?). Of course, the fact that ''Vineland'' ''doesn't'' include the phrase sort of throws a spanner in the works, as far as assigning ''meaning''!

==Page 120==
'''That evening over at Penny's place''' 
Evening, the eighth day of the narrative, Tuesday, March 31, 1970.

This whole scene is odd, though, since the last time Doc saw Penny (page 72) she handed him over to the FBI, but this isn't mentioned here at all... Perhaps an instance of Dark Shadows-type parallel time.

'''if it's Fascism for Freedom? I... can... dig it!''' 
An echo, perhaps, of Barry Goldwater's quote, "I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice." [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/daily/may98/goldwaterspeech.htm washingtonpost.com].

==Page 121==
'''yet another Hitler documentary''' 
The "another" implies that they had watched other Hitler documentaries - the most famous being Leni Riefenstahl's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_of_the_will ''Triumph of the Will'']. The description of the Nixon rally that Doc is watching has similarities to ''Triumph''.

One of Pynchon's research materials for writing [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow''] was a book called ''From Caligari to Hitler'' by Siegfried Kracauer.

Note that [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_of_the_will ''Triumph of the Will''] was a favorite film of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._Gordon_Liddy G. Gordon Liddy], a main figure in the Watergate scandal that enveloped President Nixon, whose televised rally Penny mistakes for a Hitler documentary.

==Page 122==
'''fuck Spiro, too!''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiro_Agnew Spiro Agnew] was Nixon's Vice President.

'''Anybody know the dog's name?''' 
Yes. While [http://www.infoplease.com/biography/var/checkers.html Checkers] was Nixon's most famous dog, by the time Nixon got to the White House, Checkers was long gone. While President, Nixon's dog was King Timahoe. Tricia had a Yorkie named Pasha, and Julie had a poodle named Vickie. You can read about it [http://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forkids/trivia.php here]. 
Pascha is the Greek Orthodox name for Easter.

'''the P-DIDdies''' 
A (deliberately) lame joke. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puff_daddy Sean Combs] is a rapper, producer, and entrepreneur whose stage names include Diddy, Puff Daddy, and P. Diddy.

==Page 123==
'''Rick Doppel''' 
'Doppel' means 'double' in German and might refer here to the 'doppelganger'-motif or shifting identities in a more general way. The theme seems to be prominent in this chapter. The films mentioned on p.115 belong in this context, for example. In ''Black Narcissus'', Kathleen Byron's character, Sister Ruth, can be seen as the dark double of Deborah Kerr's Sister Clodagh. In Robert Wiene's ''Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari'', the somnambulist Cesare commits crimes when he is under the hypnotic spell of the title figure; Caligari himself may be director of a circus attraction or of a psychiatric hospital. In Fritz Lang's ''Metropolis'', a character called Maria is replaced by a robot.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2. '''Never trust a flatland chick''' 
We may suppose that, for Doc, a ''flatland'' chick is one attuned to a reality both foreign and detrimental to that of a surfer. For several centuries, natives of mountainous Vermont have indicated a person's lack of merit by calling him/her a ''flatlander'', meaning an outsider. While the term may have originated in Vermont, it has long been common as a perjorative in the elevated regions of New England (and elsewhere) to consider folk native to places neither mountainous nor hilly as flatlanders. See examples: [http://www.nerepublican.com/index.php/2008/11/28/open-notes-on-flatlanders/ 1], [http://www.epicski.com/forum/thread/20829/ski-slang#post_222378 2], [http://www.slangcity.com/email_archive/1_01_04.htm 3], and [http://en.allexperts.com/e/f/fl/flatlander_(disambiguation).htm 4]. It is not hard to imagine a surfing New Englander paddling far out from a Southern California beach in the 1950s; she/he may have caught a montainous wave, jumped atop her/his board and, looking back at the bland continental landmass, declared it all-in-all as ''flatland''. By one mind or another, the concept caught a wave. As evidenced by the term ''platteland'' in

[http://www.wavescape.co.za/archive/bot_bar/surfrikan/slangM-R.html ‘surfrikan’ slang], ''flatland'' may still occur in surfers’ conversation (although it is otherwise not to be found in current internet surfer slang dictionaries).
Beyond the traditions of wave surfing, a derived sport,

[http://tydlemag.blogspot.com/ flatland skimboarding], has made ''flatland'' more respectable. Thus a skimboarder blog declares,

“[http://www.inlandskimboarding.blogspot.com/ No waves here, it's all about the flatland].”

3. '''Never trust a flatland chick''' 

Or go to the alphabetical index and take "flatland" to mean the less hip areas at the foot [feet?] of the LA area mountains

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The joke is based on a misconception of Latin plurals: if stewardess were a Latin word spelled "stewardus" (which would, ironically, make it masculine) the plural would be "stewardi". It is only nouns ending in "ius" which are pluralized "-ii", eg radius/radii.

The reference in the promo video may echo a throwaway line on the first page of ''The Crying of Lot 49,'' when Oedipa Maas discovers she has "been named executor, or she supposed executrix." The fact that Oedipa's supposition is a completely correct change of from masculine to feminine emphasizes the difference between the reasonably well-educated Oedipa and Doc.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''supernaturally cherry vintage Auburn'''

Auburn Automobile Company of Auburn, Indiana, 1900-1937.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auburn_Automobile]
[[File:1929 Auburn A890 Speedster.jpg|200px|thumb|right|1929 A890 Speedster]]

'''LNM WOW'''

"Lourdes and Motella = WOW"

'''Beach Boys'''

This must follow some Beach Boys melody. Anyone?

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

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

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

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

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

'''connexes''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connex#Shipping Shipping containers.] While [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connex this source] may legitimize the term with a double n, the original acronym used a single n. "In 1952 the army began using the term CONEX, short for "Container Express". The first major shipment of CONEXes (containing engineering supplies and spare parts) were shipped by rail from the Columbus General Depot in Georgia to the Port of San Francisco, then by ship to Yokohama, Japan, and then to Korea, in late 1952. Shipment times were cut almost in half. By the time of the Vietnam War the majority of supplies and materials were shipped with the CONEX. After the U.S. Department of Defense standardized an 8'×8' cross section container in multiples of 10' lengths for military use it was rapidly adopted for shipping purposes." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Containerization#Origins]

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

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

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

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

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

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'''LZ''' 
Vietnam soldier slang for "landing zone."

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

'''''abuelita''''' 
Spanish: (literally) little grandmother

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''didt'n''' 
According to [http://www.google.com/search?tbs=bks:1&tbo=p&q=didt%27n+inauthor:pynchon&num=100 Google Books], this spelling also occurs twice in Against the Day, and 12 times in Vineland.

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

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