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Professor Don Larrson, he of the Companion's Companion to ''Inherent Vice'' (which was rolled into this wiki), reviews Steve Weisenburger's the second, revised edition of ''A Gravity’s Rainbow Companion: Sources and Contexts for Pynchon’s Novel''. [[Weisenburger's Companion, 2nd Edition|Read it...]].

[[The_Hawaiian_Islands_and_Ukuleles|'''Hawaiian cultural references in ''Inherent Vice''''']]</div>

==Pynchon Narrates ''Inherent Vice'' Promotional Video==

'''''Can flying pigs be far behind?'''''

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Apart from those, it's up to you.

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* [http://www.u-town.com/iv iv – a site about Inherent Vice]

==Featured Articles==

[[image:logo-LondonReview.gif|left]] '''"Call It Capitalism" by Thomas Jones, for the ''London Review of Books''''', is a thoughtful, knowledgeable and insightful review of ''Inherent Vice'', linking it to Pynchon's themes from ''The Crying of Lot 49'' to ''Mason & Dixon''. A must read! [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n17/jone01_.html Read the review...]


[[image:buckaroosmall.jpg|left|thumb|190px]] '''Pynchon and Comics''' - Sean Rogers: "Ever attuned to the lower frequencies of American culture, the wavelengths where rock and roll and monster movies and The Tube all play out, Pynchon is an author who can ably salt away a few references to comics, too, throughout his works. The guy hips himself to so many things—from 18th century naval battles to Jacobean revenge drama to the intricacies of rhinoplasty—that to happen across nods to underground comics, or moral outlooks articulated by way of classic cartooning like George Herriman’s comic strip Kat, is simply par for a very wide-ranging course." [http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2009/08/12/pynchon-and-comics/ Read the article...]

* [[Songs mentioned in Inherent Vice|Songs & Musicians: The ''Inherent Vice'' Playlist]]

* [[Movie_references_in_Inherent_Vice|Movies, Actors, Cartoons, &c. in ''Inherent Vice'']]

* [[Pynchon's California Trilogy and the CIA|Unreleased Backgrounds: Pynchon's California Trilogy and the CIA]]

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==Image Gallery==
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==Page 166==
'''Brylcreem''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brylcreem Brylcreem] is a hair styling oil/gel for men that was very popular. It gives hair a wet, oily look.

'''on the natch''' 
"natch" is short for "natural" and "on the natch," in this context, means sober. On [[Chapter_15#Page_273|pg. 273]], the perennially sober Bigfoot is described as a "literal-minded natch-meister."

==Page 168==
'''Leuzinger High''' 
A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leuzinger_High_School real] high school, in Lawndale, California, which - particularly in the story's time period - was a relatively undesirable and low-priced city in the LA area.

'''Dr. Blatnoyd''' 
Probably a play on the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blat_%28Russia%29 term] of Russian origin, meaning a man with underworld connections or a career criminal.

==Page 170==
'''Section Eight hippies''' 
Section Eight is low income housing funded with a federal subsidy.

==Page 171==
'''Japonica Fenway''' 
"Japonica" is just a Latinization of "Japanese," but it is most commonly used in formal Latin plant names. There are a wide variety of "____ Japonica" plants, such as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camellia_japonica Camellia Japonica]. While it's not really possible to make any universal statement about such widely varied species, they tend to be ornamental and hardy. [[Plants of Inherent Vice|See: Plants of Inherent Vice]]

'''Crocker Fenway''' 
It is possible the first name is inspired by the character "Crocker Jarmon" from the movie [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068334/ The Candidate (1972)]. The character in the movie is an establishment, incumbent GOP Senator from California.

The first names of both characters may also refer to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocker_National_Bank Crocker National Bank], which historically was a conservative, Republican institution. [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,847658,00.html 1936 Time Magazine reference], [http://articles.latimes.com/1986-05-27/business/fi-7509_1 1986 Article].

'''the ancient American Indian belief that if you save somebody's life, you are responsible for them from then on, forever''' 
Last seen in Against the Day with Foley Walker and Scarsdale Vibe.

==Page 172==
'''Governor Reagan''' 
Ronald Reagan was governor of California from 1967 to 1975.

==Page 174==
'''"Miss Fenway," the doctor began to explain, "may seem a little psychotic today..."''' 
Reminiscent of the psychodontist, Dr. Dudley Eigenvalue, in V. From page 138 of that book (the beginning of chapter seven): "Back around the turn of the century, psychoanalysis had usurped from the priesthood the role of father-confessor. Now, it seemed, the analyst in his turn was about to be deposed by, of all people, the dentist." In general, "Smile Maintenance," at least as practiced by Dr. Blatnoyd, seems to cover some mixture of dentistry, psychology, and "hoddible fucking!"

==Page 175==
[[File:MercedesSedan.jpg|thumb|200px|right|1960 Mercedes-Benz W128 Sedan, image from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_W128 Wikipedia]]]
'''Mercedes sedan''' 
ten-year-old Mercedes sedan with a roof panel

'''late rush-hour traffic''' 
Should be afternoon, the thirteenth day of the narrative, Sunday, April 5, 1970, but why would there be rush hour traffic? Why would postcards be delivered today, and why would the Golden Fang be open?.

==Page 176==
'''outdoor concerts where thousands . . . public self''' 
A good description of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock Woodstock], which had just taken place the previous year.

'''each person was listening in solitude, confinement and mutual silence''' 
Perhaps a foreshadowing of the iPod generation?

'''''head''phones!''' 
Here, "head" refers to drugs, as in [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=head+shop "head shop"].

'''Doc noticed (a) it was now dark''' 
Should be evening, the thirteenth day of the narrative, Sunday, April 5, 1970.

==Page 180==
'''Things were weird for a few days with the Dart''' 
The timeline gets broken here. From the end of the book to this point--from April 26 to May 8--the narrator has made it easy to follow the events of the book in real time. The narrator puts Doc to bed at night, gets him up in the morning, points out television shows and events.

The first half of the book, thirteen days up to the "few days" the Dart was in the shop, can also be matched with real time events. For example, Doc's parents visit during a division semifinal game between the 76ers and the Bucks. That series was played from March 25 to April 3. That would mean that the Dart was in the shop for a couple of weeks. Given the regret that Doc felt over a less-than-24-hour delay in the first and second days of the narrative, it's difficult to believe that he would drop the case for that long. Perhaps some kind of ''Dark Shadows'' parallel time is at work.

Or maybe Pynchon, contrary to reputation but like most authors, hasn't been perfectly careful about the relationship between his story's timeline and the real calendar's.

'''When he finally went over to pick up his ride''' 
Probably morning, Saturday, April 25, 1970. See below for an explanation of "probably". The obvious reference is to the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who also came back on a Sunday. This is not Easter Sunday, though. It occurred on March 29 in 1970.

==Page 181==

'''Quonset hut''' 
Prefabricated metal building with a semicircular cross section. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quonset_hut Wikipedia]

''''64 Dodge Dart'''
[[Image:1964_Dodge_Dart.jpg|left|thumb|210px|1964 Dodge Dart Sedan, photo by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:64_Dodge_Dart_F34.jpg Scheinwerfermann]
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==Page 182==
'''I'll buy you lunch''' 
Probably morning, Saturday, April 25, 1970. I say probably because it seems unlikely that Doc could have lunch with Tito, make a few phone calls, and drive to Ojai, getting there before lunchtime. The narrator has been pretty careful, though, from the end of the book to this point in noting the ends and beginnings of days.

'''They went down Pico . . . before repeating an ethnic category.''' 
A possible nod to noted LA chowhound Johnathan Gold, who got his start as a Pulitzer Prize winning food critic eating his way across ethnic LA along Pico Blvd. Profiled here on NPR's [http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=110 "This American Life"] (See: ''Act Five. Taste.'')

==Page 184==

'''1934 Hispano-Suiza J12'''
[[File:Hispano-SuizaJ12.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Hispano-Suiza J12, photo from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispano-Suiza Wikipedia]‎]]

==Page 185==

'''Gold fang''' 
According to Google language tools, the Greek for "gold tooth" would be pronounced [http://translate.google.com/translate_t?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&text=gold+tooth&sl=en&tl=el# "chrysó dónti"].

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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?

'''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].

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

==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.

'''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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[[File:68Elcamino.jpg|thumb|150px|right|1968 Chevrolet El Camino]]
'''1968 El Camino''' 
The Chevrolet El Camino is a coupe utility vehicle produced by the Chevrolet division of General Motors from 1959 through 1960, with production resuming in 1964 and continuing through 1987. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_El_Camino Wikipedia]
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==Page 26==
'''Fatso Judson''' 
Fatso Judson is the sadistic stockade sergeant played by Ernest Borgnine in "From Here To Eternity," a 1953 drama film based on the novel of the same name by James Jones.

