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'''a mural depicting the arrival of the Portola expedition in 1769 at a bend of the river near what became downtown L.A.''' 
A real or imagined mural? Could Pynchon's description be somewhat inspired by the [http://www.ci.laguna-hills.ca.us/depts/admin/civic_center_public_art/online_exhibits/council_chamber_murals.asp mural] of Gaspar de Porlolá's expedition that is in the City of Laguna Hills Council Chamber meeting room? Mural by Robert Evans.

'''The pictorial style reminded Doc of labels on fruit and vegetable crates''' 
Southern California used to be full of fruit/vegetable orchards. And local farms would develop their own crate labels. [http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=california%20fruit%20crate%20labels&sa=N&tab=wi&um=1 Here are some examples].

==Page 344==
'''St. John's Episcopal Church''' 
The reference may seem odd, as the church is now - and was in 1970 - a very liberal one. Of course, Crocker Fenway would have been married there in the 1940s, before its transformation from "an upper-level parish church controlled by businessmen" had occurred. Since 2008 referred to as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._John's_Cathedral,_Los_Angeles St. John's Cathedral].

==Page 347==
'''and its withdrawal into seemingly unbounded shadow''' 
Apparently another interior space which is larger than it would seem from outside, as on [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_2#Page_21 page 21].

'''water rights ... all of that's ours, it's always been ours''' 
Perhaps a reference to the massive real estate fraud in the 1920's in which the ranchers and farmers of the Owens Valley were scammed out of their water rights by LA's rich and powerful elite, led by the Chandler family. This was the subject of the 1974 neo-noir film Chinatown.

'''We will never run out of you people. The supply is inexhaustible''' 
An echo of this, from page 192: "as long as American life was something to be escaped from, the cartel could always be sure of a bottomless pool of new customers."

==Page 348==
[[File:Patek.jpg|thumb|right|Wikimedia Commons]]
'''Patek Philippe moonphase''' 
An expensive watch, obviously: characteristics include a high value and a very complex and precise mechanism. Crocker Fenway's watch would, today, fetch a significant price: a 1968 watch (with some unusual characteristics) went for over $183,000 at a Christie's auction in November 2008. Older, and particularly rare, models have sold for over a million dollars.

'''Parking lot at the May Company shopping mall...tomorrow evening.''' 
This conversation happens the evening of Wednesday May 6, 1970.

'''Doc brought Denis along''' 
Evening, Thursday May 7, 1970. May 7 is the Feast of the Ascension in 1970. Jesus Christ, having been resurrected, returns bodily to heaven on this day.

==Page 349==
'''1953 Buick Estate Wagon''' 
[[File:1953BuickEstateWagon.jpg|thumb|left|Photo from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buick_Estate Wikipedia]]]

==Page 350==
'''a beat-up El Camino which could only be Bigfoot's''' 
This shows, it seems (though it is not explicitly stated), that Doc's paranoia about the LAPD searching for him in order to recover the heroin (helicopters and so forth) was unnecessary. Bigfoot didn't want to pop Doc for the smack; he wanted to see where the smack would end up, and follow that trail himself.

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==Page 343==
'''a mural depicting the arrival of the Portola expedition in 1769 at a bend of the river near what became downtown L.A.''' 
A real or imagined mural? Could it be somewhat inspired by the [http://www.ci.laguna-hills.ca.us/depts/admin/civic_center_public_art/online_exhibits/council_chamber_murals.asp mural] of Gaspar de Porlolá's expedition that is in the City of Laguna Hills Council Chamber meeting room? Mural by Robert Evans.

'''The pictorial style reminded Doc of labels on fruit and vegetable crates''' 
Southern California used to be full of fruit/vegetable orchards. And local farms would develop their own crate labels. [http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=california%20fruit%20crate%20labels&sa=N&tab=wi&um=1 Here are some examples].

==Page 344==
'''St. John's Episcopal Church''' 
The reference may seem odd, as the church is now - and was in 1970 - a very liberal one. Of course, Crocker Fenway would have been married there in the 1940s, before its transformation from "an upper-level parish church controlled by businessmen" had occurred. Since 2008 referred to as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._John's_Cathedral,_Los_Angeles St. John's Cathedral].

==Page 347==
'''and its withdrawal into seemingly unbounded shadow''' 
Apparently another interior space which is larger than it would seem from outside, as on [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_2#Page_21 page 21].

'''water rights ... all of that's ours, it's always been ours''' 
Perhaps a reference to the massive real estate fraud in the 1920's in which the ranchers and farmers of the Owens Valley were scammed out of their water rights by LA's rich and powerful elite, led by the Chandler family. This was the subject of the 1974 neo-noir film Chinatown.

'''We will never run out of you people. The supply is inexhaustible''' 
An echo of this, from page 192: "as long as American life was something to be escaped from, the cartel could always be sure of a bottomless pool of new customers."

==Page 348==
[[File:Patek.jpg|thumb|right|Wikimedia Commons]]
'''Patek Philippe moonphase''' 
An expensive watch, obviously: characteristics include a high value and a very complex and precise mechanism. Crocker Fenway's watch would, today, fetch a significant price: a 1968 watch (with some unusual characteristics) went for over $183,000 at a Christie's auction in November 2008. Older, and particularly rare, models have sold for over a million dollars.

'''Parking lot at the May Company shopping mall...tomorrow evening.''' 
This conversation happens the evening of Wednesday May 6, 1970.

'''Doc brought Denis along''' 
Evening, Thursday May 7, 1970. May 7 is the Feast of the Ascension in 1970. Jesus Christ, having been resurrected, returns bodily to heaven on this day.

==Page 349==
'''1953 Buick Estate Wagon''' 
[[File:1953BuickEstateWagon.jpg|thumb|left|Photo from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buick_Estate Wikipedia]]]

==Page 350==
'''a beat-up El Camino which could only be Bigfoot's''' 
This shows, it seems (though it is not explicitly stated), that Doc's paranoia about the LAPD searching for him in order to recover the heroin (helicopters and so forth) was unnecessary. Bigfoot didn't want to pop Doc for the smack; he wanted to see where the smack would end up, and follow that trail himself.

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'''a mural depicting the arrival of the Portola expedition in 1769 at a bend of the river near what became downtown L.A.''' 
A real or imagined mural? Could it be somewhat inspired by the [http://www.ci.laguna-hills.ca.us/depts/admin/civic_center_public_art/online_exhibits/council_chamber_murals.asp mural] of Gaspar de Porlolá's expedition that is in the City of Laguna Hills Council Chamber meeting room? Mural by Robert Evans. --[[User:Pschmid1|Pschmid1]] ([[User talk:Pschmid1|talk]]) 19:49, 20 April 2015 (PDT)pschmid1

'''The pictorial style reminded Doc of labels on fruit and vegetable crates''' 
Southern California used to be full of fruit/vegetable orchards. And local farms would develop their own crate labels. [http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=california%20fruit%20crate%20labels&sa=N&tab=wi&um=1 Here are some examples].

==Page 344==
'''St. John's Episcopal Church''' 
The reference may seem odd, as the church is now - and was in 1970 - a very liberal one. Of course, Crocker Fenway would have been married there in the 1940s, before its transformation from "an upper-level parish church controlled by businessmen" had occurred. Since 2008 referred to as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._John's_Cathedral,_Los_Angeles St. John's Cathedral].

==Page 347==
'''and its withdrawal into seemingly unbounded shadow''' 
Apparently another interior space which is larger than it would seem from outside, as on [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_2#Page_21 page 21].

'''water rights ... all of that's ours, it's always been ours''' 
Perhaps a reference to the massive real estate fraud in the 1920's in which the ranchers and farmers of the Owens Valley were scammed out of their water rights by LA's rich and powerful elite, led by the Chandler family. This was the subject of the 1974 neo-noir film Chinatown.

'''We will never run out of you people. The supply is inexhaustible''' 
An echo of this, from page 192: "as long as American life was something to be escaped from, the cartel could always be sure of a bottomless pool of new customers."

==Page 348==
[[File:Patek.jpg|thumb|right|Wikimedia Commons]]
'''Patek Philippe moonphase''' 
An expensive watch, obviously: characteristics include a high value and a very complex and precise mechanism. Crocker Fenway's watch would, today, fetch a significant price: a 1968 watch (with some unusual characteristics) went for over $183,000 at a Christie's auction in November 2008. Older, and particularly rare, models have sold for over a million dollars.

'''Parking lot at the May Company shopping mall...tomorrow evening.''' 
This conversation happens the evening of Wednesday May 6, 1970.

'''Doc brought Denis along''' 
Evening, Thursday May 7, 1970. May 7 is the Feast of the Ascension in 1970. Jesus Christ, having been resurrected, returns bodily to heaven on this day.

==Page 349==
'''1953 Buick Estate Wagon''' 
[[File:1953BuickEstateWagon.jpg|thumb|left|Photo from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buick_Estate Wikipedia]]]

==Page 350==
'''a beat-up El Camino which could only be Bigfoot's''' 
This shows, it seems (though it is not explicitly stated), that Doc's paranoia about the LAPD searching for him in order to recover the heroin (helicopters and so forth) was unnecessary. Bigfoot didn't want to pop Doc for the smack; he wanted to see where the smack would end up, and follow that trail himself.

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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''' (''Gravity's Rainbow'' [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_735-760#Page_755 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 [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Vineland''] and intimated in [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings Kent State shootings]:

"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 the song on YouTube, beginning at 27:50, from Fapardokly's self-titled album. "Come along with me" is part of the chorus and would have surely spoken to Doc as he drives home alone. 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.

 

'''A message from Merrell Fankhauser, leader of Fapardokly...'''

<blockquote>Our mutual friend Charlie Booth told me about the movie being made from the Thomas Pynchon book ''Inherent Vice''. When I read the book I thought it would make a great movie! My 60's group Fapardokly and our song "Supermarket" is mentioned near the end of the book. I would love to have the song in the movie, I own the complete rights and it would be easy to license.

There were other refrences in the book to The Lost Continent of MU, "Wipe Out" and Maui that I found very cosmic. I had a group in the early 70's called MU that moved to Maui in 1973 ! I studied MU for years and explored the island and found several pre Hawaiian ruins in the jungle and a pyramid in Haleakala crater that have been written about in papers and magazines worldwide. Also a refrence was made to a version of "Wipe Out" without the giggle ! That was my 1962 Surf group "The Impacts" Version! Fascinating! For more info on me check [http://www.merrellfankhauser.com my website].</blockquote>

==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 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''' (''Gravity's Rainbow'' [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_735-760#Page_755 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 [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Vineland''] and intimated in [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings Kent State shootings]:

"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 the song on YouTube, beginning at 27:50, from Fapardokly's self-titled album. "Come along with me" is part of the chorus. 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.

 

'''A message from Merrell Fankhauser, leader of Fapardokly...'''

<blockquote>Our mutual friend Charlie Booth told me about the movie being made from the Thomas Pynchon book ''Inherent Vice''. When I read the book I thought it would make a great movie! My 60's group Fapardokly and our song "Supermarket" is mentioned near the end of the book. I would love to have the song in the movie, I own the complete rights and it would be easy to license.

There were other refrences in the book to The Lost Continent of MU, "Wipe Out" and Maui that I found very cosmic. I had a group in the early 70's called MU that moved to Maui in 1973 ! I studied MU for years and explored the island and found several pre Hawaiian ruins in the jungle and a pyramid in Haleakala crater that have been written about in papers and magazines worldwide. Also a refrence was made to a version of "Wipe Out" without the giggle ! That was my 1962 Surf group "The Impacts" Version! Fascinating! For more info on me check [http://www.merrellfankhauser.com my website].</blockquote>

==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...").

{{Inherent Vice PbP}}

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'''Garfield, John (1913-1952)''' 
One of Doc's heroes, Garfield was an American actor especially adept at playing brooding, rebellious, working-class character roles. Garfield is acknowledged as the predecessor of such Method actors as Marlon Brando, James Dean, and Montgomery Clift. He was active in liberal politics, and when called to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, which was empowered to investigate purported communist infiltration in America, Garfield refused to name communist party members or followers, testifying that, indeed, he knew none in the film industry; ''Out of the Fog'', 59; 225; TV Marathon, 254; ''He Ran All the Way'' (1951), 254; and Bigfoot, 269; in Burke Stodger film, ''.45-Caliber Kissoff'', 309; his suit purchased by Doc, 344; ''The Postman Always Rings Twice'' (1946), 344; ''The Sea Wolf'' (1941), 356. Garfield is also name-checked in another contemporary novel, Michael Chabon's ''The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay'' (2000): "Sammy had been in love with men nearly all his life, from his father to Nikola Tesla to John Garfield, whose snarl of derision echoed so clearly in his imagination, taunting Sammy" (372).

'''Gazzoni, Salvatore "Paper Cut"''' 
183; one of Tito Stavrou's creditors

'''Getz, Stan (1927-1991)''' 
American jazz saxophone player. Known as "The Sound" because of his warm, lyrical tone, Getz's prime influence was the wispy, mellow tone of his idol, Lester Young. His 1964 album ''Getz/Gilberto'' with Tom Jobim, João Gilberto and his wife, Astrud Gilberto. "The Girl from Ipanema" from this album won a Grammy Award; one of Coy Harlingen's influences, 37;

'''''Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster'' (1964)''' 
1964 tokusatsu kaiju (Japanese: film about strange beasts) film, and is the 5th film in Toho's Godzilla series. It's the first of the Godzilla series where Godzilla tries to help Japan instead of destroy it, and also features Mothra and Rodan; 281

'''Ghostflower Court''' 
219; "collection of bungalos dating from the fifties" where Doc and Trillium Fortnight stay, in Las Vegas

<div id="gilligan">'''''Gilligan's Island'''''</div>
American TV sitcom originally produced by United Artists Television. It aired for three seasons on the CBS network, from September 26, 1964 to September 4, 1967. The show followed the comic adventures of seven castaways (Gilligan, the Skipper, Thurston Howell, III, Eunice "Lovey" Wentworth Howell, Ginger Grant, the Professor, Mary Ann Summers) as they attempted to survive and ultimately escape from a previously uninhabited island where they were shipwrecked; "was that a diamond ring on Ginger last episode?" 89; "What am I, the Skipper?" 133; ''Godzilligan's Island'', 246; Sauncho's boat, 354; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilligan%27s_Island Wikipedia entry]

'''Gilroy''' 
See [[S#gilroy|Sportello, Gilroy]]

'''Gladys''' 
95; secretary at Gotcha!

'''Glass House''' 
33; 122; police station in the heart of downtown Los Angeles, named after William H. Parker, a former chief of the LAPD. The eight-story structure is situated between Los Angeles Street, First Street, San Pedro Street, and Market Streets and is one block east of City Hall. The detention facility, officially called the Metropolitan Jail, is also most commonly referred to as "Parker Center Jail" and also known as the "Glass House" because of its features large windows. LA's Blacks and Latinos considered Parker a racist pig who led a force of brutal cops that targeted and terrorized the African-American and Latino communities; 137

'''GNASH''' 
100; "Global Network of Anecdotal Surfer Horseshit"

'''Go''' 
A strategic board game for two players. Go is noted for being rich in strategic complexity despite its simple rules. It originated in ancient China over 2,500 years ago; "dollar-a-stone" 81

<div id="godzilla">'''Godzilla'''</div>
7; 10; Enormous, mutant dinosaur who first appeared in the 1954 film ''Gojira'' (English title ''Godzilla, King of the Monsters!'') Godzilla was conceived as a monster created by nuclear explosions and a metaphor for nuclear weapons in general. Over the years, though, the character has lost all political meaning. Godzilligan's Island, 245; Ghidra, the Three-Headed Monster, in which Godzilla appears, 281. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzilla Wikipedia]

'''''Godzilligan's Island''''' 
245; fictional "movie for TV" Doc watches in Las Vegas

'''''Golden Fang, The''''' 
77; big mysterious schooner, aka ''Preserved''; 84; 87; "out of Charlotte Amalie, 90; 92; 109; 119-120; "Indochinese heroin cartel", uses Chick Planet Massage to launder money 159; "six-story-high ''golden fang''!" Corporate HQ, 168; "a syndicate, most of us happen to be dentists, we set it up years ago for tax purposes" 169; ''Procedures Handbook'', dealing with hippies, 170; "if the Golden Fang could get its customers strung out, why not turn around and also sell them a program to help them kick?" 192; 213; in photo in Adrian Prussia's Hall of Justice file, 286; "bunch of honkey dentists" 293; "not only traffick in Enslavement, they peddle the implements of Liberation as well" 294; the person, in Doc's PCP hallucination, 318; dezombified by Zen exorcist (in Doc's dream), 340; put in at San Pedro, 354; abandoned, 358

'''Golden Triangle''' 
One of the most extensive opium-producing areas of Asia and of the world since the 1950s, it is an area of around 350,000 square kilometres that overlaps the mountains of four countries of Southeast Asia: Myanmar (Burma), Laos, Vietnam, and Thailand. There is much evidence that the CIA protected drug lords in the name of national security, and for directly contradicted Drug Enforcement Agency's efforts to interdict major traffickers; ''Golden Fang'' "ran CIA heroin" from, 95; 325

'''''Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The''''' 
204; a 1966 Italian epic spaghetti western film directed by Sergio Leone, starring Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, and Eli Wallach in the title roles.

'''Goofy''' 
28; Walt Disney cartoon character, a dog and one of Mickey Mouse's best friends

'''Gordita Beach''' 
6; fictional Los Angeles beach town where Doc lives and works; according to the article [http://www.theaesthetic.com/NewFiles/pynchon.html "Thomas Pynchon and the South Bay"]: "Pynchon doesn't refer to Manhattan Beach by name. Rather, he uses the name Gordita Beach to refer to his one-time home." On the [[Chapter_21#Page368/369|last two pages]] of ''Inherent Vice'', Doc Sportello is on the Santa Monica freeway which then merges onto the San Diego, heading south. The series of street names and off-ramps points to Manhattan Beach.

And Gordita Beach is one of Zoyd Wheeler's habitats in [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Vineland'']:

:Zoyd was living down south then, sharing a house in Gordita Beach with elements of a surf band he’d been playing keyboard in since junior high, the Corvairs, along with friends more and less transient. The house was so old that all of its termite clauses and code violations had been waived, on the theory that the next moderate act of nature would finish it off. But having been put up back during an era of overdesign, it proved to be sturdier than it looked, with its old stucco eaten at to reveal generations of paint jobs in different beach town pastels, corroded by salt and petrochemical fogs that flowed in the summers onshore up the sand slopes, on up past Sepulveda, often across the then undeveloped fields, to wrap the San Diego Freeway too. ([http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_3#Page_22 p. 22])

The [[C#corvairs|Corvairs surf band]] figures in ''Inherent Vice'', as well, as the band in which Doc's cousin Scott Oof and Elfmont play.

Built on top of one of the "sacred portals of access to the spirit world" 355

'''Gotcha! Searches and Settlements''' 
51; collection agency that hires Doc as a skip-tracer (private investigator or private detective who specializes in finding people who have attempted to disappear) to work of his debt

'''Grande Valse Brillante''' 
220; by Chopin; The Grande Valse brillante in E-flat major (also called Grande Waltz Brillante), Op. 18, was composed by Frédéric Chopin in 1833. It was first published in 1834 and is Chopin's first waltz composition for solo piano. It was often used as incidental music in Brazilian overdubbings of Warner Bros. cartoons such as Bugs Bunny. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLQ-6_OIds4 Have a listen on YouTube...]

