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Chapter 4

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==Page 50==
'''Hughes Company property''' 
Hughes Aircraft Company was a major aerospace and defense company founded by Howard Hughes. The group was based in Culver City, California. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_Aircraft Wikipedia]
==Page 51==
'''KQAS''' 

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

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

'''Ondas Nudosas''' 
Spanish: "Gnarly Waves," Pynchon's hilarious (and also accurate) translation of surfer-speak for waves that are great to ride but challenging.

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

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

'''Dodge Super Bee'''[[File:DodgeSuperBee.jpg|thumb|left|1969 Dodge Super Bee, Photo from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_Super_Bee Wikipedia]]]

==Page 53==
'''ARPAnet''' 
"It's a network of computers, Doc. all connected by phone lines. UCLA, Isla Vista, Stanford. Say there's a file they have up there and you don't, they'll send it right along at fifty thousand characters per second."

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

An interesting discussion about ARPAnet on pg. 195.

==Page 54==
'''ARPA''' 
Now '''DARPA'''

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Errata

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34: "Sidney Omarr" should be "Sydney Omarr"

54: "Woolridge" should be "Wooldridge"

It appears as "Woolridge" here, and in numerous other sources (including an historical note on TRW's own website), and as "Wooldridge" on Wikipedia and in some other places. This photograph of a magazine [http://www.flickr.com/photos/bustbright/3364146397/sizes/o/in/photostream/ ad] from 1958 or '59 establishes that the real name was "Wooldridge" (read the text, not the caption). In addition, the New York Times [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/23/business/23wooldridge.html obituary] of the company's co-founder reads "Wooldridge."

91: "Thomas Arnould" should be "Joseph Arnould"

While there is an historical figure named Thomas Arnold, the context indicates that the intended reference is someone who was a commentator on marine insurance, which is exactly what Joseph Arnould was. He published a book on that subject in 1848.

105: "he can't understood why"

200: "anydody" should be "anybody"

210: "deperate" should be "desperate"

Talk:Errata

2009-08-24T07:12:04Z

Torerye: Created page with 'If no one objects, I'll remove hadt'n and didt'n from the errata list. The same spelling occurs several times in Vineland, so it seems clear that the 'misspelling' is intentional…'

If no one objects, I'll remove hadt'n and didt'n from the errata list. The same spelling occurs several times in Vineland, so it seems clear that the 'misspelling' is intentional. [[User:Torerye|Torerye]] 00:12, 24 August 2009 (PDT)

Chapter 21

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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.

==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.

==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...]

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

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Chapter 1

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

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

More info at [[Inherent Vice cover analysis]]

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

==Epigraph==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Tree Section''' 
Section of Manhattan Beach west of Sepulveda Blvd, filled with family homes. Generally more upscale than Doc's neighborhood.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Cal Worthington''' 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 13==
'''DOC'S OFFICE WAS located near the airport, off East Imperial''' 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Chapter 1

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Torerye: /* Dedication */

:'''<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. Figuratively, it refers to the ideal life to be found beneath the confines of society.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Tree Section''' 
Section of Manhattan Beach west of Sepulveda Blvd, filled with family homes. Generally more upscale than Doc's neighborhood. Pynchon lived in Manhattan Beach in 1969-1970 while working on [http://gravitysrainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow'']. Gordita Beach is the fictionalized Manhattan Beach.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Cal Worthington''' 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 13==
'''DOC'S OFFICE WAS located near the airport, off East Imperial''' 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Errata

2009-08-14T06:39:18Z

Torerye: hadt'n probably not an error

34: "Sidney Omarr" should be "Sydney Omarr"

54: "Wooridge" should be "Woodridge"
:I dunno-- it should be "Woolridge," and is in the final published edition. Ramo-Wooldridge (TRW after 1958) was an engineering company. [[User:Bleakhaus|Bleakhaus]] 23:27, 22 July 2009 (PDT)