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

==Page 28==
[[File:Donaldstubble.jpg|thumb|150|right|]]
'''Donald and Goofy [...] in fact he's always had to go in ''every day'' and ''shave his beak.''''' 
The cartoon being discussed here is "No Sail" from 1945. Available on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hImIbmRnBU8 Youtube] and the Chronological Donald Volume II DVD [http://www.amazon.com/Walt-Disney-Treasures-Chronological-Donald/dp/B000ATQYU6/ Amazon].
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==Page 29==
'''Mansonoid conspiracy''' 
On August 9, 1969, members of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Manson Charles Manson's] "family" murdered the eight-and-a-half-months-pregnant actress [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Tate Sharon Tate] (wife of director [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Polanski Roman Polanski]) and four others; the next night, they murdered [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leno_and_Rosemary_LaBianca Leno and Rosemary LaBianca]. Manson orchestrated these murders for the sake of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helter_Skelter_%28Manson_scenario%29 Helter Skelter], an apocalyptic war he believed would arise from tension over racial relations between blacks and whites.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[[image:freak-brothers.jpg|right|200px|thumb|caption|Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers]]'''Freak Brothers' dictum''' 
Gilbert Shelton's series of "Underground Comix"—"The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers"—was one of the most popular "Comix" of its time among fans of the form. Featuring the stoned adventures of Freewheelin' Franklin, Phineas T. Freakears, Fat Freddy Freekowtski and the ever popular Fat Freddy's Cat. Famous for [among other things] Freewheelin' Franklin's dictum: "Dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabulous_Furry_Freak_Brothers Wikipedia entry]
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'''[http://www.888bailbond.com/lacounty/parkercenter.html Glass House]''' 
Familiar name of downtown LA's Metropolitan Jail.

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 36==

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

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

==Page 37==
'''the Makaha of Sound''' 
A kind of surfer metaphor. [http://www.surfline.com/surfaz/surfaz.cfm?id=856 Makaha, Hawaii] is legendary for its huge waves.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The joke is based on a misconception of Latin plurals: if stewardess was spelt "stewardus", the plural would be "stewardi". It is only nouns ending in "ius" which are pluralized "-ii", eg radius/radii.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Beach Boys''' 
This must follow some Beach Boys melody. Anyone?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''''abuelita''''' 
Spanish: grandmother

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

==Page 83==
'''''dan'' ranking''' 
The ''dan'' ranking system is a Japanese mark of level is used in martial arts (and also traditional fine arts, including mastery of the board game, Go). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_%28rank%29 Wikipedia entry]

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

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

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

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

==Page 84==
'''gathering pinks as it came''' 
Car slang referring to cars racing for pink slips (the winner wins the loser's car and, thus, obtains the loser's registration slip - which in Calif is pink in color). So, in Pynchon's context, the '56 "Fireflite ragtop" was exhausted (so to speak!) from racing all the way down, and gathering the pink slips (vehicle ownerships) of racing opponents whom it'd beaten along the way.

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

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'''ear trumpet [http://www.phisick.com/a7et30.htm]''' 
An old-fashioned hearing aid, shaped like a funnel to direct sound to the eardrum.
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==Page 351==
'''inherent vice''' 
[http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Inherent_Vice_Title Here's] a good discussion of this phrase.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 363==

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

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==Page 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The joke is based on a misconception of Latin plurals: if stewardess was spelt "stewardus", the plural would be "stewardi". It is only nouns ending in "ius" which are pluralized "-ii", eg radius/radii.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''''abuelita''''' 
Spanish: grandmother

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

==Page 83==
'''''dan'' ranking''' 
The ''dan'' ranking system is a Japanese mark of level is used in martial arts (and also traditional fine arts, including mastery of the board game, Go). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_%28rank%29 Wikipedia entry]

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

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

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

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

==Page 84==
'''gathering pinks as it came''' 
Car slang referring to cars racing for pink slips (the winner wins the loser's car and, thus, obtains the loser's registration slip - which in Calif is pink in color). So, in Pynchon's context, the '56 "Fireflite ragtop" was exhausted (so to speak!) from racing all the way down, and gathering the pink slips (vehicle ownerships) of racing opponents whom it'd beaten along the way.

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

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'''ear trumpet [http://www.phisick.com/a7et30.htm]''' 
An old-fashioned hearing aid, shaped like a funnel to direct sound to the eardrum.
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'''A lunch date had just happened to cancel''' 
Afternoon, Friday, March 27, 1970, the fourth day of the narrative, and Good Friday.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The joke is based on a misconception of Latin plurals: if stewardess was spelt "stewardus", the plural would be "stewardi". It is only nouns ending in "ius" which are pluralized "-ii", eg radius/radii.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''''abuelita''''' 
Spanish: grandmother

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

==Page 83==
'''''dan'' ranking''' 
The ''dan'' ranking system is a Japanese mark of level is used in martial arts (and also traditional fine arts, including mastery of the board game, Go). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_%28rank%29 Wikipedia entry]

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

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

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

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

==Page 84==
'''gathering pinks as it came''' 
Car slang referring to cars racing for pink slips (the winner wins the loser's car and, thus, obtains the loser's registration slip - which in Calif is pink in color). So, in Pynchon's context, the '56 "Fireflite ragtop" was exhausted (so to speak!) from racing all the way down, and gathering the pink slips (vehicle ownerships) of racing opponents whom it'd beaten along the way.

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

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'''ear trumpet [http://www.phisick.com/a7et30.htm]''' 
An old-fashioned hearing aid, shaped like a funnel to direct sound to the eardrum.
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'''A lunch date had just happened to cancel''' 
Afternoon, Friday, March 27, 1970, the fourth day of the narrative, and Good Friday.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The joke is based on a misconception of Latin plurals: if stewardess was spelt "stewardus", the plural would be "stewardi". It is only nouns ending in "ius" which are pluralized "-ii", eg radius/radii.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''''abuelita''''' 
Spanish: grandmother

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

==Page 83==
'''''dan'' ranking''' 
The ''dan'' ranking system is a Japanese mark of level is used in martial arts (and also traditional fine arts, including mastery of the board game, Go). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_%28rank%29 Wikipedia entry]

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

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

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

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

==Page 84==
'''gathering pinks as it came''' 
Car slang referring to cars racing for pink slips (the winner wins the loser's car and, thus, obtains the loser's registration slip - which in Calif is pink in color). So, in Pynchon's context, the '56 "Fireflite ragtop" was exhausted (so to speak!) from racing all the way down, and gathering the pink slips (vehicle ownerships) of racing opponents whom it'd beaten along the way.

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

<div style="clear:both;"></div>

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

'''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 a 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.

The phrase perhaps echoes "Tomorrow is another day," from [http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#Page_18 page 18].

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This could very well be the source for Pynchon's use of "stewardii" which is not a real word, rather it's a joke on Latin plurals, where nouns ending in "ius" are pluralized "-ii", eg radius/radii.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''''abuelita''''' 
Spanish: grandmother

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

==Page 83==
'''''dan'' ranking''' 
The ''dan'' ranking system is a Japanese mark of level is used in martial arts (and also traditional fine arts, including mastery of the board game, Go). [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_%28rank%29 Wikipedia entry]

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

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

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

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

==Page 84==
'''gathering pinks as it came''' 
Car slang referring to cars racing for pink slips (the winner wins the loser's car and, thus, obtains the loser's registration slip - which in Calif is pink in color). So, in Pynchon's context, the '56 "Fireflite ragtop" was exhausted (so to speak!) from racing all the way down, and gathering the pink slips (vehicle ownerships) of racing opponents whom it'd beaten along the way.

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

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

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[[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 pallet 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.]

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[[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.

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

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

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[[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 pallet 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.]

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[[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.

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

==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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'''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==
'''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.

==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]

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'''...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 p. 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 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 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==
'''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]

==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.

'''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.

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'''''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''].

==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]

'''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]

'''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?

==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]. 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?]

'''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.

==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].

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 363==

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

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==Page 89==
'''Doc called Sancho next morning''' 
Morning, Saturday, March 28, 1970, the fifth day of the narrative.

'''Ginger . . . Skipper . . . Gilligan . . . Thurston Howell III . . . Lovey''' 
All are characters from the 1960s TV show [[G#gilligan|''Gilligan's Island'']]. The "code" would presumably be whether the aspiring actress (Ginger/Shasta) would end up with Gilligan/Doc, or whether she would end up with the rich man (Thurston Howell III/Mickey Wolfmann), who might or might not ever divorce his wife (Lovey/Sloane Wolfmann).