'''''Gravity's Rainbow''''' 
shades of Slothrop's desk, 15; "that" - hardons - lighting, 59

'''"Great Pretender, The"''' 
55; a popular song recorded by The Platters and released as a single on November 3, 1955. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtXnUEW_OXw View a 1955 Platters performance of "The Great Pretender" on YouTube...]

<div id="greenmagenta">'''green and magenta'''</div>
Magenta is a brilliant, purple-red dye extracted from coal-tar and named after the Battle of Magenta which was fought in 1859 shortly before the dye was discovered. Green and magenta are complementary colors. They're also the two colors of the neon title on the ''Inherent Vice'' dustjacket. Pynchon uses these colors frequently in his novels; "psychedelic favorites" 14; kimono, 107; Liberace's necktie sequins, 220; clouds of dust, 336; [[Magenta and Green|Read Katherine Hayles' color analysis, in relation to ''Gravity's Rainbow'']]...

'''''Green Acres''''' 
200; American television series starring Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor as a couple who move from New York City to a farm in the country, running from 1965 to 1971.

'''Gummo Marx Way''' 
Remember Milton "Gummo" Marx? He was the fourth-born of the Marx Brothers comedy act (1893-1977) and chose not to become an actor and entertainer. His nickname derives from his enjoying being sneaky backstage, creeping up on others without them knowing (like a gumshoe); "hard-luck boulevard" in Los Angeles, 283-284; 329

'''guns''' 
141; listed; "short-barreled Model 27" 149; Heckler & Koch, 149; Smith, 151; Smith & Wesson, 178; modified AK-47 with an oversize banana clip, 184; Smiths, 186; 201; ".44 Magnum, a Ruger Blackhawk" 250;

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==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.

'''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 of 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 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 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.

'''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 of 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...").

{{Inherent Vice PbP}}

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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 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.

'''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 of 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...").

{{Inherent Vice PbP}}

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==Page 315==
'''still another day of classic day of California sunshine''' 
Back into real calendar time, morning, Tuesday, May 5, 1970.

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

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

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

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

==Page 319==
'''he woke up, mercifully not too many hours later''' 
Afternoon, Tuesday, May 5, 1970.

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

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

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

==Page 327==
'''He lit up one of Puck's prison menthols''' 
This is, it seems to me, a very odd time to be having a smoke, with (potentially) match flare and/or tobacco smell announcing his position when he most wants to be invisible.

'''Some late light off the ocean''' 
Evening, Tuesday May 5, 1970.

==Page 328==
[[File:1965Impala.jpg|thumb|right|1965 Chevrolet Impala, photo by [http://www.flickr.com/photos/braintoad/2687568205/ The Brain Toad / Creative Commons]]]
''''65 Impala'''
 

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

'''The sun was just down'''
Sunset, Tuesday, May 5, 1970.

==Page 332==
'''Herb Alpert arrangement of "Yummy Yummy Yummy"''' 
Thankfully probably a fictional song. Anyone been able to track down a recording? [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herb_alpert Herb Alpert.] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yummy_Yummy_Yummy "Yummy Yummy Yummy"] is [http://www.last.fm/music/The+Residents/_/Hitler+Was+A+Vegetarian covered,] starting at 5:24, of the lengthy "Hitler was a Vegetarian" from the Residents' satirical pop album [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Reich_%27n_Roll The Third Reich 'n Roll.] Not to be missed if you're looking for something to cleanse your palate if you feel like you've listened to just too many of the songs name-checked in the novel, especially since a few of them get worked by the Residents. (By the way, it's part of the soundtrack of [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0304820/ Journey into the Mind of P.] Pynchon and the Residents can go well together.) Finally, forgive me, for the sake of completeness, the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG1SVKipKZE original version.]

==Page 334==
'''Like a record on a turntable''' 
A metaphor which already appeared on page 262 ("as if some stereo needle had been lifted and set back down on some other sentimental oldie on the compilation LP of history.").

==Page 338==
[[File:442 Olds.jpg|thumb|right|1969 442 Olds - Photo by [http://www.flickr.com/photos/dstone7y/1121708840/ dstone7y /Creative Commons]]]
'''442 Olds'''

'''a reasonably dark street''' 
Evening, Tuesday, May 5, 1970.

==Page 339==
'''The bars hadn't closed yet''' 
Late night, Tuesday, May 5, 1970.

'''"'It said on the box it was a television set,' Denis explained."''' 
Bad pun secreted here, one of the most delicious in the book? Stoned Denis and Doc are watching "snow"--slang for heroin and also for a TV "picture" that's not a picture, just black and white fizzy dots (or, in this case, changing light patterns on the plastic wrapping the dope). Two related kinds of addiction and hallucination. An "educational channel" fer sure!

==Page 340==
'''Doc had been on the phone...around noon''' 
Midday Wednesday, May 6, 1970.

'''It was toward sunset''' 
Early evening, May 6, 1970.

==Page 341==
'''way, way too chirpy for this time of the morning''' 
The chirp seems to be a Fenway family characteristic, since Japonica is first introduced on page 170 with "a loud, violent chirp."

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==Page 297==
'''Hermosa . . . Lighthouse''' 
The Lighthouse is/was a famous jazz club, especially in the 1950s. The bassist Howard Rumsey led the house band [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:jjfpxqygld6e~T1 The Lighthouse All-Stars].

==Page 298==
[[File:1956 DeSoto.jpg|thumb|200px|right|1956 De Soto Firedome [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeSoto_(automobile) Wikipedia]]]
'''1956 DeSoto'''
1956 DeSoto Firedome driven by Scottie Ferguson (James Stewart) in the 1958 Alfred Hitchcock classic ''Vertigo''.
 

[[File:Cobra 289.jpg|thumb|200px|right|1964 Cobra 289. Photo from [http://www.flickr.com/photos/geoff_b/2301663863/ Geoff B / Creative Commons]
]]
'''Cobra 289'''
 

[[File: Morgan.jpg|thumb|200px|right|1963 Morgan.]]
'''Morgans from the showroom up in Westwood with hoods held down by leather straps''' 

 
'''Bud Shank''' 
Jazz musician, arranger, and composer, most well known as an alto sax player. Associated with the LA jazz scene since working with Stan Kenton in the 1950s. Also played flute and tenor sax. The famous alto flute solo on The Mamas and the Papas' 1965 hit "California Dreamin'" is his. Died April 2, 2009, several months before ''Inherent Vice'' was published, so this reference may be a last-minute tribute added by Pynchon. Shank's [http://www.budshankalto.com/ webpage] is maintained by the LA Jazz Institute in his honor.

==Page 299==
'''"Drac's a part of the band"''' 
Reference to the 1962 hit single "Monster Mash," recorded originally by Bobby "Boris" Pickett (1938-2007) and the Cryptkickers, and covered by the Beach Boys (1964) and by the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band on ''Tadpoles'' and in 1968 performed it on the British television series ''Do Not Adjust Your Set'' - ("Now everything's cool / Drac's a part of the band / and my monster mash is the hit of the land..."). [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHSCObJvT9M&feature=related Have a listen on YouTube...]

'''Interstellar Overdrive''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_Overdrive Psychedelic rock classic.] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2wud_RqEaM Youtube.] Possible joke here on 'overdrive' since the distance from the intersection of Pier Avenue and the Pacific Coast Highway to LAX is around six miles. Sure, the song is long, about ten minutes, but Doc would have to be speeding like crazy, which isn't mentioned, to make that mileage with time still left on the song. At any rate, significant distance and/or time are casually covered and I'm going with mysterious power of interstellar overdrive giving them a helping hand. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvO1b3f4DGs "Ooo-ooo woo-''oo,'' woo-ooo."]

'''Vibrasonic''' 
Possibly the [http://66.154.44.164/forum/showthread.php?p=4358272 Motorola unit] used to add reverb. [http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=59558 Little more info.] You be the judge if it looks so large as to take up half a trunk.

==Page 300==
'''tempt the hand of fate''' 
A line from "Tears on My Pillow," included in the [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Songs_mentioned_in_Inherent_Vice page] of songs mentioned in the book. The lyric, in context:

:"If we could start anew 
:I wouldn't hesitate 
:I'd gladly take you back 
:And tempt the hand of fate."

==Page 301==
'''reading Herbert Marcuse and Chairman Mao''' 
In other words, learning how to be a leftist, neo-Marxist Communist.
:[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong Mao Zedong], aka "Chairman Mao" led the Communist Party of China and was the leader of the People’s Republic of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976. 
:[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Marcuse Herbert Marcuse] was a philosopher, critical theorist, and member of the neo-Marxist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School Frankfurt School], which is known for its critique of capitalism. He was popular among student radicals in the 1960s.

==Page 303==
''' an enlarged photo of a gigantic monster wave at Makaha last winter with a tiny but instantly recognizable Greg Noll cradled in it like a faithful worshiper in the fist of God.''' 
Apparently there is no photo of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Noll Greg Noll] successfully riding what was then, December 1969, considered to be the biggest wave ever paddled into. There is, however, a painting made after the event [http://www.signaturesgallery.com/uploads/gallery/large.Makaha_print_10x10.jpg here] that looks similar to the one Pynchon described, but probably, I couldn't verify a date, made years after 1970. Noll would have been so easily recognized because he rode with a wider than normal stance, and in black-and-white stripped shorts, as seen in this famous [http://oceanearth.com/oeblog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/noll-at-pipeline.jpg surfing picture.] Oh, nice [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLkbkv8eiWk Youtube] clip about Noll riding Makaha that makes the event sound more than a little Pynchon-esque. Lot of info and links, I know, but this is a huge deal in surfing history.

==Page 310==
'''something about Jan gets a wig''' 
This accurately describes an episode of The Brady Bunch entitled "Will the Real Jan Brady Please Stand Up?" The episode first aired on January 15, 1971.

==Page 311==
''''You're too short for that gesture.'''' 
Line said by George Sanders in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_about_eve "All About Eve."]
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97-clM-NNZQ Youtube] clip, about 3:55 in, worth seeing to give the odd line some context.

==Page 314==
'''Courage, Camille''' 
The same line - set in type the same way, with "Courage" italicized - appears at page 345 of "Against the Day." The reference is discussed in the [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_336-357#Page_345 Against the Day wiki.]

'''Later they went outside''' 
As noted [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_16#Page_281 earlier],
Pynchon has inserted a day in between Monday, May 4, 1970 and Tuesday, May 5. This day runs from the middle of Chapter 16 to the the end of chapter 17, a total of 34 pages, making it the day with the most pages in the book.

The phrase used to introduce the inserted day - [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_16#Page_281 "next day was as they say another day] - echoes a phrase used [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#Page_13 earlier], thus connecting the day on which Doc learns the names of those responsible for the murder that occured on "another" day previously mentioned.

The events of this day are unusual, to say the least:

No reference to time of day is given. As a matter of fact, the one clock mentioned (in the District Attorney's office) is not working.

Doc is given most of the information needed to resolve the mysteries he is working on.

The women Doc encounters during this day act very unusually, in most cases bizarrely.

Finally, a dead President tries to give Doc some advice on how to proceed.

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==Page 297==
'''Hermosa . . . Lighthouse''' 
The Lighthouse is/was a famous jazz club, especially in the 1950s. The bassist Howard Rumsey led the house band [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:jjfpxqygld6e~T1 The Lighthouse All-Stars].

==Page 298==
[[File:1956 DeSoto.jpg|thumb|200px|right|1956 De Soto Firedome [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeSoto_(automobile) Wikipedia]]]
'''1956 DeSoto'''
1956 DeSoto Firedome driven by Scottie Ferguson (James Stewart) in the 1958 Alfred Hitchcock classic ''Vertigo''.
 

[[File:Cobra 289.jpg|thumb|200px|right|1964 Cobra 289. Photo from [http://www.flickr.com/photos/geoff_b/2301663863/ Geoff B / Creative Commons]
]]
'''Cobra 289'''
 

[[File: Morgan.jpg|thumb|200px|right|1963 Morgan.]]
'''Morgans from the showroom up in Westwood with hoods held down by leather straps''' 

 
'''Bud Shank''' 
Jazz musician, arranger, and composer, most well known as an alto sax player. Associated with the LA jazz scene since working with Stan Kenton in the 1950s. Also played flute and tenor sax. The famous alto flute solo on The Mamas and the Papas' 1965 hit "California Dreamin'" is his. Died April 2, 2009, several months before ''Inherent Vice'' was published, so this reference may be a last-minute tribute added by Pynchon. Shank's [http://www.budshankalto.com/ webpage] is maintained by the LA Jazz Institute in his honor.

==Page 299==
'''"Drac's a part of the band"''' 
Reference to the 1962 hit single "Monster Mash," recorded originally by Bobby "Boris" Pickett (1938-2007) and the Cryptkickers, and covered by the Beach Boys (1964) and by the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band on ''Tadpoles'' and in 1968 performed it on the British television series ''Do Not Adjust Your Set'' - ("Now everything's cool / Drac's a part of the band / and my monster mash is the hit of the land..."). [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHSCObJvT9M&feature=related Have a listen on YouTube...]

'''Interstellar Overdrive''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_Overdrive Psychedelic rock classic.] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2wud_RqEaM Youtube.] Possible joke here on 'overdrive' since the distance from the intersection of Pier Avenue and the Pacific Coast Highway to LAX is around six miles. Sure, the song is long, about ten minutes, but Doc would have to be speeding like crazy, which isn't mentioned, to make that mileage with time still left on the song. At any rate, significant distance and/or time are casually covered and I'm going with mysterious power of interstellar overdrive giving them a helping hand. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvO1b3f4DGs "Ooo-ooo woo-''oo,'' woo-ooo."]

'''Virbrasonic''' 
Possibly the [http://66.154.44.164/forum/showthread.php?p=4358272 Motorola unit] used to add reverb. [http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=59558 Little more info.] You be the judge if it looks so large as to take up half a trunk.

==Page 300==
'''tempt the hand of fate''' 
A line from "Tears on My Pillow," included in the [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Songs_mentioned_in_Inherent_Vice page] of songs mentioned in the book. The lyric, in context:

:"If we could start anew 
:I wouldn't hesitate 
:I'd gladly take you back 
:And tempt the hand of fate."

==Page 301==
'''reading Herbert Marcuse and Chairman Mao''' 
In other words, learning how to be a leftist, neo-Marxist Communist.
:[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong Mao Zedong], aka "Chairman Mao" led the Communist Party of China and was the leader of the People’s Republic of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976. 
:[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Marcuse Herbert Marcuse] was a philosopher, critical theorist, and member of the neo-Marxist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School Frankfurt School], which is known for its critique of capitalism. He was popular among student radicals in the 1960s.

==Page 303==
''' an enlarged photo of a gigantic monster wave at Makaha last winter with a tiny but instantly recognizable Greg Noll cradled in it like a faithful worshiper in the fist of God.''' 
Apparently there is no photo of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Noll Greg Noll] successfully riding what was then, December 1969, considered to be the biggest wave ever paddled into. There is, however, a painting made after the event [http://www.signaturesgallery.com/uploads/gallery/large.Makaha_print_10x10.jpg here] that looks similar to the one Pynchon described, but probably, I couldn't verify a date, made years after 1970. Noll would have been so easily recognized because he rode with a wider than normal stance, and in black-and-white stripped shorts, as seen in this famous [http://oceanearth.com/oeblog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/noll-at-pipeline.jpg surfing picture.] Oh, nice [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLkbkv8eiWk Youtube] clip about Noll riding Makaha that makes the event sound more than a little Pynchon-esque. Lot of info and links, I know, but this is a huge deal in surfing history.

==Page 310==
'''something about Jan gets a wig''' 
This accurately describes an episode of The Brady Bunch entitled "Will the Real Jan Brady Please Stand Up?" The episode first aired on January 15, 1971.

==Page 311==
''''You're too short for that gesture.'''' 
Line said by George Sanders in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_about_eve "All About Eve."]
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97-clM-NNZQ Youtube] clip, about 3:55 in, worth seeing to give the odd line some context.

==Page 314==
'''Courage, Camille''' 
The same line - set in type the same way, with "Courage" italicized - appears at page 345 of "Against the Day." The reference is discussed in the [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_336-357#Page_345 Against the Day wiki.]

'''Later they went outside''' 
As noted [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_16#Page_281 earlier],
Pynchon has inserted a day in between Monday, May 4, 1970 and Tuesday, May 5. This day runs from the middle of Chapter 16 to the the end of chapter 17, a total of 34 pages, making it the day with the most pages in the book.

The phrase used to introduce the inserted day - [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_16#Page_281 "next day was as they say another day] - echoes a phrase used [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#Page_13 earlier], thus connecting the day on which Doc learns the names of those responsible for the murder that occured on "another" day previously mentioned.

The events of this day are unusual, to say the least:

No reference to time of day is given. As a matter of fact, the one clock mentioned (in the District Attorney's office) is not working.

Doc is given most of the information needed to resolve the mysteries he is working on.

The women Doc encounters during this day act very unusually, in most cases bizarrely.

Finally, a dead President tries to give Doc some advice on how to proceed.

{{Inherent Vice PbP}}

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{{Inherent Vice PbP Text}}

==Page 297==
'''Hermosa . . . Lighthouse''' 
The Lighthouse is/was a famous jazz club, especially in the 1950s. The bassist Howard Rumsey led the house band [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:jjfpxqygld6e~T1 The Lighthouse All-Stars].

==Page 298==
[[File:1956 DeSoto.jpg|thumb|200px|right|1956 De Soto Firedome [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeSoto_(automobile) Wikipedia]]]
'''1956 DeSoto'''
1956 DeSoto Firedome driven by Scottie Ferguson (James Stewart) in the 1958 Alfred Hitchcock classic ''Vertigo''.
 

[[File:Cobra 289.jpg|thumb|200px|right|1964 Cobra 289. Photo from [http://www.flickr.com/photos/geoff_b/2301663863/ Geoff B / Creative Commons]
]]
'''Cobra 289'''
 

[[File: Morgan.jpg|thumb|200px|right|1963 Morgan.]]
'''Morgans from the showroom up in Westwood with hoods held down by leather straps''' 

 
'''Bud Shank''' 
Jazz musician, arranger, and composer, most well known as an alto sax player. Associated with the LA jazz scene since working with Stan Kenton in the 1950s. Also played flute and tenor sax. The famous alto flute solo on The Mamas and the Papas' 1965 hit "California Dreamin'" is his. Died April 2, 2009, several months before ''Inherent Vice'' was published, so this reference may be a last-minute tribute added by Pynchon. Shank's [webpage http://www.budshankalto.com/] is maintained by the LA Jazz Institute in his honor.

==Page 299==
'''"Drac's a part of the band"''' 
Reference to the 1962 hit single "Monster Mash," recorded originally by Bobby "Boris" Pickett (1938-2007) and the Cryptkickers, and covered by the Beach Boys (1964) and by the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band on ''Tadpoles'' and in 1968 performed it on the British television series ''Do Not Adjust Your Set'' - ("Now everything's cool / Drac's a part of the band / and my monster mash is the hit of the land..."). [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHSCObJvT9M&feature=related Have a listen on YouTube...]

'''Interstellar Overdrive''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_Overdrive Psychedelic rock classic.] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2wud_RqEaM Youtube.] Possible joke here on 'overdrive' since the distance from the intersection of Pier Avenue and the Pacific Coast Highway to LAX is around six miles. Sure, the song is long, about ten minutes, but Doc would have to be speeding like crazy, which isn't mentioned, to make that mileage with time still left on the song. At any rate, significant distance and/or time are casually covered and I'm going with mysterious power of interstellar overdrive giving them a helping hand. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvO1b3f4DGs "Ooo-ooo woo-''oo,'' woo-ooo."]