84, 133, 196: "didt'n" is repeated several times, so maybe this is Pynchon being colloquial

91: "Thomas Arnould" should be "Arnold"

105: "he can't understood why"

144: "hadt'n" - as with "didt'n," probably an intentional colloquialism

200: "anydody" should be "anybody"

210: "deperate" should be "desperate"

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2009-08-13T07:17:47Z

Torerye: Additional info on Tex Wiener

'''Taco Bell''' 
197; fastfood chain of inexpensive Mexican food restaurants

'''Tate, Sharon (1943-1969)''' 
48; Actress and wife of Roman Polanski, murdered by the Manson Family in 1969

'''"Tears on My Pillow"''' 
300: Reference to it: "tempt the hand of fate"; released in 1958, it was Little Anthony & the Imperials first hit and contains the line "I'd gladly take you back, and tempt the hand of fate."

'''Teke''' 
182; Greek restaurant where Doc and Tito eat

'''"Telstar"''' 
124; 1962 instrumental by The Tornados

'''Temple, Shirley (b. 1928)''' 
Known for most of her adult life by her married name, Shirley Temple Black, she is an American actress, singer, and tap dancer, who is best known for being an iconic American child actress of the 1930s. After her film achievements she began a notable career as a diplomat; singing "We Should Be Together" from ''Little Miss Broadway'' (1938)

'''"Tequila"''' 
125; 1958 rock instrumental by The Champs

'''Tex-Mecca''' 
221; Taqueria in Las Vegas where Doc and Trillium go

'''Tex Wiener École de Pilotage''' 
134; Tex Wiener first appears in ''Vineland'' (p. 361), where he is introduced as one of Sasha's many romantic interests. The French term "École de Pilotage" can both mean "flight school" and "driving school." In ''Vineland'' Tex wears a "bright silver custom jumpsuit," cultivating the impression that he is a pilot, but it seems that Doc has merely been attending driving school.

'''"That's Amore"''' 
1952 song by composer Harry Warren and lyricist Jack Brooks. It became a major hit and signature song for Dean Martin in 1953. ''Amore'' means "love" in Italian, giving a general traslation in English "that's love." It begins, "When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie that's amore."

'''Thorndyke''' 
153; Aubrey's "coadjutor" biker

'''Three Stooges''' 
American vaudeville and comedy act of the early to mid–20th century best known for their numerous short subject films. Their hallmark was physical slapstick comedy punctuated by quickly-delivered one-liners, within outrageous storylines. The original three were Larry, Moe and Curly; 198

'''Threeply, Dr.''' 
187; at Chryskylodon

'''Thunderclap Newman''' 
Late 1960s One-hit wonder band from the UK. Their single, "Something in the Air", was a 1969 UK Number One hit. The band was formed by the Who's Pete Townsend as a vehicle for the Who's former roadie, John "Speedy" Keen's songs. Keen wrote "Armenia City in the Sky" on the Who's ''The Who Sell Out'' album (1967). Townsend played bass under the pseudonym Bijou Drains; "Something in the Air" 356

'''''Tiatimo meraki''''' 
249; song by Roza Eskenazi

'''''Time Tunnel, The''''' 
A 1966–1967 U.S. color science fiction TV series, starring James Darren; 261

'''Tiny Tim (1932-1996)''' 
Herbert Khaury, better known by the stage name Tiny Tim, was an American singer, ukulele player, and musical archivist. He was most famous for his rendition of "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" sung in a distinctive high falsetto / vibrato voice (his normal singing voice was baritone). He was generally thought of as a novelty act, though his records display a wide knowledge of American songs; "The Ice Caps Are Melting" (from his 1968 debut album), 108. He's also mentioned on pg. 309 of ''Vineland''.