==Page 90==
'''Varathaned hatch-covers''' 
[http://www.rustoleum.com/CBGBrand.asp?bid=12 Varathane] is a brand of wood stains and polyurethane sealants.

'''Charlotte Amalie''' 
The largest city and capital of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Amalie,_United_States_Virgin_Islands US Virgina Islands].

'''Like new debt... from institutions in places like South Dakota that you send away for by filling out the back of match cover''' 
Sauncho's quote here echoes almost exactly Zoyd's thoughts in ''Vineland'' in regard to Isaiah Two Four's business proposition: "expecting some address in a distant state, obtained from a matchbook cover." (p. 19, ''Vineland'')

==Page 91==
'''Thomas Arnould''' 
An error. Should be [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Arnould "Joseph Arnould"], who wrote ''Law of Marine Insurance'' (1848).

'''Theophilus Parsons''' 
There were two men ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theophilus_Parsons father] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theophilus_Parsons_(professor) son]) named Theopilus Parsons in the nineteenth century. This reference is to the younger one, who published A Treatise on the Law of Marine Insurance and General Average in 1868.

==Page 92==
'''Your stomach isn't it.''' 
A listless way of saying "It's your stomach, so feel free to order whatever horrible food you desire."

'''L'il buddy''' 
Another reference to ''Gilligan's Island''. "L'il buddy" was the captain's nickname for Gilligan. See [[#Page 89|page 89]] for another instance of Doc being linked to Gilligan.

Also, Hector calls Zoyd this in ''Vineland'', see p. 26. The contraction is spelled li'l in ''Vineland'' but l'il in ''Inherent Vice''. The former is technically correct, since the elision (the "tt") is after the "i" rather than before it.

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

'''Burke Stodger''' 
This name is likely derived from a 1910 ''noir''-ish murder-mystery novel ''Paternoster Ruby'' by Charles Edmonds Walk. Alexander Stilwell Burke and Stodger, a plain-clothes cop, are two main characters. [http://books.google.com/books?id=kd54UWt8QC0C&dq=paternoster+ruby+charles+edmonds+walk&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=mfkqjKBGj4&sig=KGhSLPxiRPQqvVPLhOQ5WNEzSE8&hl=en&ei=mfBrStfrF4uAsgPltqmWBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1 Google Books] Perhaps Pynchon's slyly recycling here some unused stuff from his vast research for ''Against the Day''? A excerpt from Walk's novel:

:"Nasty case," Stodger was imparting, in queer staccato sentences. "Shouldn't have much difficulty, though; responsibility lies between two men. Here all last night. Nobody else. Callahan and O'Brien holdin' 'em. One 's Page's private secretary; fellow named Burke Alexander Stilwell Burke. Peach of a monicker, ain't it? Has all three sections on his cards.

:[...]

:Suddenly she snuggled closer and clasped her hands tightly upon my shoulder. Her hair teased my cheek, and the delicate perfume of it made me light-headed. Twisting her pretty head sideways, she flashed an arch look at me from under her lashes, then glanced quickly away again. Blue eyes and long dark lashes are a potently disturbing combination.

:"Well," she sighed, "the Page case may have cost you a fortune, but it gave you ''me''. And ''I'' for one am very content and happy, Mr. Swift."

==Page 93==
'''a three-hour tour''' 
Yet another reference to ''Gilligan's Island''. This is a quote from the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qycmb7_LvsA theme song].

==Page 95==
'''"deep interrogation"''' 
Well, it ''could'' be a reference to throwing folks into the deep blue sea. However, in the 1970s, long before Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib and "enhanced interrogation," Britain utilized “deep interrogation” techniques in an effort to defeat the Irish Republican Army. ''Constitutions in Crisis: Political Violence and the Rule of Law'' by John E. Finn (Oxford University Press, 1990) examines how the efforts of two western liberal democracies, the United Kingdom and the Federal Republic of Germany, to cope with domestic terrorism threatens their constitutional integrity. Finn argues first that widespread political violence challenges the presuppositions of constitutional authority in any liberal democracy, namely that reason and deliberation, and not passion or will, can be the basis of political community. He defines "deep interrogation":

:"Deep interrogation" a bureaucratic phrase which takes the place of the simpler word "torture" and is worth of Orwell's ''1984'' is on a different level of immorality than hysterical sadism or the indiscriminate bomb of urban guerrillas. It is something organised with imagination and a knowledge of psychology, calculated and cold blooded ... [http://books.google.com/books?id=3s3ZGy0RAK4C&pg=PA69&lpg=PA69&dq=%22deep+interrogation%22+-pynchon&source=bl&ots=sfcbvQr90m&sig=iRr8MpNtWD3Cax-7bqlAwyigsvE&hl=en&ei=JFfZSsr-IIL8sgPgsKGNBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CBMQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22deep%20interrogation%22%20-pynchon&f=false] ([http://www.amazon.com/Constitutions-Crisis-Political-Violence-Rule/dp/0195057384/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255758301&sr=1-1 Buy it...])

==Page 96==
[[image:zuckys.jpg|right|150px|thumb|caption|Zucky's Delicatessen]]'''Zucky's''' 
Pronounced zoo'-keys, Zucky's was run by Zucky and Hy Altman, founders of the SOVA food pantries, and frequented by such celebrities as Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger - who would meet there for breakfast every morning before continuing on to the gym, back in the day. Closed since 1993, it was located at the corner of Wilshire and 5th Street, in Santa Monica. It was one of the few places open after 10pm in Santa Monica.

'''''Marcus Welby, M.D.''''' 
Hour long medical drama that aired on ABC from '69-'76. Took place in Santa Monica and ranked first in Nielsens for the year 1970. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRmhb7mhiB4 View the opening credits] where Zucky's sign appears on the left side at :08 in.

'''what Cheech and Chong might call matzo-ball jones?''' 
Punned reference to "Basketball Jones", song on Cheech and Chong "Los Cochinos" album with release date 1973.

==Page 97==
'''Philip Marlowe''' 
Raymond Chandler's famous detective, featured in Chandler's many novels set in LA, including ''The Big Sleep'' (1939; his first appearance), ''Farewell My Lovely'', and ''The Long Goodbye''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Marlowe] There are many important parallels between Pynchon's Doc and Chandler's Marlowe, especially his world-weariness, his fondness for certain drugs of choice, and a penchant for cracking wise and getting beaten up and worse. (John D. MacDonald's fictional detective Travis McGee is also an important predecessor; see below). Of all Chandler's fiction, ''Farewell My Lovely'' (1940), which many think is Chandler's best, may be most relevant for the plot and themes of ''Inherent Vice''. For instance, in that novel Marlowe stays in a hotel in Venice Beach before going out to Laird Brunette's offshore gambling boat, the ''Montecino''. ''Farewell My Lovely'' also has "rehab" centers that serve as a front for torture and murder; characters with hidden identities; an impossibly convoluted plot; and a literary style that features striking metaphors, similes, and literary allusions. Marlowe is, like Doc, a dark mixture of cynicism, doggedness, and indifference--yet his goodness and inherent virtues can't be killed. To trace the parallels with Chandler's Marlowe, though, is to see how fully Pynchon has transformed and deepened the generic conventions of 1930s and '40s detective fiction (and film noir inspired by it) even as he pays homage to these.

'''Sam Spade''' 
Dashiell Hammett's detective in ''The Maltese Falcon'' (1930) and other crime fiction; in John Huston's famous film based on the novel, he's played by Humphrey Bogart. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Spade]

'''Johnny Staccato''' 
''Johnny Staccato'' is a private detective series which ran for twenty-seven episodes on NBC from 1959-1960. Title character Johnny Staccato, played by John Cassavetes (1929-1989), is a jazz pianist/private detective. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Staccato]

'''Krazy Kat''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krazy_Kat ''Krazy Kat''] was a popular comic strip that ran in newspapers from 1913 to 1944. Ignatz and Offisa Pupp are characters.

'''Steve McGarrett''' 
Detective in the TV show [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii_Five-O ''Hawaii Five-0''], important to both [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_5#Page_60 ''Vineland''] and ''Inherent Vice.''

'''"Why not get a houseboat up in the Sacramento Delta--smoke, drink, fish, fuck..."''' 
It's tough not to see this as a nod to Doc's brother shamus Travis McGee, the creation of Florida writer John D. MacDonald. McGee lives on a houseboat, taking his "retirement in installments," drinking, lounging on Florida beaches, meeting and inevitably helping beautiful women out of troubles that almost always involve a sinister land broker or two. Along the way Trav usually ends up pontificating about rapacious land developers, the increasingly artificial and isolated American lifestyle, and people's loss of connection with the natural world. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_McGee]

==Page 98==
'''Sunrise was on the way''' 
Early morning, Sunday, March 29, 1970, the sixth day of the narrative, and Easter Sunday.