'''Virbrasonic''' 
Possibly the [http://66.154.44.164/forum/showthread.php?p=4358272 Motorola unit] used to add reverb. [http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=59558 Little more info.] You be the judge if it looks so large as to take up half a trunk.

==Page 300==
'''tempt the hand of fate''' 
A line from "Tears on My Pillow," included in the [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Songs_mentioned_in_Inherent_Vice page] of songs mentioned in the book. The lyric, in context:

:"If we could start anew 
:I wouldn't hesitate 
:I'd gladly take you back 
:And tempt the hand of fate."

==Page 301==
'''reading Herbert Marcuse and Chairman Mao''' 
In other words, learning how to be a leftist, neo-Marxist Communist.
:[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong Mao Zedong], aka "Chairman Mao" led the Communist Party of China and was the leader of the People’s Republic of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976. 
:[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Marcuse Herbert Marcuse] was a philosopher, critical theorist, and member of the neo-Marxist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School Frankfurt School], which is known for its critique of capitalism. He was popular among student radicals in the 1960s.

==Page 303==
''' an enlarged photo of a gigantic monster wave at Makaha last winter with a tiny but instantly recognizable Greg Noll cradled in it like a faithful worshiper in the fist of God.''' 
Apparently there is no photo of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Noll Greg Noll] successfully riding what was then, December 1969, considered to be the biggest wave ever paddled into. There is, however, a painting made after the event [http://www.signaturesgallery.com/uploads/gallery/large.Makaha_print_10x10.jpg here] that looks similar to the one Pynchon described, but probably, I couldn't verify a date, made years after 1970. Noll would have been so easily recognized because he rode with a wider than normal stance, and in black-and-white stripped shorts, as seen in this famous [http://oceanearth.com/oeblog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/noll-at-pipeline.jpg surfing picture.] Oh, nice [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLkbkv8eiWk Youtube] clip about Noll riding Makaha that makes the event sound more than a little Pynchon-esque. Lot of info and links, I know, but this is a huge deal in surfing history.

==Page 310==
'''something about Jan gets a wig''' 
This accurately describes an episode of The Brady Bunch entitled "Will the Real Jan Brady Please Stand Up?" The episode first aired on January 15, 1971.

==Page 311==
''''You're too short for that gesture.'''' 
Line said by George Sanders in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_about_eve "All About Eve."]
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97-clM-NNZQ Youtube] clip, about 3:55 in, worth seeing to give the odd line some context.

==Page 314==
'''Courage, Camille''' 
The same line - set in type the same way, with "Courage" italicized - appears at page 345 of "Against the Day." The reference is discussed in the [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_336-357#Page_345 Against the Day wiki.]

'''Later they went outside''' 
As noted [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_16#Page_281 earlier],
Pynchon has inserted a day in between Monday, May 4, 1970 and Tuesday, May 5. This day runs from the middle of Chapter 16 to the the end of chapter 17, a total of 34 pages, making it the day with the most pages in the book.

The phrase used to introduce the inserted day - [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_16#Page_281 "next day was as they say another day] - echoes a phrase used [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#Page_13 earlier], thus connecting the day on which Doc learns the names of those responsible for the murder that occured on "another" day previously mentioned.

The events of this day are unusual, to say the least:

No reference to time of day is given. As a matter of fact, the one clock mentioned (in the District Attorney's office) is not working.

Doc is given most of the information needed to resolve the mysteries he is working on.

The women Doc encounters during this day act very unusually, in most cases bizarrely.

Finally, a dead President tries to give Doc some advice on how to proceed.

{{Inherent Vice PbP}}

Chapter 17

2010-08-04T19:13:57Z

Pschmid1: /* Page 298 */

{{Inherent Vice PbP Text}}

==Page 297==
'''Hermosa . . . Lighthouse''' 
The Lighthouse is/was a famous jazz club, especially in the 1950s. The bassist Howard Rumsey led the house band [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:jjfpxqygld6e~T1 The Lighthouse All-Stars].

==Page 298==
[[File:1956 DeSoto.jpg|thumb|200px|right|1956 De Soto Firedome [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeSoto_(automobile) Wikipedia]]]
'''1956 DeSoto'''
1956 DeSoto Firedome driven by Scottie Ferguson (James Stewart) in the 1958 Alfred Hitchcock classic ''Vertigo''.
 

[[File:Cobra 289.jpg|thumb|200px|right|1964 Cobra 289. Photo from [http://www.flickr.com/photos/geoff_b/2301663863/ Geoff B / Creative Commons]
]]
'''Cobra 289'''
 

[[File: Morgan.jpg|thumb|200px|right|1963 Morgan.]]
'''Morgans from the showroom up in Westwood with hoods held down by leather straps''' 

 
'''Bud Shank''' 
Jazz musician, arranger, and composer, most well known as an alto sax player. Associated with the LA jazz scene since working with Stan Kenton in the 1950s. Also played flute and tenor sax. The famous alto flute solo on The Mamas and the Papas' 1965 hit "California Dreamin'" is his. Died April 2, 2009, several months before ''Inherent Vice'' was published, so this reference may be a last-minute tribute added by Pynchon. Shank's [webpage][http://www.budshankalto.com/] is maintained by the LA Jazz Institute in his honor.

==Page 299==
'''"Drac's a part of the band"''' 
Reference to the 1962 hit single "Monster Mash," recorded originally by Bobby "Boris" Pickett (1938-2007) and the Cryptkickers, and covered by the Beach Boys (1964) and by the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band on ''Tadpoles'' and in 1968 performed it on the British television series ''Do Not Adjust Your Set'' - ("Now everything's cool / Drac's a part of the band / and my monster mash is the hit of the land..."). [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHSCObJvT9M&feature=related Have a listen on YouTube...]

'''Interstellar Overdrive''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_Overdrive Psychedelic rock classic.] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2wud_RqEaM Youtube.] Possible joke here on 'overdrive' since the distance from the intersection of Pier Avenue and the Pacific Coast Highway to LAX is around six miles. Sure, the song is long, about ten minutes, but Doc would have to be speeding like crazy, which isn't mentioned, to make that mileage with time still left on the song. At any rate, significant distance and/or time are casually covered and I'm going with mysterious power of interstellar overdrive giving them a helping hand. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvO1b3f4DGs "Ooo-ooo woo-''oo,'' woo-ooo."]

'''Virbrasonic''' 
Possibly the [http://66.154.44.164/forum/showthread.php?p=4358272 Motorola unit] used to add reverb. [http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=59558 Little more info.] You be the judge if it looks so large as to take up half a trunk.

==Page 300==
'''tempt the hand of fate''' 
A line from "Tears on My Pillow," included in the [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Songs_mentioned_in_Inherent_Vice page] of songs mentioned in the book. The lyric, in context:

:"If we could start anew 
:I wouldn't hesitate 
:I'd gladly take you back 
:And tempt the hand of fate."

==Page 301==
'''reading Herbert Marcuse and Chairman Mao''' 
In other words, learning how to be a leftist, neo-Marxist Communist.
:[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong Mao Zedong], aka "Chairman Mao" led the Communist Party of China and was the leader of the People’s Republic of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976. 
:[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Marcuse Herbert Marcuse] was a philosopher, critical theorist, and member of the neo-Marxist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School Frankfurt School], which is known for its critique of capitalism. He was popular among student radicals in the 1960s.

==Page 303==
''' an enlarged photo of a gigantic monster wave at Makaha last winter with a tiny but instantly recognizable Greg Noll cradled in it like a faithful worshiper in the fist of God.''' 
Apparently there is no photo of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Noll Greg Noll] successfully riding what was then, December 1969, considered to be the biggest wave ever paddled into. There is, however, a painting made after the event [http://www.signaturesgallery.com/uploads/gallery/large.Makaha_print_10x10.jpg here] that looks similar to the one Pynchon described, but probably, I couldn't verify a date, made years after 1970. Noll would have been so easily recognized because he rode with a wider than normal stance, and in black-and-white stripped shorts, as seen in this famous [http://oceanearth.com/oeblog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/noll-at-pipeline.jpg surfing picture.] Oh, nice [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLkbkv8eiWk Youtube] clip about Noll riding Makaha that makes the event sound more than a little Pynchon-esque. Lot of info and links, I know, but this is a huge deal in surfing history.

==Page 310==
'''something about Jan gets a wig''' 
This accurately describes an episode of The Brady Bunch entitled "Will the Real Jan Brady Please Stand Up?" The episode first aired on January 15, 1971.

==Page 311==
''''You're too short for that gesture.'''' 
Line said by George Sanders in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_about_eve "All About Eve."]
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97-clM-NNZQ Youtube] clip, about 3:55 in, worth seeing to give the odd line some context.

==Page 314==
'''Courage, Camille''' 
The same line - set in type the same way, with "Courage" italicized - appears at page 345 of "Against the Day." The reference is discussed in the [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_336-357#Page_345 Against the Day wiki.]

'''Later they went outside''' 
As noted [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_16#Page_281 earlier],
Pynchon has inserted a day in between Monday, May 4, 1970 and Tuesday, May 5. This day runs from the middle of Chapter 16 to the the end of chapter 17, a total of 34 pages, making it the day with the most pages in the book.

The phrase used to introduce the inserted day - [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_16#Page_281 "next day was as they say another day] - echoes a phrase used [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#Page_13 earlier], thus connecting the day on which Doc learns the names of those responsible for the murder that occured on "another" day previously mentioned.

The events of this day are unusual, to say the least:

No reference to time of day is given. As a matter of fact, the one clock mentioned (in the District Attorney's office) is not working.

Doc is given most of the information needed to resolve the mysteries he is working on.

The women Doc encounters during this day act very unusually, in most cases bizarrely.

Finally, a dead President tries to give Doc some advice on how to proceed.

{{Inherent Vice PbP}}

Chapter 17

2010-08-04T19:11:08Z

Pschmid1: /* Page 298 */

{{Inherent Vice PbP Text}}

==Page 297==
'''Hermosa . . . Lighthouse''' 
The Lighthouse is/was a famous jazz club, especially in the 1950s. The bassist Howard Rumsey led the house band [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:jjfpxqygld6e~T1 The Lighthouse All-Stars].

==Page 298==
[[File:1956 DeSoto.jpg|thumb|200px|right|1956 De Soto Firedome [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeSoto_(automobile) Wikipedia]]]
'''1956 DeSoto'''
1956 DeSoto Firedome driven by Scottie Ferguson (James Stewart) in the 1958 Alfred Hitchcock classic ''Vertigo''.
 

[[File:Cobra 289.jpg|thumb|200px|right|1964 Cobra 289. Photo from [http://www.flickr.com/photos/geoff_b/2301663863/ Geoff B / Creative Commons]
]]
'''Cobra 289'''
 

[[File: Morgan.jpg|thumb|200px|right|1963 Morgan.]]
'''Morgans from the showroom up in Westwood with hoods held down by leather straps''' 

'''Bud Shank''' 
Jazz musician, arranger, and composer, most well known as an alto sax player. Associated with the LA jazz scene since working with Stan Kenton in the 1950s. Also played flute and tenor sax. The famous alto flute solo on The Mamas and the Papas' 1965 hit "California Dreamin'" is his. Died April 2, 2009, several months before ''Inherent Vice'' was published, so this reference may be a last-minute tribute added by Pynchon. Shank's [webpage http://www.budshankalto.com/] is maintained by the LA Jazz Institute in his honor.

==Page 299==
'''"Drac's a part of the band"''' 
Reference to the 1962 hit single "Monster Mash," recorded originally by Bobby "Boris" Pickett (1938-2007) and the Cryptkickers, and covered by the Beach Boys (1964) and by the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band on ''Tadpoles'' and in 1968 performed it on the British television series ''Do Not Adjust Your Set'' - ("Now everything's cool / Drac's a part of the band / and my monster mash is the hit of the land..."). [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHSCObJvT9M&feature=related Have a listen on YouTube...]

'''Interstellar Overdrive''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_Overdrive Psychedelic rock classic.] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2wud_RqEaM Youtube.] Possible joke here on 'overdrive' since the distance from the intersection of Pier Avenue and the Pacific Coast Highway to LAX is around six miles. Sure, the song is long, about ten minutes, but Doc would have to be speeding like crazy, which isn't mentioned, to make that mileage with time still left on the song. At any rate, significant distance and/or time are casually covered and I'm going with mysterious power of interstellar overdrive giving them a helping hand. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvO1b3f4DGs "Ooo-ooo woo-''oo,'' woo-ooo."]

'''Virbrasonic''' 
Possibly the [http://66.154.44.164/forum/showthread.php?p=4358272 Motorola unit] used to add reverb. [http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=59558 Little more info.] You be the judge if it looks so large as to take up half a trunk.

==Page 300==
'''tempt the hand of fate''' 
A line from "Tears on My Pillow," included in the [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Songs_mentioned_in_Inherent_Vice page] of songs mentioned in the book. The lyric, in context:

:"If we could start anew 
:I wouldn't hesitate 
:I'd gladly take you back 
:And tempt the hand of fate."

==Page 301==
'''reading Herbert Marcuse and Chairman Mao''' 
In other words, learning how to be a leftist, neo-Marxist Communist.
:[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong Mao Zedong], aka "Chairman Mao" led the Communist Party of China and was the leader of the People’s Republic of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976. 
:[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Marcuse Herbert Marcuse] was a philosopher, critical theorist, and member of the neo-Marxist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School Frankfurt School], which is known for its critique of capitalism. He was popular among student radicals in the 1960s.

==Page 303==
''' an enlarged photo of a gigantic monster wave at Makaha last winter with a tiny but instantly recognizable Greg Noll cradled in it like a faithful worshiper in the fist of God.''' 
Apparently there is no photo of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Noll Greg Noll] successfully riding what was then, December 1969, considered to be the biggest wave ever paddled into. There is, however, a painting made after the event [http://www.signaturesgallery.com/uploads/gallery/large.Makaha_print_10x10.jpg here] that looks similar to the one Pynchon described, but probably, I couldn't verify a date, made years after 1970. Noll would have been so easily recognized because he rode with a wider than normal stance, and in black-and-white stripped shorts, as seen in this famous [http://oceanearth.com/oeblog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/noll-at-pipeline.jpg surfing picture.] Oh, nice [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLkbkv8eiWk Youtube] clip about Noll riding Makaha that makes the event sound more than a little Pynchon-esque. Lot of info and links, I know, but this is a huge deal in surfing history.

==Page 310==
'''something about Jan gets a wig''' 
This accurately describes an episode of The Brady Bunch entitled "Will the Real Jan Brady Please Stand Up?" The episode first aired on January 15, 1971.

==Page 311==
''''You're too short for that gesture.'''' 
Line said by George Sanders in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_about_eve "All About Eve."]
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97-clM-NNZQ Youtube] clip, about 3:55 in, worth seeing to give the odd line some context.

==Page 314==
'''Courage, Camille''' 
The same line - set in type the same way, with "Courage" italicized - appears at page 345 of "Against the Day." The reference is discussed in the [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_336-357#Page_345 Against the Day wiki.]

'''Later they went outside''' 
As noted [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_16#Page_281 earlier],
Pynchon has inserted a day in between Monday, May 4, 1970 and Tuesday, May 5. This day runs from the middle of Chapter 16 to the the end of chapter 17, a total of 34 pages, making it the day with the most pages in the book.

The phrase used to introduce the inserted day - [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_16#Page_281 "next day was as they say another day] - echoes a phrase used [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#Page_13 earlier], thus connecting the day on which Doc learns the names of those responsible for the murder that occured on "another" day previously mentioned.

The events of this day are unusual, to say the least:

No reference to time of day is given. As a matter of fact, the one clock mentioned (in the District Attorney's office) is not working.

Doc is given most of the information needed to resolve the mysteries he is working on.

The women Doc encounters during this day act very unusually, in most cases bizarrely.

Finally, a dead President tries to give Doc some advice on how to proceed.

{{Inherent Vice PbP}}

Chapter 17

2010-08-04T19:10:13Z

Pschmid1: /* Page 298 */

{{Inherent Vice PbP Text}}

==Page 297==
'''Hermosa . . . Lighthouse''' 
The Lighthouse is/was a famous jazz club, especially in the 1950s. The bassist Howard Rumsey led the house band [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:jjfpxqygld6e~T1 The Lighthouse All-Stars].

==Page 298==
[[File:1956 DeSoto.jpg|thumb|200px|right|1956 De Soto Firedome [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeSoto_(automobile) Wikipedia]]]
'''1956 DeSoto'''
1956 DeSoto Firedome driven by Scottie Ferguson (James Stewart) in the 1958 Alfred Hitchcock classic ''Vertigo''.
 

[[File:Cobra 289.jpg|thumb|200px|right|1964 Cobra 289. Photo from [http://www.flickr.com/photos/geoff_b/2301663863/ Geoff B / Creative Commons]
]]
'''Cobra 289'''
 

[[File: Morgan.jpg|thumb|200px|right|1963 Morgan.]]
'''Morgans from the showroom up in Westwood with hoods held down by leather straps''' 

==Page 299==
'''"Drac's a part of the band"''' 
Reference to the 1962 hit single "Monster Mash," recorded originally by Bobby "Boris" Pickett (1938-2007) and the Cryptkickers, and covered by the Beach Boys (1964) and by the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band on ''Tadpoles'' and in 1968 performed it on the British television series ''Do Not Adjust Your Set'' - ("Now everything's cool / Drac's a part of the band / and my monster mash is the hit of the land..."). [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHSCObJvT9M&feature=related Have a listen on YouTube...]

'''Interstellar Overdrive''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_Overdrive Psychedelic rock classic.] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2wud_RqEaM Youtube.] Possible joke here on 'overdrive' since the distance from the intersection of Pier Avenue and the Pacific Coast Highway to LAX is around six miles. Sure, the song is long, about ten minutes, but Doc would have to be speeding like crazy, which isn't mentioned, to make that mileage with time still left on the song. At any rate, significant distance and/or time are casually covered and I'm going with mysterious power of interstellar overdrive giving them a helping hand. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvO1b3f4DGs "Ooo-ooo woo-''oo,'' woo-ooo."]

'''Virbrasonic''' 
Possibly the [http://66.154.44.164/forum/showthread.php?p=4358272 Motorola unit] used to add reverb. [http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=59558 Little more info.] You be the judge if it looks so large as to take up half a trunk.

==Page 300==
'''tempt the hand of fate''' 
A line from "Tears on My Pillow," included in the [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Songs_mentioned_in_Inherent_Vice page] of songs mentioned in the book. The lyric, in context:

:"If we could start anew 
:I wouldn't hesitate 
:I'd gladly take you back 
:And tempt the hand of fate."

==Page 301==
'''reading Herbert Marcuse and Chairman Mao''' 
In other words, learning how to be a leftist, neo-Marxist Communist.
:[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong Mao Zedong], aka "Chairman Mao" led the Communist Party of China and was the leader of the People’s Republic of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976. 
:[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Marcuse Herbert Marcuse] was a philosopher, critical theorist, and member of the neo-Marxist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School Frankfurt School], which is known for its critique of capitalism. He was popular among student radicals in the 1960s.