'''Todos Santos''' 
99; famed surfing location in Baja Mexico

'''''toloache''''' 
Scientific name is ''Datura inoxia'', native to Central and South America. The Aztecs called the plant ''toloatzin'', and used it long before the Spanish conquest of Mexico for many therapeutic purposes, such as poultices for wounds where it acts as an anodyne. Although the Aztecs warned against madness and "various and vain imaginings", many native Americans have used the plant as an entheogen for hallucinations and rites of passage; Indians smoking it, 355;

'''Tommy's''' 
73; burger joint in Los Angeles where Krishna the fry cook provides joints in the burgers, for a bit extra

'''Tommy James & the Shondells''' 
165; their biggest hits were "Crimson and Clover" (1968) and "I Think We're Along Now" (1967); named after guitarist Troy Shondell, a hero of Tommy James's.

'''Trashmen, The''' 
Rock 'n' roll band formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1962. The group played surf rock which included many elements from garage rock; 37; "Surfin' Bird" (1963), 124

'''Tropicana Motel''' 
273; located at 8585 Santa Monica Blvd in West Hollywood, and torn down in 1980, it was where many rock stars stayed in Los Angeles.

'''Trumbo, Dalton (1905-1976)''' 
254; an American screenwriter and novelist, and one of the Hollywood Ten, a group of film professionals who testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947 during the committee's investigation of Communist influences in the motion picture industry. He refused to give any information and was convicted of contempt of Congress, blacklisted, and in 1950, spent 11 months in prison in the federal penitentiary in Ashland, Kentucky.

'''TRW''' 
54; See "Ramo isn't telling Woolridge"

'''Tubb, Ernest''' 
225; country-western singer

'''Tubeside, Dr. Buddy''' 
13; with whom Doc shares an office "near the airport, off East Imperial"; 289; 360

'''Tujunga Wash''' 
136; a stream in Los Angeles County, California. It is a tributary of the Los Angeles River. It is called a wash because it is usually dry, especially the lower reaches, only carrying significant flows during and after storms, which usually only occur between November and April.

'''Tweedle, Arthur''' 
199; "civilian machinist who worked a regular day shift at the naval weapons stations" and is a member of Vigilant California

'''Tweedle, Cindi''' 
200; Arthur's wife

'''Twong, Zigzag''' 
100; surfer in Gordita Beach who had switched to a shorter surf board

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2009-08-12T11:13:05Z

Torerye: Adds reference to Tex Wiener from Vineland

'''Taco Bell''' 
197; fastfood chain of inexpensive Mexican food restaurants

'''Tate, Sharon (1943-1969)''' 
48; Actress and wife of Roman Polanski, murdered by the Manson Family in 1969

'''"Tears on My Pillow"''' 
300: Reference to it: "tempt the hand of fate"; released in 1958, it was Little Anthony & the Imperials first hit and contains the line "I'd gladly take you back, and tempt the hand of fate."

'''Teke''' 
182; Greek restaurant where Doc and Tito eat

'''"Telstar"''' 
124; 1962 instrumental by The Tornados

'''Temple, Shirley (b. 1928)''' 
Known for most of her adult life by her married name, Shirley Temple Black, she is an American actress, singer, and tap dancer, who is best known for being an iconic American child actress of the 1930s. After her film achievements she began a notable career as a diplomat; singing "We Should Be Together" from ''Little Miss Broadway'' (1938)

'''"Tequila"''' 
125; 1958 rock instrumental by The Champs

'''Tex-Mecca''' 
221; Taqueria in Las Vegas where Doc and Trillium go

'''Tex Wiener École de Pilotage''' 
134; Tex Wiener and his school for pilots first appear in ''Vineland'' (p. 361), where Tex is introduced as one of Sasha's many romantic interests.

'''"That's Amore"''' 
1952 song by composer Harry Warren and lyricist Jack Brooks. It became a major hit and signature song for Dean Martin in 1953. ''Amore'' means "love" in Italian, giving a general traslation in English "that's love." It begins, "When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie that's amore."