:March 29 doesn't ''quite'' jibe with "It was late winter in Gordita" (line 5) or, on [[#Page_102|page 102]], "the wintertime smell of crude oil..." (line 11). Spring comes sometime between the 19th to the 23rd of March, so according to Pynchon here we're sometime before March 29, yes?

[http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KLAX/1970/3/29/DailyHistory.html?req_city=Los+Angeles+International&req_state=CA&req_statename=California Here] is the weather for March 29--a pretty average day by L.A. standards.

'''[T]he engine sounds were not passing across the sky where they should have . . .''' 
An apparent allusion to the opening line of [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow'']. As a consequence of this, "everybody's dreams got disarranged," which also seems to be happening on ''GR's'' first page.

==Page 99==
'''two plastic skegs''' 
A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeg skeg] is a fin attached to rear of a surfboard.

'''Waimea''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waimea_Bay Waimea Bay], on the North Shore of Oahu in Hawaii, is one of the planet's premier big-wave surfing locations, with gigantic swells in winter. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWHHqw_OniU Video.]

'''Maverick's''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mavericks_%28location%29 Big wave] in Northern California. Trivia alert: apparently named after a dog who swam out with the first people who tried, but failed, to surf the wave. While no one was surfing this now famous wave until the mid-70s, it had been known about at least since 1961. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcioR3ElH60 Video.]

'''Todos Santos''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhQtzxGEG6Y Video] of these big waves [http://www.todossantos-baja.com/todos-santos/surfing/surf-photos.htm near Baja.]

'''riding goofyfoot''' 
This is a surfing/skateboarding term for someone who rides left-footed. So-called regular foot riders keep their left foot at the front of the board, but goofyfoot riders put their right foot at the front. More [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footedness here].

'''Doc, also up early''' 
Early morning, Sunday, March 29, 1970, the sixth day of the narrative.

'''double-cross whites''' 
[http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/streetTerms/ByType.asp?intTypeID=9 Amphetamines].

==Page 100==
'''a surfer or two who'd found and ridden other breaks [...] unphotographed and unrecorded''' 
Even though Pynchon's reference to Mavericks would seem an anachronism, as no one other than a couple surfers had even tried Mavericks until Jeff Clark began riding the gigantic break in 1975, alone, until 1990 when he convinced some other surfers to check it out, this description would seem to fit Jeff Clark perfectly, discovering and surfing, alone, some of the largest waves on the planet. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Clark Jeff Clark Wikipedia entry...] Pynchon himself, as we all know, likes to remain unphotographed.

==Page 101==
'''Surfaris laugh . . . "Hooo-oo-oo-oo---Wipeout!"''' 
[[image:surfaris-dot-decca.jpg|200px|right|thumb|caption|"Wipe Out" - Decca & Dot]][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wipe_Out_(song) "Wipe Out"] was a 1962 hit originally performed by the Surfaris. You can hear the song, including the insane laugh (provided by their producer/manager Dale Smallin) and a 2x4 being cracked in half, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UofdWQG346k here].

The original Dot label version of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH5WGWX4MPg "Wipe Out"] has the laughter on it that Zigzag and Flaco are arguing about, not the later, and less well-known, Decca re-recording. The Surfaris and "Wipe Out" have a surprisingly tangled history:

:Dot records was the national distributer of "Wipe Out" and the label quickly wanted to capitalize on its success, but rather than use the Surfaris they had The Challengers do covers of other intrumental hits. The only songs that are from the Surfaris on the "Wipe Out" LP are the 2 sides of that single. After the single took off they were quickly brought in to tape an album. It was in the can 12 hours later. Only a week went by before it was out in the record bins. This was a big surprise to the Surfaris. They were even more surprised realize that aside from "Wipe Out" and "Surfer Joe" the remainder of the LP was not them! When they confronted their manager (The Laugh guy in the "Wipe Out" intro), he told them the producers had to add a few overdubs and to listen closer. The more they listened the more they doubted this story. Finally the manager admitted that union musicians had been brought in to do the songs they had recorded. When they realized they had no legal binding contract from Dot records they went off in a huff to Decca records and recorded their ''real'' debut LP, "The Surfaris Play". They were required to re-record "Wipe Out" as Dot did have the rights to it! [http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1203]

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Surfaris Wikipedia entry for the Surfaris...]

==Page 102==
[[image:Barney-Fife_bw.jpg|right|caption|thumb|125px|Barney Fife / Don Knotts]]<div id="barney">'''barney quota'''</div>
"Barney" in this context refers to the character Barney Fife from [http://www.theandygriffithshow.net/barney_fife.htm ''The Andy Griffith Show''] an American sitcom which aired on CBS from 1960-1968. Fife was an incompetent blowhard who was overly zealous as a police officer and was played by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Knotts Don Knotts] (1924-2006) [http://www.theandygriffithshow.net/barney_fife.htm More on the Barney Fife character...]

'''in the slow seep of dawn''' 
Early morning, Sunday, March 29, 1970, the sixth day of the narrative.

'''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shikantaza shikantaza]''' 
A Zen Buddhist discipline which recommends "just sitting".

==Page 103==
'''Mira Costa''' 
A [http://www.mchs.manhattan.k12.ca.us/education/school/school.php?sectionid=2 high school] in Manhattan Beach, CA.

==Page 104==
'''laterite''' 
Soil layer rich in iron oxide, formed in tropical and sub-tropical regions. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laterite Wikipedia]

==Page 105==
'''Atlantis and Lemuria''' 
The mythical continent of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemuria_(continent) Lemuria] is mentioned throughout ''Inherent Vice''. Shasta Fay Hepworth's namesake, Mt. Shasta in Northern California is [http://www.lemurianconnection.com/en/about-mount-shasta.htm believed by some] to be the home of Lemuria's survivors.

'''Owsley''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owsley_Stanley Owsley Stanley.] Famous large scale supplier of LSD.

==Page 106==
'''Doc's name then was something like Xqq''' 
Doc's name, and the dual-sun planet on which he resided, is reminiscent of Italo Calvino's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmicomics ''Cosmicomics''] (1965) which takes place billions of years ago before Earth and on an early Earth, and has characters with names such as Qfwfq and (k)yK and Lll. Each story takes a scientific "fact" (though sometimes a falsehood by today's understanding), and builds an imaginative story around it. From the dustjacket blurb:

:The narrator, Qfwfq, spends his childhood in the soundless, timeless void; among the incandescent colors of stellar explosions, he plays with hydrogen atoms like marbles and, sitting astride a galaxy, chases his friend Pfwfp around the firmament. Or, as an adolescent on the new Earth, he has his first shy love affairs with Ayl, Lll, and Mrs. Vhd Vhd...

'''osmium''' 
A chemical element that has the symbol Os and atomic number 76. Osmium is a hard, brittle, blue-gray or blue-black transition metal in the platinum family, and is the densest natural element.

'''you'll be the same size and density''' 
This discussion of Doc's "density" is reminiscent of Mondaugen's Law in [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_505-518#Page_509 ''Gravity's Rainbow'']: "Personal density [...] is directly proportional to temporal bandwidth":

:"Temporal bandwidth" is the width of your present, your ''now''. It is the familiar "delta t" considered as a dependent variable. The more you dwell in the past and in the future, the thicker your bandwidth, the more solid your persona. But the narrower your sense of Now, the more tenuous you are. It may get to where you're having trouble remembering what you were doing five minutes ago, or even as Slothrop now what you're doing ''here'', at the base of this colossal curved embankment... [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_505-518#Page_509]

Well, Doc, transported to Earth 3 billion years in the future, is certainly dwelling the future and indeed his density is very high. However, the Doc we've come to know here more closely seems to fit the description of someone with a very narrow "sense of Now."

==Page 110==
'''They were outside on the beach, it was nighttime''' 
Night, Sunday, March 29, 1970, the sixth day of the narrative.

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==Page 89==
'''Doc called Sancho next morning''' 
Morning, Saturday, March 28, 1970, the fifth day of the narrative.

'''Ginger . . . Skipper . . . Gilligan . . . Thurston Howell III . . . Lovey''' 
All are characters from the 1960s TV show [[G#gilligan|''Gilligan's Island'']]. The "code" would presumably be whether the aspiring actress (Ginger/Shasta) would end up with Gilligan/Doc, or whether she would end up with the rich man (Thurston Howell III/Mickey Wolfmann), who might or might not ever divorce his wife (Lovey/Sloane Wolfmann).