==Page 303==
''' an enlarged photo of a gigantic monster wave at Makaha last winter with a tiny but instantly recognizable Greg Noll cradled in it like a faithful worshiper in the fist of God.''' 
Apparently there is no photo of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Noll Greg Noll] successfully riding what was then, December 1969, considered to be the biggest wave ever paddled into. There is, however, a painting made after the event [http://www.signaturesgallery.com/uploads/gallery/large.Makaha_print_10x10.jpg here] that looks similar to the one Pynchon described, but probably, I couldn't verify a date, made years after 1970. Noll would have been so easily recognized because he rode with a wider than normal stance, and in black-and-white stripped shorts, as seen in this famous [http://oceanearth.com/oeblog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/noll-at-pipeline.jpg surfing picture.] Oh, nice [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLkbkv8eiWk Youtube] clip about Noll riding Makaha that makes the event sound more than a little Pynchon-esque. Lot of info and links, I know, but this is a huge deal in surfing history.

==Page 310==
'''something about Jan gets a wig''' 
This accurately describes an episode of The Brady Bunch entitled "Will the Real Jan Brady Please Stand Up?" The episode first aired on January 15, 1971.

==Page 311==
''''You're too short for that gesture.'''' 
Line said by George Sanders in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_about_eve "All About Eve."]
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97-clM-NNZQ Youtube] clip, about 3:55 in, worth seeing to give the odd line some context.

==Page 314==
'''Courage, Camille''' 
The same line - set in type the same way, with "Courage" italicized - appears at page 345 of "Against the Day." The reference is discussed in the [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_336-357#Page_345 Against the Day wiki.]

'''Later they went outside''' 
As noted [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_16#Page_281 earlier],
Pynchon has inserted a day in between Monday, May 4, 1970 and Tuesday, May 5. This day runs from the middle of Chapter 16 to the the end of chapter 17, a total of 34 pages, making it the day with the most pages in the book.

The phrase used to introduce the inserted day - [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_16#Page_281 "next day was as they say another day] - echoes a phrase used [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#Page_13 earlier], thus connecting the day on which Doc learns the names of those responsible for the murder that occured on "another" day previously mentioned.

The events of this day are unusual, to say the least:

No reference to time of day is given. As a matter of fact, the one clock mentioned (in the District Attorney's office) is not working.

Doc is given most of the information needed to resolve the mysteries he is working on.

The women Doc encounters during this day act very unusually, in most cases bizarrely.

Finally, a dead President tries to give Doc some advice on how to proceed.

{{Inherent Vice PbP}}

Chapter 17

2010-08-04T19:09:22Z

Pschmid1: /* Page 297 */

{{Inherent Vice PbP Text}}

==Page 297==
'''Hermosa . . . Lighthouse''' 
The Lighthouse is/was a famous jazz club, especially in the 1950s. The bassist Howard Rumsey led the house band [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:jjfpxqygld6e~T1 The Lighthouse All-Stars].

==Page 298==
'''Bud Shank''' 
Jazz musician, arranger, and composer, most well known as an alto sax player. Associated with the LA jazz scene since working with Stan Kenton in the 1950s. Also played flute and tenor sax. The famous alto flute solo on The Mamas and the Papas' 1965 hit "California Dreamin'" is his. Died April 2, 2009, several months before ''Inherent Vice'' was published, so this reference may be a last-minute tribute added by Pynchon. Shank's [webpage http://www.budshankalto.com/] is maintained by the LA Jazz Institute in his honor.

==Page 298==
[[File:1956 DeSoto.jpg|thumb|200px|right|1956 De Soto Firedome [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeSoto_(automobile) Wikipedia]]]
'''1956 DeSoto'''
1956 DeSoto Firedome driven by Scottie Ferguson (James Stewart) in the 1958 Alfred Hitchcock classic ''Vertigo''.
 

[[File:Cobra 289.jpg|thumb|200px|right|1964 Cobra 289. Photo from [http://www.flickr.com/photos/geoff_b/2301663863/ Geoff B / Creative Commons]
]]
'''Cobra 289'''
 

[[File: Morgan.jpg|thumb|200px|right|1963 Morgan.]]
'''Morgans from the showroom up in Westwood with hoods held down by leather straps''' 

==Page 299==
'''"Drac's a part of the band"''' 
Reference to the 1962 hit single "Monster Mash," recorded originally by Bobby "Boris" Pickett (1938-2007) and the Cryptkickers, and covered by the Beach Boys (1964) and by the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band on ''Tadpoles'' and in 1968 performed it on the British television series ''Do Not Adjust Your Set'' - ("Now everything's cool / Drac's a part of the band / and my monster mash is the hit of the land..."). [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHSCObJvT9M&feature=related Have a listen on YouTube...]

'''Interstellar Overdrive''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_Overdrive Psychedelic rock classic.] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2wud_RqEaM Youtube.] Possible joke here on 'overdrive' since the distance from the intersection of Pier Avenue and the Pacific Coast Highway to LAX is around six miles. Sure, the song is long, about ten minutes, but Doc would have to be speeding like crazy, which isn't mentioned, to make that mileage with time still left on the song. At any rate, significant distance and/or time are casually covered and I'm going with mysterious power of interstellar overdrive giving them a helping hand. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvO1b3f4DGs "Ooo-ooo woo-''oo,'' woo-ooo."]

'''Virbrasonic''' 
Possibly the [http://66.154.44.164/forum/showthread.php?p=4358272 Motorola unit] used to add reverb. [http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=59558 Little more info.] You be the judge if it looks so large as to take up half a trunk.

==Page 300==
'''tempt the hand of fate''' 
A line from "Tears on My Pillow," included in the [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Songs_mentioned_in_Inherent_Vice page] of songs mentioned in the book. The lyric, in context:

:"If we could start anew 
:I wouldn't hesitate 
:I'd gladly take you back 
:And tempt the hand of fate."

==Page 301==
'''reading Herbert Marcuse and Chairman Mao''' 
In other words, learning how to be a leftist, neo-Marxist Communist.
:[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong Mao Zedong], aka "Chairman Mao" led the Communist Party of China and was the leader of the People’s Republic of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976. 
:[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Marcuse Herbert Marcuse] was a philosopher, critical theorist, and member of the neo-Marxist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School Frankfurt School], which is known for its critique of capitalism. He was popular among student radicals in the 1960s.

==Page 303==
''' an enlarged photo of a gigantic monster wave at Makaha last winter with a tiny but instantly recognizable Greg Noll cradled in it like a faithful worshiper in the fist of God.''' 
Apparently there is no photo of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Noll Greg Noll] successfully riding what was then, December 1969, considered to be the biggest wave ever paddled into. There is, however, a painting made after the event [http://www.signaturesgallery.com/uploads/gallery/large.Makaha_print_10x10.jpg here] that looks similar to the one Pynchon described, but probably, I couldn't verify a date, made years after 1970. Noll would have been so easily recognized because he rode with a wider than normal stance, and in black-and-white stripped shorts, as seen in this famous [http://oceanearth.com/oeblog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/noll-at-pipeline.jpg surfing picture.] Oh, nice [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLkbkv8eiWk Youtube] clip about Noll riding Makaha that makes the event sound more than a little Pynchon-esque. Lot of info and links, I know, but this is a huge deal in surfing history.

==Page 310==
'''something about Jan gets a wig''' 
This accurately describes an episode of The Brady Bunch entitled "Will the Real Jan Brady Please Stand Up?" The episode first aired on January 15, 1971.

==Page 311==
''''You're too short for that gesture.'''' 
Line said by George Sanders in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_about_eve "All About Eve."]
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97-clM-NNZQ Youtube] clip, about 3:55 in, worth seeing to give the odd line some context.

==Page 314==
'''Courage, Camille''' 
The same line - set in type the same way, with "Courage" italicized - appears at page 345 of "Against the Day." The reference is discussed in the [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_336-357#Page_345 Against the Day wiki.]

'''Later they went outside''' 
As noted [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_16#Page_281 earlier],
Pynchon has inserted a day in between Monday, May 4, 1970 and Tuesday, May 5. This day runs from the middle of Chapter 16 to the the end of chapter 17, a total of 34 pages, making it the day with the most pages in the book.

The phrase used to introduce the inserted day - [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_16#Page_281 "next day was as they say another day] - echoes a phrase used [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#Page_13 earlier], thus connecting the day on which Doc learns the names of those responsible for the murder that occured on "another" day previously mentioned.

The events of this day are unusual, to say the least:

No reference to time of day is given. As a matter of fact, the one clock mentioned (in the District Attorney's office) is not working.

Doc is given most of the information needed to resolve the mysteries he is working on.

The women Doc encounters during this day act very unusually, in most cases bizarrely.

Finally, a dead President tries to give Doc some advice on how to proceed.

{{Inherent Vice PbP}}

Chapter 16

2010-08-04T16:12:39Z

Pschmid1: /* Page 281 */

{{Inherent Vice PbP Text}}

==Page 275==
'''Rhus Frothingham''' 
"Rhus" is the formal name of the plant genus commonly referred to as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumac Sumac]. It includes various desirable plants, but also Poison Sumac and Poison Ivy. [[Plants of Inherent Vice|See: Plants of Inherent Vice]]

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

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

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

==Page 280==
'''the playoffs, even though it was Eastern Division''' 
The fifth game of the NBA finals was played in New York Monday, May 4, 1970. The Knicks won 107-100 over the Lakers.

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

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

==Page 281==
'''A promo came on for the late movie'''
 Late night, Monday, May 4, 1970.

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

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

'''Next day was as they say another day''' 
Oh, it's another day all right. Pynchon has inserted an "extra" day in between Monday, May 4, 1970 and Tuesday, May 5! This day continues until the end of chapter 17, a total of 34 pages, making it the day with the most pages in the book. Enacts the ''Dark Shadows'' and ''The Time Tunnel'' time-travel ideas already invoked in the novel (128; 261; etc.). Also: Mason's time-travel journey in chapter 56 of ''Mason & Dixon'' into the "Eleven Missing Days" deleted in 1752 from the calendar by eighteen-century reforms, the better to align the calendar's "count" of days with the actual position of the earth in its orbit around the sun. (They'd gotten misaligned over the years due to small inaccuracies in the earlier calendar count, which eventually added up to being almost eleven days "ahead" of time.) Mason's fantastic voyage involved a trip into lost time, days that never existed. The journey Pynchon takes us on in chapters 16 and 17 in ''Inherent Vice'' involves travel into an "extra" day in 1970, one marked by a broken clock (282). Yet in many ways ''Inherent Vice'' is suggesting that this period of the late '60s and early '70s is lost time too--"lost" or misinterpreted in U.S. cultural memory and yet endlessly haunting and secretly revising that recounting of our past. This is a major theme of Pynchon's--see for example Mason's meditation on the possibility of a hidden "Loop" "tangent to the Linear Path of what we imagine as Ordinary Time" (555). Chapters 16 and 17 are the major instance in ''Inherent Vice'' of how its chronology is both very precise and simultaneously blurred and "out of time"--and not just because of Doc's doper's memory.

The phrase echoes Bigfoot's "Tomorrow is another day," from [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#Page_13 page 13].

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 294==
'''Thomas Jefferson''' 
Jefferson also makes a brief appearance on [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_39:_391-398#Page_395 page 395] of ''Mason & Dixon''. The transcription of TJ's language (like "traffick in Enslavement") echoes the faux-vérité 18th-century style of ''Mason and Dixon'' too.

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

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==Page 275==
'''Rhus Frothingham''' 
"Rhus" is the formal name of the plant genus commonly referred to as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumac Sumac]. It includes various desirable plants, but also Poison Sumac and Poison Ivy. [[Plants of Inherent Vice|See: Plants of Inherent Vice]]

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

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

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

==Page 280==
'''the playoffs, even though it was Eastern Division''' 
The fifth game of the NBA finals was played in New York Monday, May 4, 1970. The Knicks won 107-100 over the Lakers.

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

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

==Page 281==
'''A promo came on for the late movie'''
 Late night, Monday, May 4, 1970.

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

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

'''Next day was as they say another day''' 
Oh, it's another day all right. Pynchon has inserted an "extra" day in between Monday, May 4, 1970 and Tuesday, May 5! This day continues until the end of chapter 17, a total of 34 pages, making it the day with the most pages in the book. Enacts the ''Dark Shadows'' and ''The Time Tunnel'' time-travel ideas already invoked in the novel (128 etc). Also: Mason's time-travel journey in ''Mason & Dixon'' into the "eleven lost days" deleted from the calendar by eighteen-century reforms, the better to align the calendar's "count" of days with the actual position of the earth in its orbit around the sun. (They'd gotten misaligned over the years due to small inaccuracies in the earlier calendar count, which eventually added up to being almost eleven days "ahead" of time.) Mason's fantastic voyage involved a trip into lost time. The journey Pynchon takes us on in the second half of chapter 16 and all of chapter 17 in ''Inherent Vice'' involves travel into an "extra" day in 1970. Yet in many ways ''Inherent Vice'' is suggesting that this period of the late '60s and early '70s is lost time too--"lost" or misinterpreted in U.S. cultural memory and yet endlessly haunting and secretly revising that recounting of our past. Chapters 16 and 17 are the major example in ''Inherent Vice'' of how its chronology is both very precise and simultaneously blurred and "out of time"--and not just because of Doc's doper's memory.

The phrase echoes Bigfoot's "Tomorrow is another day," from [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#Page_13 page 13].

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 294==
'''Thomas Jefferson''' 
Jefferson also makes a brief appearance on [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_39:_391-398#Page_395 page 395] of ''Mason & Dixon''. The transcription of TJ's language (like "traffick in Enslavement") echoes the faux-vérité 18th-century style of ''Mason and Dixon'' too.

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

{{Inherent Vice PbP}}

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==Page 275==
'''Rhus Frothingham''' 
"Rhus" is the formal name of the plant genus commonly referred to as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumac Sumac]. It includes various desirable plants, but also Poison Sumac and Poison Ivy. [[Plants of Inherent Vice|See: Plants of Inherent Vice]]

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

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

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

==Page 280==
'''the playoffs, even though it was Eastern Division''' 
The fifth game of the NBA finals was played in New York Monday, May 4, 1970. The Knicks won 107-100 over the Lakers.

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

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

==Page 281==
'''A promo came on for the late movie'''
 Late night, Monday, May 4, 1970.

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

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

'''Next day was as they say another day''' 
Oh, it's another day all right. Pynchon has inserted an "extra" day in between Monday, May 4, 1970 and Tuesday, May 5! This day continues until the end of chapter 17, a total of 34 pages, making it the day with the most pages in the book. Compare Mason's time-travel journey in ''Mason & Dixon'' into the "eleven lost days" deleted from the calendar by eighteen-century reforms, the better to align the calendar's "count" of days with the actual position of the earth in its orbit around the sun. (They'd gotten misaligned over the years due to small inaccuracies in the earlier calendar count, which eventually added up to being almost eleven days "ahead" of time.) Mason's fantastic voyage involved a trip into lost time. The journey Pynchon takes us on in the second half of chapter 16 and all of chapter 17 in ''Inherent Vice'' involves travel into an "extra" day in 1970. Yet in many ways ''Inherent Vice'' is suggesting that this period of the late '60s and early '70s is lost time too--"lost" or misinterpreted in U.S. cultural memory and yet endlessly haunting and secretly revising that recounting of our past. Chapters 16 and 17 are the major example in ''Inherent Vice'' of how its chronology is both very precise and simultaneously blurred and "out of time"--and not just because of Doc's doper's memory.

The phrase echoes Bigfoot's "Tomorrow is another day," from [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#Page_13 page 13].

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 294==
'''Thomas Jefferson''' 
Jefferson also makes a brief appearance on [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_39:_391-398#Page_395 page 395] of ''Mason & Dixon''. The transcription of TJ's language (like "traffick in Enslavement") echoes the faux-vérité 18th-century style of ''Mason and Dixon'' too.

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

{{Inherent Vice PbP}}

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==Page 275==
'''Rhus Frothingham''' 
"Rhus" is the formal name of the plant genus commonly referred to as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumac Sumac]. It includes various desirable plants, but also Poison Sumac and Poison Ivy. [[Plants of Inherent Vice|See: Plants of Inherent Vice]]

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

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

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

==Page 280==
'''the playoffs, even though it was Eastern Division''' 
The fifth game of the NBA finals was played in New York Monday, May 4, 1970. The Knicks won 107-100 over the Lakers.

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

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

==Page 281==
'''A promo came on for the late movie'''
 Late night, Monday, May 4, 1970.

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

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

'''Next day was as they say another day''' 
Oh, it's another day all right. Pynchon has inserted an "extra" day in between Monday, May 4, 1970 and Tuesday, May 5! This day continues until the end of chapter 17, a total of 34 pages, making it the day with the most pages in the book. Compare Mason's time-travel journey in ''Mason & Dixon'' into the "eleven lost days" deleted from the calendar by eighteen-century reforms, the better to align the calendar's "count" of days with the actual position of the earth in its orbit around the sun. (They'd gotten misaligned over the years due to small inaccuracies in the earlier calendar count, which eventually added up to being almost eleven days "ahead" of time.) Mason's fantastic voyage involved a trip into lost time. The journey Pynchon takes us on in this chapter of ''Inherent Vice'' involves travel into an "extra" day in 1970. Yet in many ways ''Inherent Vice'' is suggesting that this period of the late '60s and early '70s is lost time too. Another example of how the chronology of ''Inherent Vice'' is both very precise and simultaneously blurred--and not just because of Doc's "doper's memory."

The phrase echoes Bigfoot's "Tomorrow is another day," from [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#Page_13 page 13].

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 294==
'''Thomas Jefferson''' 
Jefferson also makes a brief appearance on [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_39:_391-398#Page_395 page 395] of ''Mason & Dixon''. The transcription of TJ's language (like "traffick in Enslavement") echoes the faux-vérité 18th-century style of ''Mason and Dixon'' too.

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

{{Inherent Vice PbP}}

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{{Inherent Vice PbP Text}}

==Page 275==
'''Rhus Frothingham''' 
"Rhus" is the formal name of the plant genus commonly referred to as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumac Sumac]. It includes various desirable plants, but also Poison Sumac and Poison Ivy. [[Plants of Inherent Vice|See: Plants of Inherent Vice]]

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

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

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

==Page 280==
'''the playoffs, even though it was Eastern Division''' 
The fifth game of the NBA finals was played in New York Monday, May 4, 1970. The Knicks won 107-100 over the Lakers.

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

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

==Page 281==
'''A promo came on for the late movie'''
 Late night, Monday, May 4, 1970.

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

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

'''Next day was as they say another day''' 
Oh, it's another day all right. Pynchon has inserted an "extra" day in between Monday, May 4, 1970 and Tuesday, May 5! This day continues until the end of chapter 17, a total of 34 pages, making it the day with the most pages in the book. Compare Mason's time-travel journey in ''Mason & Dixon'' into the "eleven lost days" deleted from the calendar by eighteen-century reforms, the better to align the calendar's "count" of days with the actual position of the earth in its orbit around the sun. (They'd gotten misaligned over the years due to small inaccuracies in the earlier calendar count, which eventually added up to being almost eleven days "ahead" of time.) Of course, Mason's fantastic journey involved a trip into "lost" time. The journey Pynchon takes us on in this chapter of ''Inherent Vice'' involves travel into an "extra" day in 1970. Another example of how the chronology of ''Inherent Vice'' is both very precise and simultaneously blurred--and not just because of Doc's "doper's memory."

The phrase echoes Bigfoot's "Tomorrow is another day," from [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#Page_13 page 13].