'''Thorndyke''' 
153; Aubrey's "coadjutor" biker

'''Three Stooges''' 
American vaudeville and comedy act of the early to mid–20th century best known for their numerous short subject films. Their hallmark was physical slapstick comedy punctuated by quickly-delivered one-liners, within outrageous storylines. The original three were Larry, Moe and Curly; 198

'''Threeply, Dr.''' 
187; at Chryskylodon

'''Thunderclap Newman''' 
Late 1960s One-hit wonder band from the UK. Their single, "Something in the Air", was a 1969 UK Number One hit. The band was formed by the Who's Pete Townsend as a vehicle for the Who's former roadie, John "Speedy" Keen's songs. Keen wrote "Armenia City in the Sky" on the Who's ''The Who Sell Out'' album (1967). Townsend played bass under the pseudonym Bijou Drains; "Something in the Air" 356

'''''Tiatimo meraki''''' 
249; song by Roza Eskenazi

'''''Time Tunnel, The''''' 
A 1966–1967 U.S. color science fiction TV series, starring James Darren; 261

'''Tiny Tim (1932-1996)''' 
Herbert Khaury, better known by the stage name Tiny Tim, was an American singer, ukulele player, and musical archivist. He was most famous for his rendition of "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" sung in a distinctive high falsetto / vibrato voice (his normal singing voice was baritone). He was generally thought of as a novelty act, though his records display a wide knowledge of American songs; "The Ice Caps Are Melting" (from his 1968 debut album), 108. He's also mentioned on pg. 309 of ''Vineland''.

'''Todos Santos''' 
99; famed surfing location in Baja Mexico

'''''toloache''''' 
Scientific name is ''Datura inoxia'', native to Central and South America. The Aztecs called the plant ''toloatzin'', and used it long before the Spanish conquest of Mexico for many therapeutic purposes, such as poultices for wounds where it acts as an anodyne. Although the Aztecs warned against madness and "various and vain imaginings", many native Americans have used the plant as an entheogen for hallucinations and rites of passage; Indians smoking it, 355;

'''Tommy's''' 
73; burger joint in Los Angeles where Krishna the fry cook provides joints in the burgers, for a bit extra

'''Tommy James & the Shondells''' 
165; their biggest hits were "Crimson and Clover" (1968) and "I Think We're Along Now" (1967); named after guitarist Troy Shondell, a hero of Tommy James's.

'''Trashmen, The''' 
Rock 'n' roll band formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1962. The group played surf rock which included many elements from garage rock; 37; "Surfin' Bird" (1963), 124

'''Tropicana Motel''' 
273; located at 8585 Santa Monica Blvd in West Hollywood, and torn down in 1980, it was where many rock stars stayed in Los Angeles.

'''Trumbo, Dalton (1905-1976)''' 
254; an American screenwriter and novelist, and one of the Hollywood Ten, a group of film professionals who testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947 during the committee's investigation of Communist influences in the motion picture industry. He refused to give any information and was convicted of contempt of Congress, blacklisted, and in 1950, spent 11 months in prison in the federal penitentiary in Ashland, Kentucky.

'''TRW''' 
54; See "Ramo isn't telling Woolridge"

'''Tubb, Ernest''' 
225; country-western singer

'''Tubeside, Dr. Buddy''' 
13; with whom Doc shares an office "near the airport, off East Imperial"; 289; 360

'''Tujunga Wash''' 
136; a stream in Los Angeles County, California. It is a tributary of the Los Angeles River. It is called a wash because it is usually dry, especially the lower reaches, only carrying significant flows during and after storms, which usually only occur between November and April.

'''Tweedle, Arthur''' 
199; "civilian machinist who worked a regular day shift at the naval weapons stations" and is a member of Vigilant California

'''Tweedle, Cindi''' 
200; Arthur's wife

'''Twong, Zigzag''' 
100; surfer in Gordita Beach who had switched to a shorter surf board

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