==Page 90==
'''Varathaned hatch-covers''' 
[http://www.rustoleum.com/CBGBrand.asp?bid=12 Varathane] is a brand of wood stains and polyurethane sealants.

'''Charlotte Amalie''' 
The largest city and capital of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Amalie,_United_States_Virgin_Islands US Virgina Islands].

'''Like new debt... from institutions in places like South Dakota that you send away for by filling out the back of match cover''' 
Sauncho's quote here echoes almost exactly Zoyd's thoughts in ''Vineland'' in regard to Isaiah Two Four's business proposition: "expecting some address in a distant state, obtained from a matchbook cover." (p. 19, ''Vineland'')

==Page 91==
'''Thomas Arnould''' 
An error. Should be [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Arnould "Joseph Arnould"], who wrote ''Law of Marine Insurance'' (1848).

'''Theophilus Parsons''' 
There were two men ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theophilus_Parsons father] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theophilus_Parsons_(professor) son]) named Theopilus Parsons in the nineteenth century. This reference is to the younger one, who published A Treatise on the Law of Marine Insurance and General Average in 1868.

==Page 92==
'''Your stomach isn't it.''' 
A listless way of saying "It's your stomach, so feel free to order whatever horrible food you desire."

'''L'll buddy''' 
Another reference to ''Gilligan's Island''. "L'il buddy" was the captain's nickname for Gilligan.

Also, Hector calls Zoyd this in ''Vineland'', see p. 26. The contraction is spelled li'l in ''Vineland'' but l'il in ''Inherent Vice''.

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

'''Burke Stodger''' 
This name is likely derived from a 1910 ''noir''-ish murder-mystery novel ''Paternoster Ruby'' by Charles Edmonds Walk. Alexander Stilwell Burke and Stodger, a plain-clothes cop, are two main characters. [http://books.google.com/books?id=kd54UWt8QC0C&dq=paternoster+ruby+charles+edmonds+walk&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=mfkqjKBGj4&sig=KGhSLPxiRPQqvVPLhOQ5WNEzSE8&hl=en&ei=mfBrStfrF4uAsgPltqmWBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1 Google Books] Perhaps Pynchon's slyly recycling here some unused stuff from his vast research for ''Against the Day''? A excerpt from Walk's novel:

:"Nasty case," Stodger was imparting, in queer staccato sentences. "Shouldn't have much difficulty, though; responsibility lies between two men. Here all last night. Nobody else. Callahan and O'Brien holdin' 'em. One 's Page's private secretary; fellow named Burke Alexander Stilwell Burke. Peach of a monicker, ain't it? Has all three sections on his cards.

:[...]

:Suddenly she snuggled closer and clasped her hands tightly upon my shoulder. Her hair teased my cheek, and the delicate perfume of it made me light-headed. Twisting her pretty head sideways, she flashed an arch look at me from under her lashes, then glanced quickly away again. Blue eyes and long dark lashes are a potently disturbing combination.

:"Well," she sighed, "the Page case may have cost you a fortune, but it gave you ''me''. And ''I'' for one am very content and happy, Mr. Swift."

==Page 93==
'''a three-hour tour''' 
Yet another reference to ''Gilligan's Island''. This is a quote from the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qycmb7_LvsA theme song].

==Page 95==
'''"deep interrogation"''' 
Well, it ''could'' be a reference to throwing folks into the deep blue sea. However, in the 1970s, long before Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib and "enhanced interrogation," Britain utilized “deep interrogation” techniques in an effort to defeat the Irish Republican Army. ''Constitutions in Crisis: Political Violence and the Rule of Law'' by John E. Finn (Oxford University Press, 1990) examines how the efforts of two western liberal democracies, the United Kingdom and the Federal Republic of Germany, to cope with domestic terrorism threatens their constitutional integrity. Finn argues first that widespread political violence challenges the presuppositions of constitutional authority in any liberal democracy, namely that reason and deliberation, and not passion or will, can be the basis of political community. He defines "deep interrogation":

:"Deep interrogation" a bureaucratic phrase which takes the place of the simpler word "torture" and is worth of Orwell's ''1984'' is on a different level of immorality than hysterical sadism or the indiscriminate bomb of urban guerrillas. It is something organised with imagination and a knowledge of psychology, calculated and cold blooded ... [http://books.google.com/books?id=3s3ZGy0RAK4C&pg=PA69&lpg=PA69&dq=%22deep+interrogation%22+-pynchon&source=bl&ots=sfcbvQr90m&sig=iRr8MpNtWD3Cax-7bqlAwyigsvE&hl=en&ei=JFfZSsr-IIL8sgPgsKGNBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CBMQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22deep%20interrogation%22%20-pynchon&f=false] ([http://www.amazon.com/Constitutions-Crisis-Political-Violence-Rule/dp/0195057384/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255758301&sr=1-1 Buy it...])

==Page 96==
[[image:zuckys.jpg|right|150px|thumb|caption|Zucky's Delicatessen]]'''Zucky's''' 
Pronounced zoo'-keys, Zucky's was run by Zucky and Hy Altman, founders of the SOVA food pantries, and frequented by such celebrities as Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger - who would meet there for breakfast every morning before continuing on to the gym, back in the day. Closed since 1993, it was located at the corner of Wilshire and 5th Street, in Santa Monica. It was one of the few places open after 10pm in Santa Monica.

'''''Marcus Welby, M.D.''''' 
Hour long medical drama that aired on ABC from '69-'76. Took place in Santa Monica and ranked first in Nielsens for the year 1970. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRmhb7mhiB4 View the opening credits] where Zucky's sign appears on the left side at :08 in.

'''what Cheech and Chong might call matzo-ball jones?''' 
Punned reference to "Basketball Jones", song on Cheech and Chong "Los Cochinos" album with release date 1973.

==Page 97==
'''Philip Marlowe''' 
Raymond Chandler's famous detective, featured in Chandler's many novels set in LA, including ''The Big Sleep'' (1939; his first appearance), ''Farewell My Lovely'', and ''The Long Goodbye''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Marlowe] There are many important parallels between Pynchon's Doc and Chandler's Marlowe, especially his world-weariness, his fondness for certain drugs of choice, and a penchant for cracking wise and getting beaten up and worse. (John D. MacDonald's fictional detective Travis McGee is also an important predecessor; see below). Of all Chandler's fiction, ''Farewell My Lovely'' (1940), which many think is Chandler's best, may be most relevant for the plot and themes of ''Inherent Vice''. For instance, in that novel Marlowe stays in a hotel in Venice Beach before going out to Laird Brunette's offshore gambling boat, the ''Montecino''. ''Farewell My Lovely'' also has "rehab" centers that serve as a front for torture and murder; characters with hidden identities; an impossibly convoluted plot; and a literary style that features striking metaphors, similes, and literary allusions. Marlowe is, like Doc, a dark mixture of cynicism, doggedness, and indifference--yet his goodness and inherent virtues can't be killed. To trace the parallels with Chandler's Marlowe, though, is to see how fully Pynchon has transformed and deepened the generic conventions of 1930s and '40s detective fiction (and film noir inspired by it) even as he pays homage to these.

'''Sam Spade''' 
Dashiell Hammett's detective in ''The Maltese Falcon'' (1930) and other crime fiction; in John Huston's famous film based on the novel, he's played by Humphrey Bogart. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Spade]

'''Johnny Staccato''' 
''Johnny Staccato'' is a private detective series which ran for twenty-seven episodes on NBC from 1959-1960. Title character Johnny Staccato, played by John Cassavetes (1929-1989), is a jazz pianist/private detective. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Staccato]

'''Krazy Kat''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krazy_Kat ''Krazy Kat''] was a popular comic strip that ran in newspapers from 1913 to 1944. Ignatz and Offisa Pupp are characters.

'''Steve McGarrett''' 
Detective in the TV show [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii_Five-O ''Hawaii Five-0''], important to both [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_5#Page_60 ''Vineland''] and ''Inherent Vice.''

'''"Why not get a houseboat up in the Sacramento Delta--smoke, drink, fish, fuck..."''' 
It's tough not to see this as a nod to Doc's brother shamus Travis McGee, the creation of Florida writer John D. MacDonald. McGee lives on a houseboat, taking his "retirement in installments," drinking, lounging on Florida beaches, meeting and inevitably helping beautiful women out of troubles that almost always involve a sinister land broker or two. Along the way Trav usually ends up pontificating about rapacious land developers, the increasingly artificial and isolated American lifestyle, and people's loss of connection with the natural world. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_McGee]

==Page 98==
'''Sunrise was on the way''' 
Early morning, Sunday, March 29, 1970, the sixth day of the narrative, and Easter Sunday.