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 294==
'''Thomas Jefferson''' 
Jefferson also makes a brief appearance on [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_39:_391-398#Page_395 page 395] of ''Mason & Dixon''. The transcription of TJ's language (like "traffick in Enslavement") echoes the faux-vérité 18th-century style of ''Mason and Dixon'' too.

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

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'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>''' 

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

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

More info at [[Inherent Vice cover analysis]]

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

==Epigraph==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[[image:afro-pick.jpg|right|120px|thumb|caption|'fro pick]]''''fro pick in his baggies for protection''' 
An "Afro" pick, aka a comb for the Afro hairstyle; this doesn't necessarily mean Doc has an Afro, only that he borrowed one "for protection" because they generally had fairly sharp metal tines. [But Tariq Khalil on p. 14 stares at Doc's "Afro." TRP notes that his stare, "under different circumstances," would be "offensive"--whatever that may mean.]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Bigfoot Bjornsen'''

Bjornsen="son of the bear" in Swedish and Norwegian. The Old English equivalent of Bjorn is "Beorn", the name of the shapeshifter in ''The Hobbit'' who assumes the form of a bear. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beorn]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Gottlieb machines''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlieb Gottlieb] is a corporation that makes pinball machines and arcade games. Pynchon has a history with pinball tables going back at least as far as Gravity's Rainbow.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Tomorrow is another day''' 
For those who don't mind spoilers, see [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_16#Page_281 later annotation]. Bigfoot's clichéd quotation is also the slogan of one of the most famous characters in U.S. literature, Scarlett O'Hara, the heroine of Margaret Mitchell's ''Gone With the Wind'' (1936). Needless to say, in the universe of pop culture allusions in ''Inherent Vice'', this one is definitely an outlier, one of the weirdest, though Mitchell's novel (and the even more popular movie based on it [1939]) were still popular in the '50s and '60s, especially among older generations. The quotation definitely establishes Bigfoot's cultural taste as being anomalous to the world of Doc and Gordita Beach.

'''stewardii''' 
If the Italianesque "stewardi" is being suggested by TRP as the plural of stewardess, what is "stewardii"--the plural of a plural? Definitely some comic linguistic play going on here, working out an alternative to to the clunky "stewardesses." Or could this refer to male airline attendants, "stewards" in the plural in non-Pynchonian parlance? Probably not, given that it's 1970 and airline attendants then were all female. Just a few fun things to think about while you're parsing the long list of all those waiting in line....

'''vegetarian pregnancy''' 
What's that? Pregnant women who are vegetarians and believe they need special "vitamin" supplements?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(So did Cormac McCarthy, who used a slightly different model, a light blue Olivetti Lettera 32, to type all of his novels from ''The Orchard Keeper'' to ''The Road''! McCarthy bought his Olivetti for $50 at a Knoxville Tennessee pawnshop in 1963. It was sold for over $250,000 at auction in 2009, with proceeds going to the Santa Fe Institute, a nonprofit scientific research organization. Wonder what the future of TRP's Olivetti will be.)

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

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

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

==Page 18==
'''"I counted."''' 
What does Tariq mean?

"As Sledge said, you are a crazy white motherfucker. I counted, and there is one of you."

Chapter 1

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'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>''' 

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

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

More info at [[Inherent Vice cover analysis]]

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

==Epigraph==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[[image:afro-pick.jpg|right|120px|thumb|caption|'fro pick]]''''fro pick in his baggies for protection''' 
An "Afro" pick, aka a comb for the Afro hairstyle; this doesn't necessarily mean Doc has an Afro, only that he borrowed one "for protection" because they generally had fairly sharp metal tines. [But Tariq Khalil on p. 14 stares at Doc's "Afro." TRP notes that his stare, "under different circumstances," would be "offensive"--whatever that may mean.]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Bigfoot Bjornsen'''

Bjornsen="son of the bear" in Swedish and Norwegian. The Old English equivalent of Bjorn is "Beorn", the name of the shapeshifter in ''The Hobbit'' who assumes the form of a bear. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beorn]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Gottlieb machines''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlieb Gottlieb] is a corporation that makes pinball machines and arcade games. Pynchon has a history with pinball tables going back at least as far as Gravity's Rainbow.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''stewardii''' 
If the Italianesque "stewardi" is being suggested by TRP as the plural of stewardess, what is "stewardii"--the plural of a plural? Definitely some comic linguistic play going on here, working out an alternative to to the clunky "stewardesses." Or could this refer to male airline attendants, "stewards" in the plural in non-Pynchonian parlance? Probably not, given that it's 1970 and airline attendants then were all female. Just a few fun things to think about while you're parsing the long list of all those waiting in line....

'''vegetarian pregnancy''' 
What's that? Pregnant women who are vegetarians and believe they need special "vitamin" supplements?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(So did Cormac McCarthy, who used a slightly different model, a light blue Olivetti Lettera 32, to type all of his novels from ''The Orchard Keeper'' to ''The Road''! McCarthy bought his Olivetti for $50 at a Knoxville Tennessee pawnshop in 1963. It was sold for over $250,000 at auction in 2009, with proceeds going to the Santa Fe Institute, a nonprofit scientific research organization. Wonder what the future of TRP's Olivetti will be.)

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

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

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

==Page 18==
'''"I counted."''' 
What does Tariq mean?

"As Sledge said, you are a crazy white motherfucker. I counted, and there is one of you."

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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.

'''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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'''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 signifies Denis' own spaciness, hardly helpful to Doc trying to get his space-time bearings here.]

'''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.

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

'''Manhatten 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 signifies Denis' own spaciness, hardly helpful to Doc trying to get his space-time bearings here.]

'''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.

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

==Page 256==
'''Manhatten 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 signifies Denis' own spaciness, hardly helpful to Doc trying to get his space-time bearings here.]

'''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.

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

==Page 256==
Manhatten Beach
 Compare the parallel universes that fascinate viewers of the TV soap ''Dark Shadows'', referenced earlier (128, etc.). Manhattan Beach also happens to be the town where Pynchon lived for many years in the 1960s and early 1970s while working on ''Gravity's Rainbow''.

==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 signifies Denis' own spaciness, hardly helpful to Doc trying to get his space-time bearings here.]

'''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.

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

==Page 256==
Compare the parallel universes that fascinate viewers of the TV soap ''Dark Shadows'', referenced earlier ().

==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 signifies Denis' own spaciness, hardly helpful to Doc trying to get his space-time bearings here.]

'''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.

'''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 235==
'''Kismet'''
means Fate or fortune, but note also the other meanings below connected both to the history of the Vegas strip detailed here and to a certain earlier novel by Mr. Pynchon with "Lot" in the title: 
''Turkish, from Persian qismat; from Arabic qisma, lot; from qasama, to divide.''

'''"page right out of history," as the Flintstones might say''' 
''The Flintstones'' is animated American television sitcom that ran from 1960 to 1966 on ABC, produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. ''The Flintstones'' theme begins:

:Flintstones. Meet the Flintstones. 
:They're the modern stone age family. 
:From the town of Bedrock, 
:They're a page right out of history.

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s13X66BFd8 Have a listen on YouTube...]

==Page 237==
'''Qiana minidress''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qiana Qiana]: silky nylon made by DuPont that swept the fashion world in the 1970s. Fake-silk shiny material often used in bold patterns and, yes, disco-clothing/costumes. Difficult to tailor, apparently. Trust me, you'll know it when you see it.

'''Wrong shoes.''' 
As Doc himself pointed out on page 21, when Jade asked if he was a cop.

==Page 238==
'''lines of latitude''' 
Impossible not to think of ''Mason & Dixon'' here.

'''bespoke suit''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bespoke Haute couture for men.] This could be a very expensive suit considering it was custom made for the individual, starting from hand-picked fabrics, and "created without use of a pre-existing pattern." Sign of a man who's really into suits, in other words.

'''Aimee Semple McPherson-type''' 
Evangelist, very popular in the 20's and 30's, founder of the Foursquare Church.
She's mentioned here because she was allegedly abducted, only to escape several days later and stumble out of the Arizona desert. But her stories had some holes and raised a lot of questions. Read more [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aimee_Semple_Mcpherson#Reported_abduction here].

==Page 239==
'''gumsandal''' 
Obvious joke on a hippie, sandal wearing, private investigator, but also, just perhaps, with a hint of Dashiel Hammett's infamous [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gunsel 'gunsel.'] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjWKPdDk0_U Listen] to Pynchon himself say 'gumsandal' on the video promo to Inherent Vice.

'''Marty Robbins'd call ''foul evil deeds.''''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marty_Robbins Marty Robbins'] hit country song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bwoGbpYXRw El Paso.]

==Page 244==
'''Casey Kasem's Saturday-morning Shaggy voice''' 
That's right. Legendary radio host [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_Kasem Casey Kasem] was the voice of Shaggy on the original ''Scooby Doo'' cartoon, which premiered in 1969. How many Scooby Doo references does this make?

==Page 245==
'''settled in in front of ''All-Nite Freaky Features''''' 
Late night, Wednesday, April 29, 1970.

==Page 246==
'''awakening next morning to Henry Kissinger''' 
Morning, Thursday, April 30, 1970

==Page 247==
'''tiptoein through no tulips''' 
Another reference to Tiny Tim.

==Page 248==
'''et cetera et cetera, and so forth as the King of Siam always sez''' 
In the 1956 film ''The King and I'', Yul Brynner, who played King Mongkut of Siam, repeatedly used the phrase "et cetera, et cetera, et cetera" to characterize the King as wanting to impress with his great knowledge of many things and his importance in not having to detail them. This was based upon the usage in the book ''Anna and the King of Siam'' which related the real king's playful interest in numerous things, with the phrase, "&c, &c" (used often by Pynchon).

'''Evening came, taking everybody by surprise.''' 
Evening, Thursday, April 30,1970.

==Page 249==

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

'''Bessie Smith''' 
Smith (1894–1937) was an American blues singer. Sometimes referred to as "The Empress of the Blues," she is often regarded as one of the greatest singers of her era and a major influence on subsequent jazz vocalists. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Smith Wikipedia]

'''''rembetissas''''' 
female singers of Rebetiko music (see Rosa Eskenazi above)

'''and in first light got to the turnoff''' 
Dawn, Friday, May 1, 1970.

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'''Romex''' 
According to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romex Wikipedia:] A trademarked brand of power cable, often used in a generic sense to refer to any non-metallic sheathed electrical cable.

'''Riggs Warbling with a couple weeks' start on a beard''' 
I'm hoping that this will help to connect the timelines of the first and second halves of the book.

==Page 251==
'''more space, judging from the outside, than there could possibly be in here.''' 
Remember the [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_35:_349-361#Page_354 house and the carriage from ''Mason & Dixon'']?

==Page 253==
'''They left him watching ''Let's Make a Deal'''''
 Midday, Friday, May 1, 1970.

'''WELCOME TOOBFREEX! BEST CABLE IN TOWN!'''''
 "[T]ime-zone issues" and "a strange hiccup in space-time" indeed. The date is 1970 and cable TV is rare and usually not so encyclopedic in its offerings as Doc finds available from this motel. According to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_television_in_the_United_States Wikipedia on U.S. cable TV history], "In 1975, HBO (Home Box Office) was the first cable network to be delivered nationwide by satellite transmission. Prior to this, starting in 1972, it had been quietly providing pay programming to CATV systems in Pennsylvania and New York, using microwave technology for transmission. HBO was also the first true premium cable (or "pay-cable") network. However, there were notable precursors to premium cable in the pay-television industry that operated during the 1950s and 1960s (with a few systems lingering until 1980)." Via this mysterious motel's own version of premium cable, then, Doc seems to have entered a worm-hole in Time and traveled into the future, allowing him to preview the explosion of cable TV offerings for premium subscribers (including re-runs of favorite shows from the '50s and '60s) that proliferated only well after 1970. This time-travel moment enables Pynchon to revel in the great cornucopia of "video universe" references that spills out onto the next page. But the tone of the passage darkens considerably, despite Doc being mesmerized by cable's illusion of infinite choice and perfect reception/recall (vs. the lousy reception on Rigg's portable black and white TV). Doc senses uneasily that a "parenthesis" in time of what he thought was freedom may be closing, or has already closed....

==Page 254==
'''Ya gonna eat dis toikey!''' 
As [http://www.theauteurs.com/notebook/posts/983 Glenn Kenny] points out, the actual quote is "Cawve da toikey." Was it Pynchon's intention to misquote or a lapse in memory?

'''...Toobfreex at play in the video universe...stubbing it out for good.''' 
Possible statement of the Inherent Vice that closed "this little parenthesis of light", the Psychedelic Sixties?

'''the tropic isle''' 
"Gilligan's Island" leads, of course, this list of '50s & '60s TV shows

'''the Long Branch Saloon''' 
"Miss Kitty" Russell's saloon in Dodge City, KS in the long-running "Gunsmoke" [http://www.jamesarness.com/gunsmoke.htm more info here]

'''the Starship Enterprise''' 
Captain Kirk's ship on "Star Trek", the cancellation of which sparks protests earlier in the book

'''Hawaiian crime fantasies''' 
"Hawaii Five-0"
[http://www.mjq.net/fiveo/ more info here]

'''cute kids...with invisible audiences''' 
Is there anything more more of a "low level bummer" about television than the laugh track? In later decades, it was sometimes replaced by a live audience, and more recently by comedies with neither.
[http://www.tvparty.com/laugh.html for a defense of the "laugh track"]

'''a slave girl in a bottle''' 
Barbara Eden as Jeannie in "I Dream of Jeannie"
[http://www.idreamofjeannie.com/ coming 11/09 on DVD]

'''and Arnold the Pig''' 
Fred and Doris Zifel's pig on "Green Acres"
[http://www.maggiore.net/greenacres/ more info here]

==Page 255==

'''...how a certain hand might reach terribly out of the darkness and reclaim the time, easy as taking a joint from a doper and stubbing it out for good.''' 
Can't help thinking about the great [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_and_Loathing_in_Las_Vegas#The_.22wave_speech.22 'wave speech'] from Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas." Worth reading/watching/listening to (pick your format) alongside of "Inherent Vice." [http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=23451 Video clip] of Depp reading from it.

'''Doc didn't fall asleep until close to dawn'''
 Early morning, Saturday, May 2, 1970.

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==Page 235==
'''Kismet'''
means Fate or fortune, but note also the other meanings below connected both to the history of the Vegas strip detailed here and to a certain earlier novel by Mr. Pynchon with "Lot" in the title: 
''Turkish, from Persian qismat; from Arabic qisma, lot; from qasama, to divide.''

'''"page right out of history," as the Flintstones might say''' 
''The Flintstones'' is animated American television sitcom that ran from 1960 to 1966 on ABC, produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. ''The Flintstones'' theme begins:

:Flintstones. Meet the Flintstones. 
:They're the modern stone age family. 
:From the town of Bedrock, 
:They're a page right out of history.

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s13X66BFd8 Have a listen on YouTube...]

==Page 237==
'''Qiana minidress''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qiana Qiana]: silky nylon made by DuPont that swept the fashion world in the 1970s. Fake-silk shiny material often used in bold patterns and, yes, disco-clothing/costumes. Difficult to tailor, apparently. Trust me, you'll know it when you see it.

'''Wrong shoes.''' 
As Doc himself pointed out on page 21, when Jade asked if he was a cop.

==Page 238==
'''lines of latitude''' 
Impossible not to think of ''Mason & Dixon'' here.

'''bespoke suit''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bespoke Haute couture for men.] This could be a very expensive suit considering it was custom made for the individual, starting from hand-picked fabrics, and "created without use of a pre-existing pattern." Sign of a man who's really into suits, in other words.

'''Aimee Semple McPherson-type''' 
Evangelist, very popular in the 20's and 30's, founder of the Foursquare Church.
She's mentioned here because she was allegedly abducted, only to escape several days later and stumble out of the Arizona desert. But her stories had some holes and raised a lot of questions. Read more [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aimee_Semple_Mcpherson#Reported_abduction here].

==Page 239==
'''gumsandal''' 
Obvious joke on a hippie, sandal wearing, private investigator, but also, just perhaps, with a hint of Dashiel Hammett's infamous [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gunsel 'gunsel.'] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjWKPdDk0_U Listen] to Pynchon himself say 'gumsandal' on the video promo to Inherent Vice.

'''Marty Robbins'd call ''foul evil deeds.''''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marty_Robbins Marty Robbins'] hit country song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bwoGbpYXRw El Paso.]

==Page 244==
'''Casey Kasem's Saturday-morning Shaggy voice''' 
That's right. Legendary radio host [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_Kasem Casey Kasem] was the voice of Shaggy on the original ''Scooby Doo'' cartoon, which premiered in 1969. How many Scooby Doo references does this make?

==Page 245==
'''settled in in front of ''All-Nite Freaky Features''''' 
Late night, Wednesday, April 29, 1970.

==Page 246==
'''awakening next morning to Henry Kissinger''' 
Morning, Thursday, April 30, 1970

==Page 247==
'''tiptoein through no tulips''' 
Another reference to Tiny Tim.

==Page 248==
'''et cetera et cetera, and so forth as the King of Siam always sez''' 
In the 1956 film ''The King and I'', Yul Brynner, who played King Mongkut of Siam, repeatedly used the phrase "et cetera, et cetera, et cetera" to characterize the King as wanting to impress with his great knowledge of many things and his importance in not having to detail them. This was based upon the usage in the book ''Anna and the King of Siam'' which related the real king's playful interest in numerous things, with the phrase, "&c, &c" (used often by Pynchon).

'''Evening came, taking everybody by surprise.''' 
Evening, Thursday, April 30,1970.

==Page 249==

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

'''Bessie Smith''' 
Smith (1894–1937) was an American blues singer. Sometimes referred to as "The Empress of the Blues," she is often regarded as one of the greatest singers of her era and a major influence on subsequent jazz vocalists. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Smith Wikipedia]

'''''rembetissas''''' 
female singers of Rebetiko music (see Rosa Eskenazi above)

'''and in first light got to the turnoff''' 
Dawn, Friday, May 1, 1970.

==Page 250==

'''Romex''' 
According to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romex Wikipedia:] A trademarked brand of power cable, often used in a generic sense to refer to any non-metallic sheathed electrical cable.

'''Riggs Warbling with a couple weeks' start on a beard''' 
I'm hoping that this will help to connect the timelines of the first and second halves of the book.

==Page 251==
'''more space, judging from the outside, than there could possibly be in here.''' 
Remember the [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_35:_349-361#Page_354 house and the carriage from ''Mason & Dixon'']?

==Page 253==
'''They left him watching ''Let's Make a Deal'''''
 Midday, Friday, May 1, 1970.

'''WELCOME TOOBFREEX! BEST CABLE IN TOWN!'''''
 "[T]ime-zone issues" and "a strange hiccup in space-time" indeed. The date is 1970 and cable TV is rare and usually not so encyclopedic in its offerings as Doc finds available from this motel. According to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_television_in_the_United_States Wikipedia on U.S. cable TV history], "In 1975, HBO (Home Box Office) was the first cable network to be delivered nationwide by satellite transmission. Prior to this, starting in 1972, it had been quietly providing pay programming to CATV systems in Pennsylvania and New York, using microwave technology for transmission. HBO was also the first true premium cable (or "pay-cable") network. However, there were notable precursors to premium cable in the pay-television industry that operated during the 1950s and 1960s (with a few systems lingering until 1980)." Via this mysterious motel's own version of premium cable, then, Doc seems to have entered a worm-hole in Time and traveled into the future, allowing him to preview the explosion of cable TV offerings for premium subscribers (including re-runs of favorite shows from the '50s and '60s) that proliferated only well after 1970. This time-travel moment enables Pynchon to revel in the great cornucopia of "video universe" references that spills out onto the next page. But the tone of the passage darkens considerably, despite Doc being mesmerized by cable's illusion of infinite choice and perfect reception/recall (vs. the lousy reception on Rigg's portable black and white TV). Doc senses uneasily that a "parenthesis" in time of what he thought was freedom may be closing, or has already closed.... Such moments are very similar to those experienced by the characters that John Garfield plays (see the allusion on the very next page).

==Page 254==
'''Ya gonna eat dis toikey!''' 
As [http://www.theauteurs.com/notebook/posts/983 Glenn Kenny] points out, the actual quote is "Cawve da toikey." Was it Pynchon's intention to misquote or a lapse in memory?

'''...Toobfreex at play in the video universe...stubbing it out for good.''' 
Possible statement of the Inherent Vice that closed "this little parenthesis of light", the Psychedelic Sixties?

'''the tropic isle''' 
"Gilligan's Island" leads, of course, this list of '50s & '60s TV shows

'''the Long Branch Saloon''' 
"Miss Kitty" Russell's saloon in Dodge City, KS in the long-running "Gunsmoke" [http://www.jamesarness.com/gunsmoke.htm more info here]

'''the Starship Enterprise''' 
Captain Kirk's ship on "Star Trek", the cancellation of which sparks protests earlier in the book

'''Hawaiian crime fantasies''' 
"Hawaii Five-0"
[http://www.mjq.net/fiveo/ more info here]

'''cute kids...with invisible audiences''' 
Is there anything more more of a "low level bummer" about television than the laugh track? In later decades, it was sometimes replaced by a live audience, and more recently by comedies with neither.
[http://www.tvparty.com/laugh.html for a defense of the "laugh track"]

'''a slave girl in a bottle''' 
Barbara Eden as Jeannie in "I Dream of Jeannie"
[http://www.idreamofjeannie.com/ coming 11/09 on DVD]

'''and Arnold the Pig''' 
Fred and Doris Zifel's pig on "Green Acres"
[http://www.maggiore.net/greenacres/ more info here]

==Page 255==

'''...how a certain hand might reach terribly out of the darkness and reclaim the time, easy as taking a joint from a doper and stubbing it out for good.''' 
Can't help thinking about the great [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_and_Loathing_in_Las_Vegas#The_.22wave_speech.22 'wave speech'] from Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas." Worth reading/watching/listening to (pick your format) alongside of "Inherent Vice." [http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=23451 Video clip] of Depp reading from it.

'''Doc didn't fall asleep until close to dawn'''
 Early morning, Saturday, May 2, 1970.

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==Page 235==
'''Kismet'''
means Fate or fortune, but note also the other meanings below connected both to the history of the Vegas strip detailed here and to a certain earlier novel by Mr. Pynchon with "Lot" in the title: 
''Turkish, from Persian qismat; from Arabic qisma, lot; from qasama, to divide.''

'''"page right out of history," as the Flintstones might say''' 
''The Flintstones'' is animated American television sitcom that ran from 1960 to 1966 on ABC, produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. ''The Flintstones'' theme begins:

:Flintstones. Meet the Flintstones. 
:They're the modern stone age family. 
:From the town of Bedrock, 
:They're a page right out of history.

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s13X66BFd8 Have a listen on YouTube...]

==Page 237==
'''Qiana minidress''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qiana Qiana]: silky nylon made by DuPont that swept the fashion world in the 1970s. Fake-silk shiny material often used in bold patterns and, yes, disco-clothing/costumes. Difficult to tailor, apparently. Trust me, you'll know it when you see it.

'''Wrong shoes.''' 
As Doc himself pointed out on page 21, when Jade asked if he was a cop.

==Page 238==
'''lines of latitude''' 
Impossible not to think of ''Mason & Dixon'' here.

'''bespoke suit''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bespoke Haute couture for men.] This could be a very expensive suit considering it was custom made for the individual, starting from hand-picked fabrics, and "created without use of a pre-existing pattern." Sign of a man who's really into suits, in other words.

'''Aimee Semple McPherson-type''' 
Evangelist, very popular in the 20's and 30's, founder of the Foursquare Church.
She's mentioned here because she was allegedly abducted, only to escape several days later and stumble out of the Arizona desert. But her stories had some holes and raised a lot of questions. Read more [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aimee_Semple_Mcpherson#Reported_abduction here].

==Page 239==
'''gumsandal''' 
Obvious joke on a hippie, sandal wearing, private investigator, but also, just perhaps, with a hint of Dashiel Hammett's infamous [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gunsel 'gunsel.'] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjWKPdDk0_U Listen] to Pynchon himself say 'gumsandal' on the video promo to Inherent Vice.

'''Marty Robbins'd call ''foul evil deeds.''''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marty_Robbins Marty Robbins'] hit country song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bwoGbpYXRw El Paso.]

==Page 244==
'''Casey Kasem's Saturday-morning Shaggy voice''' 
That's right. Legendary radio host [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_Kasem Casey Kasem] was the voice of Shaggy on the original ''Scooby Doo'' cartoon, which premiered in 1969. How many Scooby Doo references does this make?

==Page 245==
'''settled in in front of ''All-Nite Freaky Features''''' 
Late night, Wednesday, April 29, 1970.

==Page 246==
'''awakening next morning to Henry Kissinger''' 
Morning, Thursday, April 30, 1970

==Page 247==
'''tiptoein through no tulips''' 
Another reference to Tiny Tim.

==Page 248==
'''et cetera et cetera, and so forth as the King of Siam always sez''' 
In the 1956 film ''The King and I'', Yul Brynner, who played King Mongkut of Siam, repeatedly used the phrase "et cetera, et cetera, et cetera" to characterize the King as wanting to impress with his great knowledge of many things and his importance in not having to detail them. This was based upon the usage in the book ''Anna and the King of Siam'' which related the real king's playful interest in numerous things, with the phrase, "&c, &c" (used often by Pynchon).

'''Evening came, taking everybody by surprise.''' 
Evening, Thursday, April 30,1970.

==Page 249==

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

'''Bessie Smith''' 
Smith (1894–1937) was an American blues singer. Sometimes referred to as "The Empress of the Blues," she is often regarded as one of the greatest singers of her era and a major influence on subsequent jazz vocalists. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Smith Wikipedia]

'''''rembetissas''''' 
female singers of Rebetiko music (see Rosa Eskenazi above)

'''and in first light got to the turnoff''' 
Dawn, Friday, May 1, 1970.

==Page 250==

'''Romex''' 
According to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romex Wikipedia:] A trademarked brand of power cable, often used in a generic sense to refer to any non-metallic sheathed electrical cable.

'''Riggs Warbling with a couple weeks' start on a beard''' 
I'm hoping that this will help to connect the timelines of the first and second halves of the book.

==Page 251==
'''more space, judging from the outside, than there could possibly be in here.''' 
Remember the [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_35:_349-361#Page_354 house and the carriage from ''Mason & Dixon'']?

==Page 253==
'''They left him watching ''Let's Make a Deal'''''
 Midday, Friday, May 1, 1970.

'''WELCOME TOOBFREEX! BEST CABLE IN TOWN!'''''
 "[T]ime-zone issues" and "a strange hiccup in space-time" indeed. The date is 1970 and cable TV is rare and usually not so encyclopedic in its offerings as Doc finds available from this motel. According to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_television_in_the_United_States Wikipedia on U.S. cable TV history], "In 1975, HBO (Home Box Office) was the first cable network to be delivered nationwide by satellite transmission. Prior to this, starting in 1972, it had been quietly providing pay programming to CATV systems in Pennsylvania and New York, using microwave technology for transmission. HBO was also the first true premium cable (or "pay-cable") network. However, there were notable precursors to premium cable in the pay-television industry that operated during the 1950s and 1960s (with a few systems lingering until 1980)." Via this mysterious motel's own version of premium cable, then, Doc seems to have entered a worm-hole in Time and traveled into the future, allowing him to preview the explosion of cable TV offerings for premium subscribers (including re-runs of favorite shows from the '50s and '60s) that proliferated only well after 1970. This time-travel moment enables Pynchon to revel in the great cornucopia of "video universe" references that spills out onto the next page. But the tone of the passage darkens considerably, despite Doc being mesmerized by cable's illusion of infinite choice and perfect reception/recall (vs. the lousy reception on Rigg's portable black and white TV). Doc senses uneasily that a "parenthesis" in time of truly free choice may be closing, or has already closed....

==Page 254==
'''Ya gonna eat dis toikey!''' 
As [http://www.theauteurs.com/notebook/posts/983 Glenn Kenny] points out, the actual quote is "Cawve da toikey." Was it Pynchon's intention to misquote or a lapse in memory?

'''...Toobfreex at play in the video universe...stubbing it out for good.''' 
Possible statement of the Inherent Vice that closed "this little parenthesis of light", the Psychedelic Sixties?

'''the tropic isle''' 
"Gilligan's Island" leads, of course, this list of '50s & '60s TV shows

'''the Long Branch Saloon''' 
"Miss Kitty" Russell's saloon in Dodge City, KS in the long-running "Gunsmoke" [http://www.jamesarness.com/gunsmoke.htm more info here]

'''the Starship Enterprise''' 
Captain Kirk's ship on "Star Trek", the cancellation of which sparks protests earlier in the book

'''Hawaiian crime fantasies''' 
"Hawaii Five-0"
[http://www.mjq.net/fiveo/ more info here]

'''cute kids...with invisible audiences''' 
Is there anything more more of a "low level bummer" about television than the laugh track? In later decades, it was sometimes replaced by a live audience, and more recently by comedies with neither.
[http://www.tvparty.com/laugh.html for a defense of the "laugh track"]

'''a slave girl in a bottle''' 
Barbara Eden as Jeannie in "I Dream of Jeannie"
[http://www.idreamofjeannie.com/ coming 11/09 on DVD]

'''and Arnold the Pig''' 
Fred and Doris Zifel's pig on "Green Acres"
[http://www.maggiore.net/greenacres/ more info here]

==Page 255==

'''...how a certain hand might reach terribly out of the darkness and reclaim the time, easy as taking a joint from a doper and stubbing it out for good.''' 
Can't help thinking about the great [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_and_Loathing_in_Las_Vegas#The_.22wave_speech.22 'wave speech'] from Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas." Worth reading/watching/listening to (pick your format) alongside of "Inherent Vice." [http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=23451 Video clip] of Depp reading from it.

'''Doc didn't fall asleep until close to dawn'''
 Early morning, Saturday, May 2, 1970.

{{Inherent Vice PbP}}

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==Page 235==
'''Kismet'''
means Fate or fortune, but note also the other meanings below connected both to the history of the Vegas strip detailed here and to a certain earlier novel by Mr. Pynchon with "Lot" in the title: 
''Turkish, from Persian qismat; from Arabic qisma, lot; from qasama, to divide.''

'''"page right out of history," as the Flintstones might say''' 
''The Flintstones'' is animated American television sitcom that ran from 1960 to 1966 on ABC, produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. ''The Flintstones'' theme begins:

:Flintstones. Meet the Flintstones. 
:They're the modern stone age family. 
:From the town of Bedrock, 
:They're a page right out of history.

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s13X66BFd8 Have a listen on YouTube...]

==Page 237==
'''Qiana minidress''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qiana Qiana]: silky nylon made by DuPont that swept the fashion world in the 1970s. Fake-silk shiny material often used in bold patterns and, yes, disco-clothing/costumes. Difficult to tailor, apparently. Trust me, you'll know it when you see it.

'''Wrong shoes.''' 
As Doc himself pointed out on page 21, when Jade asked if he was a cop.

==Page 238==
'''lines of latitude''' 
Impossible not to think of ''Mason & Dixon'' here.

'''bespoke suit''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bespoke Haute couture for men.] This could be a very expensive suit considering it was custom made for the individual, starting from hand-picked fabrics, and "created without use of a pre-existing pattern." Sign of a man who's really into suits, in other words.

'''Aimee Semple McPherson-type''' 
Evangelist, very popular in the 20's and 30's, founder of the Foursquare Church.
She's mentioned here because she was allegedly abducted, only to escape several days later and stumble out of the Arizona desert. But her stories had some holes and raised a lot of questions. Read more [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aimee_Semple_Mcpherson#Reported_abduction here].

==Page 239==
'''gumsandal''' 
Obvious joke on a hippie, sandal wearing, private investigator, but also, just perhaps, with a hint of Dashiel Hammett's infamous [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gunsel 'gunsel.'] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjWKPdDk0_U Listen] to Pynchon himself say 'gumsandal' on the video promo to Inherent Vice.

'''Marty Robbins'd call ''foul evil deeds.''''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marty_Robbins Marty Robbins'] hit country song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bwoGbpYXRw El Paso.]

==Page 244==
'''Casey Kasem's Saturday-morning Shaggy voice''' 
That's right. Legendary radio host [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_Kasem Casey Kasem] was the voice of Shaggy on the original ''Scooby Doo'' cartoon, which premiered in 1969. How many Scooby Doo references does this make?

==Page 245==
'''settled in in front of ''All-Nite Freaky Features''''' 
Late night, Wednesday, April 29, 1970.

==Page 246==
'''awakening next morning to Henry Kissinger''' 
Morning, Thursday, April 30, 1970

==Page 247==
'''tiptoein through no tulips''' 
Another reference to Tiny Tim.

==Page 248==
'''et cetera et cetera, and so forth as the King of Siam always sez''' 
In the 1956 film ''The King and I'', Yul Brynner, who played King Mongkut of Siam, repeatedly used the phrase "et cetera, et cetera, et cetera" to characterize the King as wanting to impress with his great knowledge of many things and his importance in not having to detail them. This was based upon the usage in the book ''Anna and the King of Siam'' which related the real king's playful interest in numerous things, with the phrase, "&c, &c" (used often by Pynchon).

'''Evening came, taking everybody by surprise.''' 
Evening, Thursday, April 30,1970.

==Page 249==

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

'''Bessie Smith''' 
Smith (1894–1937) was an American blues singer. Sometimes referred to as "The Empress of the Blues," she is often regarded as one of the greatest singers of her era and a major influence on subsequent jazz vocalists. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Smith Wikipedia]

'''''rembetissas''''' 
female singers of Rebetiko music (see Rosa Eskenazi above)

'''and in first light got to the turnoff''' 
Dawn, Friday, May 1, 1970.

==Page 250==

'''Romex''' 
According to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romex Wikipedia:] A trademarked brand of power cable, often used in a generic sense to refer to any non-metallic sheathed electrical cable.

'''Riggs Warbling with a couple weeks' start on a beard''' 
I'm hoping that this will help to connect the timelines of the first and second halves of the book.

==Page 251==
'''more space, judging from the outside, than there could possibly be in here.''' 
Remember the [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_35:_349-361#Page_354 house and the carriage from ''Mason & Dixon'']?

==Page 253==
'''They left him watching ''Let's Make a Deal'''''
 Midday, Friday, May 1, 1970.

'''WELCOME TOOBFREEX! BEST CABLE IN TOWN!'''''
 "[T]ime-zone issues" and "a strange hiccup in space-time" indeed. The date is 1970 and cable TV is rare and hardly so encyclopedic in its offerings as Doc finds available from this motel. According to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_television_in_the_United_States Wikipedia on U.S. cable TV history], "In 1975, HBO (Home Box Office) was the first cable network to be delivered nationwide by satellite transmission. Prior to this, starting in 1972, it had been quietly providing pay programming to CATV systems in Pennsylvania and New York, using microwave technology for transmission. HBO was also the first true premium cable (or "pay-cable") network. However, there were notable precursors to premium cable in the pay-television industry that operated during the 1950s and 1960s (with a few systems lingering until 1980)." Via this mysterious motel's own version of premium cable, then, Doc seems to have entered a worm-hole in Time and traveled into the future, allowing him to preview the explosion of cable TV offerings for premium subscribers (including re-runs of favorite shows from the '50s and '60s) that proliferated only well after 1970. This time-travel moment enables Pynchon to revel in the great cornucopia of "video universe" references that spills out onto the next page. But the tone of the passage darkens considerably, despite Doc being mesmerized by cable's illusion of infinite choice and perfect reception/recall (vs. the lousy reception on Rigg's portable black and white TV). Doc senses uneasily that a "parenthesis" in time of truly free choice is closing....

==Page 254==
'''Ya gonna eat dis toikey!''' 
As [http://www.theauteurs.com/notebook/posts/983 Glenn Kenny] points out, the actual quote is "Cawve da toikey." Was it Pynchon's intention to misquote or a lapse in memory?

'''...Toobfreex at play in the video universe...stubbing it out for good.''' 
Possible statement of the Inherent Vice that closed "this little parenthesis of light", the Psychedelic Sixties?

'''the tropic isle''' 
"Gilligan's Island" leads, of course, this list of '50s & '60s TV shows

'''the Long Branch Saloon''' 
"Miss Kitty" Russell's saloon in Dodge City, KS in the long-running "Gunsmoke" [http://www.jamesarness.com/gunsmoke.htm more info here]

'''the Starship Enterprise''' 
Captain Kirk's ship on "Star Trek", the cancellation of which sparks protests earlier in the book

'''Hawaiian crime fantasies''' 
"Hawaii Five-0"
[http://www.mjq.net/fiveo/ more info here]

'''cute kids...with invisible audiences''' 
Is there anything more more of a "low level bummer" about television than the laugh track? In later decades, it was sometimes replaced by a live audience, and more recently by comedies with neither.
[http://www.tvparty.com/laugh.html for a defense of the "laugh track"]

'''a slave girl in a bottle''' 
Barbara Eden as Jeannie in "I Dream of Jeannie"
[http://www.idreamofjeannie.com/ coming 11/09 on DVD]

'''and Arnold the Pig''' 
Fred and Doris Zifel's pig on "Green Acres"
[http://www.maggiore.net/greenacres/ more info here]

==Page 255==

'''...how a certain hand might reach terribly out of the darkness and reclaim the time, easy as taking a joint from a doper and stubbing it out for good.''' 
Can't help thinking about the great [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_and_Loathing_in_Las_Vegas#The_.22wave_speech.22 'wave speech'] from Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas." Worth reading/watching/listening to (pick your format) alongside of "Inherent Vice." [http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=23451 Video clip] of Depp reading from it.

'''Doc didn't fall asleep until close to dawn'''
 Early morning, Saturday, May 2, 1970.

{{Inherent Vice PbP}}

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{{Inherent Vice PbP Text}}

==Page 235==
'''Kismet'''
means Fate or fortune, but note also the other meanings below connected both to the history of the Vegas strip detailed here and to a certain earlier novel by Mr. Pynchon with "Lot" in the title: 
''Turkish, from Persian qismat; from Arabic qisma, lot; from qasama, to divide.''

'''"page right out of history," as the Flintstones might say''' 
''The Flintstones'' is animated American television sitcom that ran from 1960 to 1966 on ABC, produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. ''The Flintstones'' theme begins:

:Flintstones. Meet the Flintstones. 
:They're the modern stone age family. 
:From the town of Bedrock, 
:They're a page right out of history.

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s13X66BFd8 Have a listen on YouTube...]

==Page 237==
'''Qiana minidress''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qiana Qiana]: silky nylon made by DuPont that swept the fashion world in the 1970s. Fake-silk shiny material often used in bold patterns and, yes, disco-clothing/costumes. Difficult to tailor, apparently. Trust me, you'll know it when you see it.

'''Wrong shoes.''' 
As Doc himself pointed out on page 21, when Jade asked if he was a cop.