:March 29 doesn't ''quite'' jibe with "It was late winter in Gordita" (line 5) or, on [[#Page_102|page 102]], "the wintertime smell of crude oil..." (line 11). Spring comes sometime between the 19th to the 23rd of March, so according to Pynchon here we're sometime before March 29, yes?

[http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KLAX/1970/3/29/DailyHistory.html?req_city=Los+Angeles+International&req_state=CA&req_statename=California Here] is the weather for March 29--a pretty average day by L.A. standards.

'''[T]he engine sounds were not passing across the sky where they should have . . .''' 
An apparent allusion to the opening line of [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow'']. As a consequence of this, "everybody's dreams got disarranged," which also seems to be happening on ''GR's'' first page.

==Page 99==
'''two plastic skegs''' 
A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeg skeg] is a fin attached to rear of a surfboard.

'''Waimea''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waimea_Bay Waimea Bay], on the North Shore of Oahu in Hawaii, is one of the planet's premier big-wave surfing locations, with gigantic swells in winter. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWHHqw_OniU Video.]

'''Maverick's''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mavericks_%28location%29 Big wave] in Northern California. Trivia alert: apparently named after a dog who swam out with the first people who tried, but failed, to surf the wave. While no one was surfing this now famous wave until the mid-70s, it had been known about at least since 1961. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcioR3ElH60 Video.]

'''Todos Santos''' 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhQtzxGEG6Y Video] of these big waves [http://www.todossantos-baja.com/todos-santos/surfing/surf-photos.htm near Baja.]

'''riding goofyfoot''' 
This is a surfing/skateboarding term for someone who rides left-footed. So-called regular foot riders keep their left foot at the front of the board, but goofyfoot riders put their right foot at the front. More [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footedness here].

'''Doc, also up early''' 
Early morning, Sunday, March 29, 1970, the sixth day of the narrative.

'''double-cross whites''' 
[http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/streetTerms/ByType.asp?intTypeID=9 Amphetamines].

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'''a surfer or two who'd found and ridden other breaks [...] unphotographed and unrecorded''' 
Even though Pynchon's reference to Mavericks would seem an anachronism, as no one other than a couple surfers had even tried Mavericks until Jeff Clark began riding the gigantic break in 1975, alone, until 1990 when he convinced some other surfers to check it out, this description would seem to fit Jeff Clark perfectly, discovering and surfing, alone, some of the largest waves on the planet. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Clark Jeff Clark Wikipedia entry...] Pynchon himself, as we all know, likes to remain unphotographed.

==Page 101==
'''Surfaris laugh . . . "Hooo-oo-oo-oo---Wipeout!"''' 
[[image:surfaris-dot-decca.jpg|200px|right|thumb|caption|"Wipe Out" - Decca & Dot]][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wipe_Out_(song) "Wipe Out"] was a 1962 hit originally performed by the Surfaris. You can hear the song, including the insane laugh (provided by their producer/manager Dale Smallin) and a 2x4 being cracked in half, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UofdWQG346k here].

The original Dot label version of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH5WGWX4MPg "Wipe Out"] has the laughter on it that Zigzag and Flaco are arguing about, not the later, and less well-known, Decca re-recording. The Surfaris and "Wipe Out" have a surprisingly tangled history:

:Dot records was the national distributer of "Wipe Out" and the label quickly wanted to capitalize on its success, but rather than use the Surfaris they had The Challengers do covers of other intrumental hits. The only songs that are from the Surfaris on the "Wipe Out" LP are the 2 sides of that single. After the single took off they were quickly brought in to tape an album. It was in the can 12 hours later. Only a week went by before it was out in the record bins. This was a big surprise to the Surfaris. They were even more surprised realize that aside from "Wipe Out" and "Surfer Joe" the remainder of the LP was not them! When they confronted their manager (The Laugh guy in the "Wipe Out" intro), he told them the producers had to add a few overdubs and to listen closer. The more they listened the more they doubted this story. Finally the manager admitted that union musicians had been brought in to do the songs they had recorded. When they realized they had no legal binding contract from Dot records they went off in a huff to Decca records and recorded their ''real'' debut LP, "The Surfaris Play". They were required to re-record "Wipe Out" as Dot did have the rights to it! [http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1203]

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Surfaris Wikipedia entry for the Surfaris...]

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[[image:Barney-Fife_bw.jpg|right|caption|thumb|125px|Barney Fife / Don Knotts]]<div id="barney">'''barney quota'''</div>
"Barney" in this context refers to the character Barney Fife from [http://www.theandygriffithshow.net/barney_fife.htm ''The Andy Griffith Show''] an American sitcom which aired on CBS from 1960-1968. Fife was an incompetent blowhard who was overly zealous as a police officer and was played by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Knotts Don Knotts] (1924-2006) [http://www.theandygriffithshow.net/barney_fife.htm More on the Barney Fife character...]

'''in the slow seep of dawn''' 
Early morning, Sunday, March 29, 1970, the sixth day of the narrative.

'''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shikantaza shikantaza]''' 
A Zen Buddhist discipline which recommends "just sitting".

==Page 103==
'''Mira Costa''' 
A [http://www.mchs.manhattan.k12.ca.us/education/school/school.php?sectionid=2 high school] in Manhattan Beach, CA.

==Page 104==
'''laterite''' 
Soil layer rich in iron oxide, formed in tropical and sub-tropical regions. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laterite Wikipedia]

==Page 105==
'''Atlantis and Lemuria''' 
The mythical continent of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemuria_(continent) Lemuria] is mentioned throughout ''Inherent Vice''. Shasta Fay Hepworth's namesake, Mt. Shasta in Northern California is [http://www.lemurianconnection.com/en/about-mount-shasta.htm believed by some] to be the home of Lemuria's survivors.

'''Owsley''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owsley_Stanley Owsley Stanley.] Famous large scale supplier of LSD.

==Page 106==
'''Doc's name then was something like Xqq''' 
Doc's name, and the dual-sun planet on which he resided, is reminiscent of Italo Calvino's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmicomics ''Cosmicomics''] (1965) which takes place billions of years ago before Earth and on an early Earth, and has characters with names such as Qfwfq and (k)yK and Lll. Each story takes a scientific "fact" (though sometimes a falsehood by today's understanding), and builds an imaginative story around it. From the dustjacket blurb:

:The narrator, Qfwfq, spends his childhood in the soundless, timeless void; among the incandescent colors of stellar explosions, he plays with hydrogen atoms like marbles and, sitting astride a galaxy, chases his friend Pfwfp around the firmament. Or, as an adolescent on the new Earth, he has his first shy love affairs with Ayl, Lll, and Mrs. Vhd Vhd...

'''osmium''' 
A chemical element that has the symbol Os and atomic number 76. Osmium is a hard, brittle, blue-gray or blue-black transition metal in the platinum family, and is the densest natural element.

'''you'll be the same size and density''' 
This discussion of Doc's "density" is reminiscent of Mondaugen's Law in [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_505-518#Page_509 ''Gravity's Rainbow'']: "Personal density [...] is directly proportional to temporal bandwidth":

:"Temporal bandwidth" is the width of your present, your ''now''. It is the familiar "delta t" considered as a dependent variable. The more you dwell in the past and in the future, the thicker your bandwidth, the more solid your persona. But the narrower your sense of Now, the more tenuous you are. It may get to where you're having trouble remembering what you were doing five minutes ago, or even as Slothrop now what you're doing ''here'', at the base of this colossal curved embankment... [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_505-518#Page_509]

Well, Doc, transported to Earth 3 billion years in the future, is certainly dwelling the future and indeed his density is very high. However, the Doc we've come to know here more closely seems to fit the description of someone with a very narrow "sense of Now."

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'''They were outside on the beach, it was nighttime''' 
Night, Sunday, March 29, 1970, the sixth day of the narrative.

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 209==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 217==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

:Be still, my haunted heart . . . 

:< instrumental break > 

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

:Be still, my haunted heart . . . 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 162==

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

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

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

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

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

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

[[File:1969Oldsmobile.jpg|thumb|right|1969 Oldsmobile, photo by [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1969_Oldsmobile_Ninety-Eight-3.jpg Stripedtomato]]]
'''Leo and Elmina Sportello's 1969 Oldsmobile'''
<div style="clear:both"></div>

==Page 114==
'''a spot just down the hill good at least till midnight''' 
Night, the seventh day of the narrative, Monday, March 30, 1970.