==Page 238==
'''lines of latitude''' 
Impossible not to think of ''Mason & Dixon'' here.

'''bespoke suit''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bespoke Haute couture for men.] This could be a very expensive suit considering it was custom made for the individual, starting from hand-picked fabrics, and "created without use of a pre-existing pattern." Sign of a man who's really into suits, in other words.

'''Aimee Semple McPherson-type''' 
Evangelist, very popular in the 20's and 30's, founder of the Foursquare Church.
She's mentioned here because she was allegedly abducted, only to escape several days later and stumble out of the Arizona desert. But her stories had some holes and raised a lot of questions. Read more [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aimee_Semple_Mcpherson#Reported_abduction here].

==Page 239==
'''gumsandal''' 
Obvious joke on a hippie, sandal wearing, private investigator, but also, just perhaps, with a hint of Dashiel Hammett's infamous [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gunsel 'gunsel.'] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjWKPdDk0_U Listen] to Pynchon himself say 'gumsandal' on the video promo to Inherent Vice.

'''Marty Robbins'd call ''foul evil deeds.''''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marty_Robbins Marty Robbins'] hit country song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bwoGbpYXRw El Paso.]

==Page 244==
'''Casey Kasem's Saturday-morning Shaggy voice''' 
That's right. Legendary radio host [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_Kasem Casey Kasem] was the voice of Shaggy on the original ''Scooby Doo'' cartoon, which premiered in 1969. How many Scooby Doo references does this make?

==Page 245==
'''settled in in front of ''All-Nite Freaky Features''''' 
Late night, Wednesday, April 29, 1970.

==Page 246==
'''awakening next morning to Henry Kissinger''' 
Morning, Thursday, April 30, 1970

==Page 247==
'''tiptoein through no tulips''' 
Another reference to Tiny Tim.

==Page 248==
'''et cetera et cetera, and so forth as the King of Siam always sez''' 
In the 1956 film ''The King and I'', Yul Brynner, who played King Mongkut of Siam, repeatedly used the phrase "et cetera, et cetera, et cetera" to characterize the King as wanting to impress with his great knowledge of many things and his importance in not having to detail them. This was based upon the usage in the book ''Anna and the King of Siam'' which related the real king's playful interest in numerous things, with the phrase, "&c, &c" (used often by Pynchon).

'''Evening came, taking everybody by surprise.''' 
Evening, Thursday, April 30,1970.

==Page 249==

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

'''Bessie Smith''' 
Smith (1894–1937) was an American blues singer. Sometimes referred to as "The Empress of the Blues," she is often regarded as one of the greatest singers of her era and a major influence on subsequent jazz vocalists. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Smith Wikipedia]

'''''rembetissas''''' 
female singers of Rebetiko music (see Rosa Eskenazi above)

'''and in first light got to the turnoff''' 
Dawn, Friday, May 1, 1970.

==Page 250==

'''Romex''' 
According to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romex Wikipedia:] A trademarked brand of power cable, often used in a generic sense to refer to any non-metallic sheathed electrical cable.

'''Riggs Warbling with a couple weeks' start on a beard''' 
I'm hoping that this will help to connect the timelines of the first and second halves of the book.

==Page 251==
'''more space, judging from the outside, than there could possibly be in here.''' 
Remember the [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_35:_349-361#Page_354 house and the carriage from ''Mason & Dixon'']?

==Page 253==
'''They left him watching ''Let's Make a Deal'''''
 Midday, Friday, May 1, 1970.

'''WELCOME TOOBFREEX! BEST CABLE IN TOWN!'''''
"time-zone issues" and "a strange hiccup in space-time" indeed. The date is 1970 and cable TV is rare and hardly so encyclopedic in its offerings as Doc finds available from this motel. According to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_television_in_the_United_States Wikipedia on U.S. cable TV history], "In 1975, HBO (Home Box Office) was the first cable network to be delivered nationwide by satellite transmission. Prior to this, starting in 1972, it had been quietly providing pay programming to CATV systems in Pennsylvania and New York, using microwave technology for transmission. HBO was also the first true premium cable (or "pay-cable") network. However, there were notable precursors to premium cable in the pay-television industry that operated during the 1950s and 1960s (with a few systems lingering until 1980)." Via this mysterious motel's own version of premium cable, Doc seems to have entered a worm-hole in Time here and traveled into the future, allowing him to preview the explosion of cable TV offerings for premium subscribers (including re-runs of favorite shows from the '50s and '60s) that proliferated only well after 1970. This time-travel moment enables Doc to revel in the great cornucopia of "video universe" references that spills out on the next page.

==Page 254==
'''Ya gonna eat dis toikey!''' 
As [http://www.theauteurs.com/notebook/posts/983 Glenn Kenny] points out, the actual quote is "Cawve da toikey." Was it Pynchon's intention to misquote or a lapse in memory?

'''...Toobfreex at play in the video universe...stubbing it out for good.''' 
Possible statement of the Inherent Vice that closed "this little parenthesis of light", the Psychedelic Sixties?

'''the tropic isle''' 
"Gilligan's Island" leads, of course, this list of '50s & '60s TV shows

'''the Long Branch Saloon''' 
"Miss Kitty" Russell's saloon in Dodge City, KS in the long-running "Gunsmoke" [http://www.jamesarness.com/gunsmoke.htm more info here]

'''the Starship Enterprise''' 
Captain Kirk's ship on "Star Trek", the cancellation of which sparks protests earlier in the book

'''Hawaiian crime fantasies''' 
"Hawaii Five-0"
[http://www.mjq.net/fiveo/ more info here]

'''cute kids...with invisible audiences''' 
Is there anything more more of a "low level bummer" about television than the laugh track? In later decades, it was sometimes replaced by a live audience, and more recently by comedies with neither.
[http://www.tvparty.com/laugh.html for a defense of the "laugh track"]

'''a slave girl in a bottle''' 
Barbara Eden as Jeannie in "I Dream of Jeannie"
[http://www.idreamofjeannie.com/ coming 11/09 on DVD]

'''and Arnold the Pig''' 
Fred and Doris Zifel's pig on "Green Acres"
[http://www.maggiore.net/greenacres/ more info here]

==Page 255==

'''...how a certain hand might reach terribly out of the darkness and reclaim the time, easy as taking a joint from a doper and stubbing it out for good.''' 
Can't help thinking about the great [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_and_Loathing_in_Las_Vegas#The_.22wave_speech.22 'wave speech'] from Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas." Worth reading/watching/listening to (pick your format) alongside of "Inherent Vice." [http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=23451 Video clip] of Depp reading from it.

'''Doc didn't fall asleep until close to dawn'''
 Early morning, Saturday, May 2, 1970.

{{Inherent Vice PbP}}

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2010-08-01T01:29:34Z

Pschmid1: /* Page 253 */

{{Inherent Vice PbP Text}}

==Page 235==
'''Kismet'''
means Fate or fortune, but note also the other meanings below connected both to the history of the Vegas strip detailed here and to a certain earlier novel by Mr. Pynchon with "Lot" in the title: 
''Turkish, from Persian qismat; from Arabic qisma, lot; from qasama, to divide.''

'''"page right out of history," as the Flintstones might say''' 
''The Flintstones'' is animated American television sitcom that ran from 1960 to 1966 on ABC, produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. ''The Flintstones'' theme begins:

:Flintstones. Meet the Flintstones. 
:They're the modern stone age family. 
:From the town of Bedrock, 
:They're a page right out of history.

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s13X66BFd8 Have a listen on YouTube...]

==Page 237==
'''Qiana minidress''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qiana Qiana]: silky nylon made by DuPont that swept the fashion world in the 1970s. Fake-silk shiny material often used in bold patterns and, yes, disco-clothing/costumes. Difficult to tailor, apparently. Trust me, you'll know it when you see it.

'''Wrong shoes.''' 
As Doc himself pointed out on page 21, when Jade asked if he was a cop.

==Page 238==
'''lines of latitude''' 
Impossible not to think of ''Mason & Dixon'' here.

'''bespoke suit''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bespoke Haute couture for men.] This could be a very expensive suit considering it was custom made for the individual, starting from hand-picked fabrics, and "created without use of a pre-existing pattern." Sign of a man who's really into suits, in other words.

'''Aimee Semple McPherson-type''' 
Evangelist, very popular in the 20's and 30's, founder of the Foursquare Church.
She's mentioned here because she was allegedly abducted, only to escape several days later and stumble out of the Arizona desert. But her stories had some holes and raised a lot of questions. Read more [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aimee_Semple_Mcpherson#Reported_abduction here].

==Page 239==
'''gumsandal''' 
Obvious joke on a hippie, sandal wearing, private investigator, but also, just perhaps, with a hint of Dashiel Hammett's infamous [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gunsel 'gunsel.'] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjWKPdDk0_U Listen] to Pynchon himself say 'gumsandal' on the video promo to Inherent Vice.

'''Marty Robbins'd call ''foul evil deeds.''''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marty_Robbins Marty Robbins'] hit country song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bwoGbpYXRw El Paso.]

==Page 244==
'''Casey Kasem's Saturday-morning Shaggy voice''' 
That's right. Legendary radio host [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_Kasem Casey Kasem] was the voice of Shaggy on the original ''Scooby Doo'' cartoon, which premiered in 1969. How many Scooby Doo references does this make?

==Page 245==
'''settled in in front of ''All-Nite Freaky Features''''' 
Late night, Wednesday, April 29, 1970.

==Page 246==
'''awakening next morning to Henry Kissinger''' 
Morning, Thursday, April 30, 1970

==Page 247==
'''tiptoein through no tulips''' 
Another reference to Tiny Tim.

==Page 248==
'''et cetera et cetera, and so forth as the King of Siam always sez''' 
In the 1956 film ''The King and I'', Yul Brynner, who played King Mongkut of Siam, repeatedly used the phrase "et cetera, et cetera, et cetera" to characterize the King as wanting to impress with his great knowledge of many things and his importance in not having to detail them. This was based upon the usage in the book ''Anna and the King of Siam'' which related the real king's playful interest in numerous things, with the phrase, "&c, &c" (used often by Pynchon).

'''Evening came, taking everybody by surprise.''' 
Evening, Thursday, April 30,1970.

==Page 249==

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

'''Bessie Smith''' 
Smith (1894–1937) was an American blues singer. Sometimes referred to as "The Empress of the Blues," she is often regarded as one of the greatest singers of her era and a major influence on subsequent jazz vocalists. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Smith Wikipedia]

'''''rembetissas''''' 
female singers of Rebetiko music (see Rosa Eskenazi above)

'''and in first light got to the turnoff''' 
Dawn, Friday, May 1, 1970.

==Page 250==

'''Romex''' 
According to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romex Wikipedia:] A trademarked brand of power cable, often used in a generic sense to refer to any non-metallic sheathed electrical cable.

'''Riggs Warbling with a couple weeks' start on a beard''' 
I'm hoping that this will help to connect the timelines of the first and second halves of the book.

==Page 251==
'''more space, judging from the outside, than there could possibly be in here.''' 
Remember the [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_35:_349-361#Page_354 house and the carriage from ''Mason & Dixon'']?

==Page 253==
'''They left him watching ''Let's Make a Deal'''''
 Midday, Friday, May 1, 1970.

'''WELCOME TOOBFREEX! BEST CABLE IN TOWN!'''''
"time-zone issues" indeed. The date is 1970 and cable TV is rare and hardly so encyclopedic in its offerings as Doc finds here. According to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_television_in_the_United_States Wikipedia on U.S. cable TV history], "In 1975, HBO (Home Box Office) was the first cable network to be delivered nationwide by satellite transmission. Prior to this, starting in 1972, it had been quietly providing pay programming to CATV systems in Pennsylvania and New York, using microwave technology for transmission. HBO was also the first true premium cable (or "pay-cable") network. However, there were notable precursors to premium cable in the pay-television industry that operated during the 1950s and 1960s (with a few systems lingering until 1980)." Via this mysterious motel, Doc seems to have entered a worm-hole in Time here previewing the explosion of Cable TV channel viewing possibilities (including favorite shows from the '50s and '60s) that proliferated only well after 1970.

==Page 254==
'''Ya gonna eat dis toikey!''' 
As [http://www.theauteurs.com/notebook/posts/983 Glenn Kenny] points out, the actual quote is "Cawve da toikey." Was it Pynchon's intention to misquote or a lapse in memory?

'''...Toobfreex at play in the video universe...stubbing it out for good.''' 
Possible statement of the Inherent Vice that closed "this little parenthesis of light", the Psychedelic Sixties?

'''the tropic isle''' 
"Gilligan's Island" leads, of course, this list of '50s & '60s TV shows

'''the Long Branch Saloon''' 
"Miss Kitty" Russell's saloon in Dodge City, KS in the long-running "Gunsmoke" [http://www.jamesarness.com/gunsmoke.htm more info here]

'''the Starship Enterprise''' 
Captain Kirk's ship on "Star Trek", the cancellation of which sparks protests earlier in the book

'''Hawaiian crime fantasies''' 
"Hawaii Five-0"
[http://www.mjq.net/fiveo/ more info here]

'''cute kids...with invisible audiences''' 
Is there anything more more of a "low level bummer" about television than the laugh track? In later decades, it was sometimes replaced by a live audience, and more recently by comedies with neither.
[http://www.tvparty.com/laugh.html for a defense of the "laugh track"]

'''a slave girl in a bottle''' 
Barbara Eden as Jeannie in "I Dream of Jeannie"
[http://www.idreamofjeannie.com/ coming 11/09 on DVD]

'''and Arnold the Pig''' 
Fred and Doris Zifel's pig on "Green Acres"
[http://www.maggiore.net/greenacres/ more info here]

==Page 255==

'''...how a certain hand might reach terribly out of the darkness and reclaim the time, easy as taking a joint from a doper and stubbing it out for good.''' 
Can't help thinking about the great [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_and_Loathing_in_Las_Vegas#The_.22wave_speech.22 'wave speech'] from Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas." Worth reading/watching/listening to (pick your format) alongside of "Inherent Vice." [http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=23451 Video clip] of Depp reading from it.

'''Doc didn't fall asleep until close to dawn'''
 Early morning, Saturday, May 2, 1970.

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

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

More info at [[Inherent Vice cover analysis]]

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

==Epigraph==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[[image:afro-pick.jpg|right|120px|thumb|caption|'fro pick]]''''fro pick in his baggies for protection''' 
An "Afro" pick, aka a comb for the Afro hairstyle; this doesn't necessarily mean Doc has an Afro, only that he borrowed one "for protection" because they generally had fairly sharp metal tines. [But Tariq Khalil on p. 14 stares at Doc's "Afro." TRP notes that his stare, "under different circumstances," would be "offensive"--whatever that may mean.]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''stewardii''' 
If the Italianesque "stewardi" is being suggested by TRP as the plural of stewardess, what is "stewardii"--the plural of a plural? Definitely some comic linguistic play going on here, working out an alternative to to the clunky "stewardesses." Or could this refer to male airline attendants, "stewards" in the plural in non-Pynchonian parlance? Probably not, given that it's 1970 and airline attendants then were all female. Just a few fun things to think about while you're parsing the long list of all those waiting in line....

'''vegetarian pregnancy''' 
What's that? Pregnant women who are vegetarians and believe they need special "vitamin" supplements?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(So did Cormac McCarthy, who used a slightly different model, a light blue Olivetti Lettera 32, to type all of his novels from ''The Orchard Keeper'' to ''The Road''! McCarthy bought his Olivetti for $50 at a Knoxville Tennessee pawnshop in 1963. It was sold for over $250,000 at auction in 2009, with proceeds going to the Santa Fe Institute, a nonprofit scientific research organization. Wonder what the future of TRP's Olivetti will be.)

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

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

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

==Page 18==
'''"I counted."''' 
What does Tariq mean?

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

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

More info at [[Inherent Vice cover analysis]]

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

==Epigraph==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''stewardii''' 
If the Italianesque "stewardi" is being suggested by TRP as the plural of stewardess, what is "stewardii"--the plural of a plural? Definitely some comic linguistic play going on here, working out an alternative to to the clunky "stewardesses." Or could this refer to male airline attendants, "stewards" in the plural in non-Pynchonian parlance? Probably not, given that it's 1970 and airline attendants then were all female. Just a few fun things to think about while you're parsing the long list of all those waiting in line....

'''vegetarian pregnancy''' 
What's that? Pregnant women who are vegetarians and believe they need special "vitamin" supplements?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(So did Cormac McCarthy, who used a slightly different model, a light blue Olivetti Lettera 32, to type all of his novels from ''The Orchard Keeper'' to ''The Road''! McCarthy bought his Olivetti for $50 at a Knoxville Tennessee pawnshop in 1963. It was sold for over $250,000 at auction in 2009, with proceeds going to the Santa Fe Institute, a nonprofit scientific research organization. Wonder what the future of TRP's Olivetti will be.)

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

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

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

==Page 18==
'''"I counted."''' 
What does Tariq mean?

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'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>''' 

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

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

More info at [[Inherent Vice cover analysis]]

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

==Epigraph==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''stewardii''' 
If the Italianesque "stewardi" is being suggested by TRP as the plural of stewardess, what is "stewardii"--the plural of a plural? Definitely some comic linguistic play going on here, working out an alternative to "stewardesses." Or could these be male airline attendants, "stewards," in plural assemblage? Probably not, given that it's the late 1960s and airline attendants were all female.

'''vegetarian pregnancy''' 
What's that? Pregnant women who are vegetarians and believe they need special "vitamin" supplements?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(So did Cormac McCarthy, who used a slightly different model, a light blue Olivetti Lettera 32, to type all of his novels from ''The Orchard Keeper'' to ''The Road''! McCarthy bought his Olivetti for $50 at a Knoxville Tennessee pawnshop in 1963. It was sold for over $250,000 at auction in 2009, with proceeds going to the Santa Fe Institute, a nonprofit scientific research organization. Wonder what the future of TRP's Olivetti will be.)

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

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

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

==Page 18==
'''"I counted."''' 
What does Tariq mean?

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Chapter 1

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'''<big>Please keep these annotations SPOILER-FREE by not revealing information from later pages in the novel.</big>''' 

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

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

More info at [[Inherent Vice cover analysis]]

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

==Epigraph==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''vegetarian pregnancy''' 
What's that? Pregnant women who are vegetarians and believe they need special "vitamin" supplements?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(So did Cormac McCarthy, who used a slightly different model, a light blue Olivetti Lettera 32, to type all of his novels from ''The Orchard Keeper'' to ''The Road''! McCarthy bought his Olivetti for $50 at a Knoxville Tennessee pawnshop in 1963. It was sold for over $250,000 at auction in 2009, with proceeds going to the Santa Fe Institute, a nonprofit scientific research organization. Wonder what the future of TRP's Olivetti will be.)

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

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

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

==Page 18==
'''"I counted."''' 
What does Tariq mean?

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Chapter 1

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

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

More info at [[Inherent Vice cover analysis]]

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

==Epigraph==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''vegetarian pregnancy''' 
What's that? Pregnant women who are vegetarians and believe they need special "vitamin" supplements?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(So did Cormac McCarthy, who used a slightly different model, a light blue Olivetti Lettera 32, to type all of his novels from ''The Orchard Keeper'' to ''The Road''! McCarthy bought his Olivetti for $50 at a Knoxville Tennessee pawnshop in 1963. It was sold for over $250,000 at auction in 2009, with proceeds going to the Santa Fe Institute, a nonprofit scientific research organization. Wonder what the future of TRP's Olivetti will be.)

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

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

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

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

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

More info at [[Inherent Vice cover analysis]]

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

==Epigraph==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''vegetarian pregnancy''' 
What's that? Pregnant women who are vegetarians and believe they need special "vitamin" supplements?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Comments and Questions re the Promo Video

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Pschmid1:

[http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2009/08/11/pynchon-revealed/ '''''Wall Street Journal'': Voice-Analysis Expert Says the Voice in the Video is Pynchon "Beyond a reasonable degree of professional certainty"''' »]

'''Let's put some reactions to the video here'''. We can do better than the (mostly) mindless posts re the video on YouTube. Here are some starters:

So are these scenes from Manhattan Beach, Pynchon's "Gordita Beach"? For more info on "Meerkat Media Arts Collective," which produced the video, go [http://www.meerkatmedia.org/ here]

And is this definitely Pynchon's voice, "doing" Doc? (Sure sounds different than the high-pitched voice on the Simpsons episode, though.) [How can you say that his voice is different but it's "definitely" his voice?] [Well, you can play the excerpt from ''Diatribe of a Mad Housewife'', contrast and compare. Eventually someone will whip out a spectrum analyzer and settle it once and for all.] [Primeau, the "voice analysis expert" touted in the WSJ article, appears to claim his analysis shows that the voice in the German TV film clip is by the same person who did that bit in the Simpsons episode and who narrated the ''Inherent Vice'' promo video. But as Tim Ware points out in his response to the WSJ article, the voice in the German clip is that of John Corey, the comedian who accepted the award for Pynchon in 1973--that's his image on screen much of the time and him giving us in the voiceover his take on the events. Doesn't this gross mistake pretty much discredit Primeau's "professional certainty"? (Unless Primeau was misquoted by the reporter.) However, an interesting result _did_ come out of this comedy of errors, which is that Penguin now apparently has confirmed that TP did indeed do the voiceover on the promo video.... Which makes me very happy, since the incarnation of Doc's "live" voice so well captures what's also on the page. And it's by far the longest sample of Pynchon's voice that we've gotten so far.]

Any clues about the music? Something Neil Young did, on request from TP? (Just a wild guess.) So far Meerkat is mum.

The images emphasize how much "Gordita Beach" has changed for the worse. Just about every space is partitioned, privatized, blocked, barricaded. And check out the black cat just when Doc starts meditating about bad karma. The fog, though, remains the same.

How many other books have been promoted by an "author" video playing with the p o v of one of the characters? Or is Pynchon the first, or one of the first, to catch this new wave? He's a goofyfoot rider, fer sure.

The whole thing's brilliant and funny and sad, right up to the kicker at the end. A "music video" for a novel! But far more than just a simple "promo." Notice how "Doc" is inside and outside of the book's time zone--he both talks about the story as if it's just beginning and he's living it AND as if he's outside of time, looking back, and a little lost, with his completed story residing in this book that some guy named Pynchon has published.

Another question: if this is current footage, why does he (whoever he is) say '...later this will all be high-rise..' etc.? I take that to imply that Gordita/Manhattan as it was in Doc's/Pynchon's day has been built over? But the footage doesn't look 'old' does it? Hmmm. 
--A "bi-location" video? (cf. this concept in ''Against the Day''?) That is, the "time" and "place" the vid represents actually exist in 2 separate but linked virtual worlds, Gordita Beach then/now? Sort of like Doc's own space-time fogs ... or like ''Firesign Theater''? (i.e., their 1969 album ''How Can You Be in Two Places at Once if You're Not Anywhere at All?'' ....)

I find it curious/typical that "HCYBITPAOWYNAAA" is an obvious reference point for Inherent Vice, but the Firesign Theater in not mentioned anywhere in the book. KRLA—home of ''Radio Free OZ''—is mentioned, the obscure, very funny & very surreal ''Bonzo Dog Band'' is mentioned, the entire set-up of ''The Stoned Detective'' is derived [at least in part] from ''Nick Danger, Third Eye'' but the four [or is it five?] crazy guys are not mentioned at all in any of Pynchon's books.--Robin Landseadel, 05:40 11 August 2009 (PDT)

Why do people keep signing their contributions? It's very annoying and distracting. [OK, no more signage.]

Comments and Questions re the Promo Video

2009-08-12T04:31:03Z

Pschmid1:

[http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2009/08/11/pynchon-revealed/ '''''Wall Street Journal'': Voice-Analysis Expert Says the Voice in the Video is Pynchon "Beyond a reasonable degree of professional certainty"''' »]

'''Let's put some reactions to the video here'''. We can do better than the (mostly) mindless posts re the video on YouTube. Here are some starters:

So are these scenes from Manhattan Beach, Pynchon's "Gordita Beach"? Any clues from the publisher re how this video got made and uploaded? Could Pynchon have shot and edited this? (No doubt he approved it or it wouldn't have been uploaded, natch.) For more info on "Meerkat Media Arts Collective," which produced the video, go [http://www.meerkatmedia.org/ here]

And is this definitely Pynchon's voice, "doing" Doc? (Sure sounds different than the high-pitched voice on the Simpsons episode, though.) [How can you say that his voice is different but it's "definitely" his voice?] [Well, you can play the excerpt from ''Diatribe of a Mad Housewife'', contrast and compare. Eventually someone will whip out a spectrum analyzer and settle it once and for all.] [Primeau, the "voice analysis expert" touted in the WSJ article, appears to claim his analysis shows that the voice in the German TV film clip is by the same person who did that bit in the Simpsons episode and who narrated the ''Inherent Vice'' promo video. But as Tim Ware points out in his response to the WSJ article, the voice in the German clip is that of John Corey, the comedian who accepted the award for Pynchon in 1973--that's his image on screen much of the time and him giving us in the voiceover his take on the events. Doesn't this gross mistake pretty much discredit Primeau's "professional certainty"? (Unless Primeau was misquoted by the reporter.) However, an interesting result _did_ come out of this comedy of errors, which is that Penguin now apparently has confirmed that TP did indeed do the voiceover on the promo video.... Which makes me very happy, since the incarnation of Doc's "live" voice so well captures what's also on the page. And it's by far the longest sample of Pynchon's voice that we've gotten so far.]

Any clues about the music? Something Neil Young did, on request from TP? (Just a wild guess.) So far Meerkat is mum.

The images emphasize how much "Gordita Beach" has changed for the worse. Just about every space is partitioned, privatized, blocked, barricaded. And check out the black cat just when Doc starts meditating about bad karma. The fog, though, remains the same.

How many other books have been promoted by an "author" video playing with the p o v of one of the characters? Or is Pynchon the first, or one of the first, to catch this new wave? He's a goofyfoot rider, fer sure.

The whole thing's brilliant and funny and sad, right up to the kicker at the end. A "music video" for a novel! But far more than just a simple "promo." Notice how "Doc" is inside and outside of the book's time zone--he both talks about the story as if it's just beginning and he's living it AND as if he's outside of time, looking back, and a little lost, with his completed story residing in this book that some guy named Pynchon has published.

Another question: if this is current footage, why does he (whoever he is) say '...later this will all be high-rise..' etc.? I take that to imply that Gordita/Manhattan as it was in Doc's/Pynchon's day has been built over? But the footage doesn't look 'old' does it? Hmmm. 
--A "bi-location" video? (cf. this concept in ''Against the Day''?) That is, the "time" and "place" the vid represents actually exist in 2 separate but linked virtual worlds, Gordita Beach then/now? Sort of like Doc's own space-time fogs ... or like ''Firesign Theater''? (i.e., their 1969 album ''How Can You Be in Two Places at Once if You're Not Anywhere at All?'' ....)

I find it curious/typical that "HCYBITPAOWYNAAA" is an obvious reference point for Inherent Vice, but the Firesign Theater in not mentioned anywhere in the book. KRLA—home of ''Radio Free OZ''—is mentioned, the obscure, very funny & very surreal ''Bonzo Dog Band'' is mentioned, the entire set-up of ''The Stoned Detective'' is derived [at least in part] from ''Nick Danger, Third Eye'' but the four [or is it five?] crazy guys are not mentioned at all in any of Pynchon's books.--Robin Landseadel, 05:40 11 August 2009 (PDT)

Why do people keep signing their contributions? It's very annoying and distracting. [OK, no more signage.]

Comments and Questions re the Promo Video

2009-08-12T04:29:05Z

Pschmid1:

[http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2009/08/11/pynchon-revealed/ '''''Wall Street Journal'': Voice-Analysis Expert Says the Voice in the Video is Pynchon "Beyond a reasonable degree of professional certainty"''' »]

'''Let's put some reactions to the video here'''. We can do better than the (mostly) mindless posts re the video on YouTube. Here are some starters:

So are these scenes from Manhattan Beach, Pynchon's "Gordita Beach"? Any clues from the publisher re how this video got made and uploaded? Could Pynchon have shot and edited this? (No doubt he approved it or it wouldn't have been uploaded, natch.) For more info on "Meerkat Media Arts Collective," which produced the video, go [http://www.meerkatmedia.org/ here]

And is this definitely Pynchon's voice, "doing" Doc? (Sure sounds different than the high-pitched voice on the Simpsons episode, though.) [How can you say that his voice is different but it's "definitely" his voice?] [Well, you can play the excerpt from ''Diatribe of a Mad Housewife'', contrast and compare. Eventually someone will whip out a spectrum analyzer and settle it once and for all.] [Primeau, the "voice analysis expert" touted in the WSJ article, appears to claim his analysis shows that the voice in the German TV film clip is by the same person who did that bit in the Simpsons episode and who narrated the ''Inherent Vice'' promo video. But as Tim Ware points out in his response to the WSJ article, the voice in the German clip is that of John Corey, the comedian who accepted the award for Pynchon in 1973--that's his image on screen much of the time and him giving us in the voiceover his take on the events. Doesn't this gross mistake pretty much discredit Primeau's "professional certainty"? (Unless Primeau was misquoted by the reporter.) However, an interesting result _did_ come out of this comedy of errors, which is that Penguin now apparently has confirmed that TP did indeed do the voiceover on the promo video.... Which makes me very happy, since the incarnation of Doc's "live" voice so well captures what's also on the page. And it's by far the longest sample of Pynchon's voice that we've gotten so far.]

Any clues about the music? Something Neil Young did, on request from TP? (Just a wild guess.)

The images emphasize how much "Gordita Beach" has changed for the worse. Just about every space is partitioned, privatized, blocked, barricaded. And check out the black cat just when Doc starts meditating about bad karma. The fog, though, remains the same.

How many other books have been promoted by an "author" video playing with the p o v of one of the characters? Or is Pynchon the first, or one of the first, to catch this new wave? He's a goofyfoot rider, fer sure.

The whole thing's brilliant and funny and sad, right up to the kicker at the end. A "music video" for a novel! But far more than just a simple "promo." Notice how "Doc" is inside and outside of the book's time zone--he both talks about the story as if it's just beginning and he's living it AND as if he's outside of time, looking back, and a little lost, with his completed story residing in this book that some guy named Pynchon has published.

Another question: if this is current footage, why does he (whoever he is) say '...later this will all be high-rise..' etc.? I take that to imply that Gordita/Manhattan as it was in Doc's/Pynchon's day has been built over? But the footage doesn't look 'old' does it? Hmmm. 
--A "bi-location" video? (cf. this concept in ''Against the Day''?) That is, the "time" and "place" the vid represents actually exist in 2 separate but linked virtual worlds, Gordita Beach then/now? Sort of like Doc's own space-time fogs ... or like ''Firesign Theater''? (i.e., their 1969 album ''How Can You Be in Two Places at Once if You're Not Anywhere at All?'' ....)

I find it curious/typical that "HCYBITPAOWYNAAA" is an obvious reference point for Inherent Vice, but the Firesign Theater in not mentioned anywhere in the book. KRLA—home of ''Radio Free OZ''—is mentioned, the obscure, very funny & very surreal ''Bonzo Dog Band'' is mentioned, the entire set-up of ''The Stoned Detective'' is derived [at least in part] from ''Nick Danger, Third Eye'' but the four [or is it five?] crazy guys are not mentioned at all in any of Pynchon's books.--Robin Landseadel, 05:40 11 August 2009 (PDT)

Why do people keep signing their contributions? It's very annoying and distracting. [OK, no more signage.]

Comments and Questions re the Promo Video

2009-08-12T04:05:35Z

Pschmid1:

[http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2009/08/11/pynchon-revealed/ '''''Wall Street Journal'': Voice-Analysis Expert Says the Voice in the Video is Pynchon "Beyond a reasonable degree of professional certainty"''' »]

'''Let's put some reactions to the video here'''. We can do better than the (mostly) mindless posts re the video on YouTube. Here are some starters:

So are these scenes from Manhattan Beach, Pynchon's "Gordita Beach"? Any clues from the publisher re how this video got made and uploaded? Could Pynchon have shot and edited this? (No doubt he approved it or it wouldn't have been uploaded, natch.)

And is this definitely Pynchon's voice, "doing" Doc? (Sure sounds different than the high-pitched voice on the Simpsons episode, though.) [How can you say that his voice is different but it's "definitely" his voice?] [Well, you can play the excerpt from ''Diatribe of a Mad Housewife'', contrast and compare. Eventually someone will whip out a spectrum analyzer and settle it once and for all.]

Any clues about the music? Something Neil Young did, on request from TP? (Just a wild guess.)

The images emphasize how much "Gordita" has changed for the worse. Just about every space is partitioned, privatized, blocked, barricaded. And check out the black cat just when Doc starts meditating about bad karma. The fog, though, remains the same.

How many other books have been promoted by an "author" video playing with the p o v of one of the characters? Or is Pynchon the first, or one of the first, to catch this new wave? He's a goofyfoot rider, fer sure.

The whole thing's brilliant and funny and sad, right up to the kicker at the end. A "music video" for a novel! But far more than just a simple "promo." Notice how "Doc" is inside and outside of the book's time zone--he both talks about the story as if it's just beginning and he's living it AND as if he's outside of time, looking back, and a little lost, with his completed story residing in this book that some guy named Pynchon has published.

Another question: if this is current footage, why does he (whoever he is) say '...later this will all be high-rise..' etc.? I take that to imply that Gordita/Manhattan as it was in Doc's/Pynchon's day has been built over? But the footage doesn't look 'old' does it? Hmmm. 
--A "bi-location" video? (cf. this concept in ''Against the Day''?) That is, the "time" and "place" the vid represents actually exist in 2 separate but linked virtual worlds, Gordita Beach then/now? Sort of like Doc's own space-time fogs ... or like ''Firesign Theater''? (i.e., their 1969 album ''How Can You Be in Two Places at Once if You're Not Anywhere at All?'' ....)

I find it curious/typical that "HCYBITPAOWYNAAA" is an obvious reference point for Inherent Vice, but the Firesign Theater in not mentioned anywhere in the book. KRLA—home of ''Radio Free OZ''—is mentioned, the obscure, very funny & very surreal ''Bonzo Dog Band'' is mentioned, the entire set-up of ''The Stoned Detective'' is derived [at least in part] from ''Nick Danger, Third Eye'' but the four [or is it five?] crazy guys are not mentioned at all in any of Pynchon's books.--Robin Landseadel, 05:40 11 August 2009 (PDT)

Why do people keep signing their contributions? It's very annoying and distracting.

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'''Bonzo Dog Band''' 
Located in the aesthetic cracks somewhere between the Goons and Monty Python, Spike Jones and Spinal Tap, The Bonzo Dog Band [formerly The Bonzo Doo-Dah Dog Band] was sometimes [incorrectly] cited as Britain's answer to Frank Zappa, The Bonzo Dog Band were the all-time masters of musical surrealism and not inconsequentially the Beatles favorite band. The Bonzo's performance of Sonny Bono's "Bang Bang [My Baby Shot Me Down]" appears as a bonus track on the 2007 reissue of their album "The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse."[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonzo_Dog_Doo-Dah_Band Wikipedia] A "surfadelic" version of "Bang Bang" is included on Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet's 1991 album "Dim the Lights, Chill the Ham."

The Bonzos perform "Death Cab For Cutie" on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9y4vLrHsm4 YouTube]

'''KRLA''' 
KRLA, "The Big 11-10", became one of the top radio stations in the Los Angeles area, competing with KFWB and KHJ to be L.A.'s dominant top 40 station. KRLA featured local DJs like Dave Hull (The Hullabalooer), Dick "Huggy Boy" Hugg, Emperor Bob Hudson, Ted Quillin, Bill Ballance, Reb Foster, Casey Kasem, Bob Eubanks, Dick Biondi, Sam Riddle, Dick Moreland, Jimmy O'Neill, Wink Martindale, Johnny Hayes.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDIS_(AM) Wikipedia] KRLA was also a major outlet for radio comedy, featuring live broadcasts of Stan Freberg, The Firesign Theater and the Credibility Gap.

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'''Robert Moses''' 
Robert Moses (1888 – 1981) was the "master builder" of mid-20th century New York City, Long Island, and Westchester County, New York. His career is summed up by his sayings "cities are for traffic" and "if the ends don't justify the means, what does?" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Moses Wikipedia]

'''Dr. Van Helsing''' 
A funny joke here. Helsing is a character in Bram Stoker's ''Dracula''. He's a vampire hunter.

'''Jimmy Wong Howe''' 
Master cinematographer James Wong Howe, whose career stretched from silent pictures through the mid-'70s, was born Wong Tung Jim in Canton (now Guangzhou), China, on August 28, 1899, the son of Wong How. Wong Howe was famed for his innovations, including putting a cameraman with a hand-held camera on roller skates inside a boxing ring for Body and Soul (1947) to draw the audience into the ring. . . [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002146/bio IMDb]
Howe also was the DP on the very revolutionary film 'the Molly Maguires. /cw?

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'''where John Garfield is this evil gangster''' 
John Garfield (1913-1952) was an American actor especially adept at playing brooding, rebellious, working-class character roles. He is acknowledged as the predecessor of such Method actors as Marlon Brando, James Dean, and Montgomery Clift. He was active in liberal politics, and when called to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, which was empowered to investigate purported communist infiltration in America, Garfield refused to name communist party members or followers, testifying that, indeed, he knew none in the film industry. As a result, his Hollywood career was pretty much destroyed and he spiralled into depression and substance abuse, dying at 39 years of age [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Garfield Wikipedia entry]. This is the first of many upcoming references to Garfield and his work, who proves to be one of Doc's few heroes. For a good short essay on Garfield and John Prine's song "The Late John Garfield Blues," from Prine's ''Diamonds in the Rough'' album (1972), go [http://www.celestialmonochord.org/2005/09/the_late_john_g.html here].

'''Ida Lupino''' 
Ida Lupino (1918 – 1995) was an Anglo-American film actress, director, and a pioneer among women filmmakers. In her forty-eight year career, she appeared in fifty-nine films, and directed nine others. She also appeared in episodic television fifty-eight times and directed fifty other episodes. In addition, she contributed as a writer to five films and four TV episodes. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Lupino Wikipedia]

'''arrepentimiento''' 
Spanish: n. repentance, penitence, contrition--all concepts important to ''Inherent Vice''.
There's also a cool trilingual pun here: "pentimento" (now an English word, but from the Italian for 'repent') refers to an image in a painting that was painted over but then, with time, begins to show through the top layer of represented images. Lots of ways to connect this multi-level word to the plot and themes of ''Inherent Vice''.

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'''Bucky Fuller''' 
Buckminster Fuller was an American architect and inventor (among other things). He invented the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geodesic_dome Geodesic dome].

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