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

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

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

==Page 117==
[[File:289_Mustang.jpg|thumb|right|Maroon 289 Mustang]]
'''a maroon 289 Mustang''' 
Sauncho's classic beach-town ride. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'''Code 7''' 
Meal break.

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

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

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

==Page 209==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 217==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

:Be still, my haunted heart . . . 

:< instrumental break > 

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

:Be still, my haunted heart . . . 

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

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

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==Page 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.

'''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" (37).

'''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.

==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" (37).

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

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

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

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

==Page 209==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 217==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

:Be still, my haunted heart . . . 

:< instrumental break > 

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

:Be still, my haunted heart . . . 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 28==
[[File:Donaldstubble.jpg|thumb|150|right|]]
'''Donald and Goofy [...] in fact he's always had to go in ''every day'' and ''shave his beak.''''' 
The cartoon being discussed here is "No Sail" from 1945. Available on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hImIbmRnBU8 Youtube] and the Chronological Donald Volume II DVD [http://www.amazon.com/Walt-Disney-Treasures-Chronological-Donald/dp/B000ATQYU6/ Amazon].
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'''Mansonoid conspiracy''' 
On August 9, 1969, members of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Manson Charles Manson's] "family" murdered the eight-and-a-half-months-pregnant actress [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Tate Sharon Tate] (wife of director [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Polanski Roman Polanski]) and four others; the next night, they murdered [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leno_and_Rosemary_LaBianca Leno and Rosemary LaBianca]. Manson orchestrated these murders for the sake of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helter_Skelter_%28Manson_scenario%29 Helter Skelter], an apocalyptic war he believed would arise from tension over racial relations between blacks and whites.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[[image:freak-brothers.jpg|right|200px|thumb|caption|Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers]]'''Freak Brothers' dictum''' 
Gilbert Shelton's series of "Underground Comix"—"The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers"—was one of the most popular "Comix" of its time among fans of the form. Featuring the stoned adventures of Freewheelin' Franklin, Phineas T. Freakears, Fat Freddy Freekowtski and the ever popular Fat Freddy's Cat. Famous for [among other things] Freewheelin' Franklin's dictum: "Dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabulous_Furry_Freak_Brothers Wikipedia entry]
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'''[http://www.888bailbond.com/lacounty/parkercenter.html Glass House]''' 
Familiar name of downtown LA's Metropolitan Jail.

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

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

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

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

==Page 36==

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

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

==Page 37==
'''the Makaha of Sound''' 
A kind of surfer metaphor. [http://www.surfline.com/surfaz/surfaz.cfm?id=856 Makaha, Hawaii] is legendary for its huge waves.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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==Page 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.

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

==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.

==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.

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'''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" (37).

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

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

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

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

==Page 209==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 217==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

:Be still, my haunted heart . . . 

:< instrumental break > 

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

:Be still, my haunted heart . . . 

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

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

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==Page 124==
'''headed up to Topanga that afternoon''' 
Afternoon, the ninth day of the narrative, Wednesday, April 1, 1970.

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

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

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

[[File:Hokusai.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Great Wave off Kanagawa, image from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa Wikipedia]]]
'''Hokusai's famous ''Great Wave off Kanagawa''''' 
a famous woodblock print. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa Wikipedia]
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'''uncountableth''' 
In mathematics, "uncountable" is used to describe the size of infinite sets larger than the set of natural numbers. Pynchon's use of the word here is deliberately oxymoronic. See also the reference to George Cantor further in the same paragraph.

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

'''Cantor's Delicatessen''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Cantor Georg Cantor] (1845-1918) was a German mathematician who pioneered the subject of set theory, now at the foundation of all modern mathematics. He proved that there are different sizes of infinity - for example, the set of natural numbers is smaller than the set of real numbers, though both sets are infinite. The name of the restaurant is a play on the real [http://www.cantersdeli.com/ Canter's Deli] in Los Angeles, established 1931.

==Page 127==
'''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotted_dick Spotted Dick]''' 
Spotted Dick is a suet pudding served in England.

'''[http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_762505728/general_pause.html General Pause]''' 
A musical rest during which the entire ensemble remains silent.

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

In both parallel time storylines (1970 and 1840), one or more characters went to a specific room in Collinwood which shifted periodically from one universe to the other, so if you were in the room at the wrong (right) time, suddenly you were surrounded by people who looked like the people you knew (played by the same actors), but had different personalities, different relationships, and sometimes different names.

If this is April 1, 1970, here's a plot summary of today's show from [http://www.darkshadows.com/cgi-bin/eplist.pl?ep=983 darkshadows.com], all in parallel time today:

:Daniel plans to drive Maggie out of Collinwood. Quentin tells Chris to make sure Bruno Hess, another loyal friend of Angelique, is kicked off the estate. Daniel frightens Maggie by having Amy hum a tune, making it sound like it was coming from Angelique's portrait; Amy later tells Daniel that she did not make the humming sound.

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

In [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''V.''] Pynchon talks about [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Mirror_Time "Mirror Time"]:

:"Rachel was looking into the mirror at an angle of 45°, and so had a view of the face turned toward the room and the face on the other side, reflected in the mirror; here were time and reverse-time, co-existing, cancelling one another exactly out. Were there many such reference points, scattered through the world, perhaps only at nodes like this room which housed a transient population of the imperfect, the dissatisfied [...]" ([http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Mirror_Time ''V.'', p.46])

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

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

An [http://www.upload-mp3.com/files/84678_nuehq/HanonFarfisa.mp3 MP3] of Hanon's Exercise 1 played on a Farfisa (actually a synthesizer emulating a Farfisa).

'''Farfisa''' 
One of the first electric keyboards/organs used in rock 'n' roll. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farfisa Wikipedia entry...] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkvK638yKuY "Ninety-six Tears" by ? & the Mysterians] is a classic example of the Farfisa sound, as is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O6x_m4zvFs&feature=fvw "Light My Fire" by the Doors].

==Page 130==
'''George Formby''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Formby,_Jr. George Formby, Jr.] performed "Leaning on a Lamppost" (written by Noel Gay) which Herman's Hermits covered. Tyrone Slothrop, protagonist of ''Gravity's Rainbow'' is described as "sort of an American George Formby, if you can imagine such a thing." Obvious influence on "The Bonzo Dog Band." Here's a video of George Formby singing [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEymZ3rXOmc Leaning On A Lamp Post.]

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

'''abrazo''' 
Spanish for hug.

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

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

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

==Page 134==
'''no longer saw the headlights''' 
Evening, the ninth day of the narrative, Wednesday, April 1, 1970.

==Page 135==
'''hoddible''' 
The way an old-movie society lady might pronounce "horrible"

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

'''did he happen to catch the game with Phoenix''' 
Daytime, the tenth day of the narrative, Thursday, April 2, 1970. Doc is probably referring to the second game of the Western Conference playoffs. The Lakers beat Phoenix 114-101 on March 29. Again, Pynchon has anchored the text in real time by referring to an NBA playoff game.

This is probably as good a time as any to mention that the 69-70 NBA season was a big one for Lakers fans. Bill Russell had just retired as a player, after leading the Celtics to 11 of the last 13 championships. Finally, other teams would have a shot at the title. The Lakers thought that the title would be theirs. Unfortunately for Lakers fans, so did the Knicks.

'''Upstairs, Bigfoot, strangely jumpy today''' 
The '''today''' is what identifies this as Daytime, the tenth day of the narrative, Thursday, April 2, 1970.

==Page 140==
'''a hippie belief of the moment''' 
I don't know about the magazine articles, but this rumor was making the rounds at just about this time. It is odd, however, that Bigfoot's addiction to, and supply of, chocolate-covered frozen bananas is described in such detail here, and then is never mentioned again in the novel.

'''--not logical, Captain''' 
Star Trek reference, a phrase often spoken by Spock to Kirk.

==Page 141==
[[File:Triumph_Bonneville_T120.jpg|thumb|right|Triumph Bonneville T120, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_Bonneville_T120 Wikipedia]]]
'''Triumph Bonneville T120'''

[[File:Kawasaki_Mach_III.jpg|thumb|right|Kawasaki Mach III, photo by [http://www.flickr.com/photos/optikalblitz/2447598991/ optikal / Creative Commons]]] 
'''Kawasaki Mach III'''

==Page 142==
'''Around lunchtime, next day''' 
Midday, the eleventh day of the narrative, Friday, April 3, 1970.

'''Sinvergüenza''' 
Spanish for "scoundrel" or "rogue."

==Page 143==
'''SS396''' 
[http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Cars_mentioned_in_Inherent_Vice#SS396 Photo]

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

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

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

'''Looking forward to a peaceful morning in the office''' 
Morning, the twelfth day of the narrative, Saturday, April 4, 1970.

==Page 146==
'''"Cootie food!'''" 
What Doc means is "le coup de foudre," aka "bolt of lightning." This echos Reef's 'rounder Italian'; "Say surly topple!" he would scream..." (page 889) from [[Against the Day]]. 
The English meaning, if it has one, and the explanation for Clancy Charlock's response to Doc, is unclear. It may perhaps refer to the childish fear of being infected by a sort of imaginary germ borne by the opposite sex and known as "cooties," which - possibly - makes a member of the opposite sex whom you touch "cootie food." Or, it could just be a very idiosyncratic reference to oral sex. 

Another possibility is that Doc, whose French is likely weaker than his Spanish, memorized the phrase phonetically as "cootie food", since he would not have known the spelling when it was told to him. Assuming Clancy understands French, or at least this particular idiom, her reply is fairly natural.

The phrase is apparently used - at least in the South, and not commonly - to refer to unappetizing or unclean food.

Cooties is slang for crabs or lice.

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

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

The film's romantic smoke sequence, repeated during the film and much parodied, featured Paul Henried placing two cigarettes in his lips, lighting them both, then handing one to Bette Davis. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-KGiwGn1d8 YouTube]

==Page 148==
'''That night Doc met Clancy''' 
Evening, the twelfth day of the narrative, Saturday, April 4, 1970.

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

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

==Page 151==
'''forget the Smith''' 
Doc is presumably referring to the revolver in his ankle holser, which Boris rather obviously noticed a few lines earlier ("glancing quickly down in the direction of Doc's ankle rig"). "Smith" is short for "Smith & Wesson."

==Page 153==
'''"Happy Trails to You"''' 
Besides the reference to Roy Roger's theme song, this phrase is a favorite double entendre among those who use psychedelic drugs. "Acid trails" are a common hallucination produced by LSD.

Also the title (and last track) of the 1968, "live", genre-defining, acid-rock album by the Quicksilver Messenger Service [http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/1108947/a/Happy+Trails.htm]

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==Page 124==
'''headed up to Topanga that afternoon''' 
Afternoon, the ninth day of the narrative, Wednesday, April 1, 1970.

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

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

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

[[File:Hokusai.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Great Wave off Kanagawa, image from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa Wikipedia]]]
'''Hokusai's famous ''Great Wave off Kanagawa''''' 
a famous woodblock print. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa Wikipedia]
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==Page 126==
'''uncountableth''' 
In mathematics, "uncountable" is used to describe the size of infinite sets larger than the set of natural numbers. Pynchon's use of the word here is deliberately oxymoronic. See also the reference to George Cantor further in the same paragraph.

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

'''Cantor's Delicatessen''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Cantor Georg Cantor] (1845-1918) was a German mathematician who pioneered the subject of set theory, now at the foundation of all modern mathematics. He proved that there are different sizes of infinity - for example, the set of natural numbers is smaller than the set of real numbers, though both sets are infinite. The name of the restaurant is a play on the real [http://www.cantersdeli.com/ Canter's Deli] in Los Angeles, established 1931.

==Page 127==
'''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotted_dick Spotted Dick]''' 
Spotted Dick is a suet pudding served in England.

'''[http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_762505728/general_pause.html General Pause]''' 
A musical rest during which the entire ensemble remains silent.

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

In both parallel time storylines (1970 and 1840), one or more characters went to a specific room in Collinwood which shifted periodically from one universe to the other, so if you were in the room at the wrong (right) time, suddenly you were surrounded by people who looked like the people you knew (played by the same actors), but had different personalities, different relationships, and sometimes different names.

If this is April 1, 1970, here's a plot summary of today's show from [http://www.darkshadows.com/cgi-bin/eplist.pl?ep=983 darkshadows.com], all in parallel time today:

:Daniel plans to drive Maggie out of Collinwood. Quentin tells Chris to make sure Bruno Hess, another loyal friend of Angelique, is kicked off the estate. Daniel frightens Maggie by having Amy hum a tune, making it sound like it was coming from Angelique's portrait; Amy later tells Daniel that she did not make the humming sound.

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

In [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''V.''] Pynchon talks about [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Mirror_Time "Mirror Time"]:

:"Rachel was looking into the mirror at an angle of 45°, and so had a view of the face turned toward the room and the face on the other side, reflected in the mirror; here were time and reverse-time, co-existing, cancelling one another exactly out. Were there many such reference points, scattered through the world, perhaps only at nodes like this room which housed a transient population of the imperfect, the dissatisfied [...]" ([http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Mirror_Time ''V.'', p.46])

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

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

An [http://www.upload-mp3.com/files/84678_nuehq/HanonFarfisa.mp3 MP3] of Hanon's Exercise 1 played on a Farfisa (actually a synthesizer emulating a Farfisa).

'''Farfisa''' 
One of the first electric keyboards/organs used in rock 'n' roll. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farfisa Wikipedia entry...] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkvK638yKuY "Ninety-six Tears" by ? & the Mysterians] is a classic example of the Farfisa sound, as is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O6x_m4zvFs&feature=fvw "Light My Fire" by the Doors].

==Page 130==
'''George Formby''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Formby,_Jr. George Formby, Jr.] performed "Leaning on a Lamppost" (written by Noel Gay) which Herman's Hermits covered. Tyrone Slothrop, protagonist of ''Gravity's Rainbow'' is described as "sort of an American George Formby, if you can imagine such a thing." Obvious influence on "The Bonzo Dog Band." Here's a video of George Formby singing [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEymZ3rXOmc Leaning On A Lamp Post.]

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

'''abrazo''' 
Spanish for hug.

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

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

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

==Page 134==
'''no longer saw the headlights''' 
Evening, the ninth day of the narrative, Wednesday, April 1, 1970.

==Page 135==
'''hoddible''' 
The way an old-movie society lady might pronounce "horrible"

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

'''did he happen to catch the game with Phoenix''' 
Daytime, the tenth day of the narrative, Thursday, April 2, 1970. Doc is probably referring to the second game of the Western Conference playoffs. The Lakers beat Phoenix 114-101 on March 29. Again, Pynchon has anchored the text in real time by referring to an NBA playoff game.

This is probably as good a time as any to mention that the 69-70 NBA season was a big one for Lakers fans. Bill Russell had just retired as a player, after leading the Celtics to 11 of the last 13 championships. Finally, other teams would have a shot at the title. The Lakers thought that the title would be theirs. Unfortunately for Lakers fans, so did the Knicks.

'''Upstairs, Bigfoot, strangely jumpy today''' 
The '''today''' is what identifies this as Daytime, the tenth day of the narrative, Thursday, April 2, 1970.

==Page 140==
'''a hippie belief of the moment''' 
I don't know about the magazine articles, but this rumor was making the rounds at just about this time.

'''--not logical, Captain''' 
Star Trek reference, a phrase often spoken by Spock to Kirk.

==Page 141==
[[File:Triumph_Bonneville_T120.jpg|thumb|right|Triumph Bonneville T120, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_Bonneville_T120 Wikipedia]]]
'''Triumph Bonneville T120'''

[[File:Kawasaki_Mach_III.jpg|thumb|right|Kawasaki Mach III, photo by [http://www.flickr.com/photos/optikalblitz/2447598991/ optikal / Creative Commons]]] 
'''Kawasaki Mach III'''

==Page 142==
'''Around lunchtime, next day''' 
Midday, the eleventh day of the narrative, Friday, April 3, 1970.

'''Sinvergüenza''' 
Spanish for "scoundrel" or "rogue."

==Page 143==
'''SS396''' 
[http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Cars_mentioned_in_Inherent_Vice#SS396 Photo]

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

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

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

'''Looking forward to a peaceful morning in the office''' 
Morning, the twelfth day of the narrative, Saturday, April 4, 1970.

==Page 146==
'''"Cootie food!'''" 
What Doc means is "le coup de foudre," aka "bolt of lightning." This echos Reef's 'rounder Italian'; "Say surly topple!" he would scream..." (page 889) from [[Against the Day]]. 
The English meaning, if it has one, and the explanation for Clancy Charlock's response to Doc, is unclear. It may perhaps refer to the childish fear of being infected by a sort of imaginary germ borne by the opposite sex and known as "cooties," which - possibly - makes a member of the opposite sex whom you touch "cootie food." Or, it could just be a very idiosyncratic reference to oral sex. 

Another possibility is that Doc, whose French is likely weaker than his Spanish, memorized the phrase phonetically as "cootie food", since he would not have known the spelling when it was told to him. Assuming Clancy understands French, or at least this particular idiom, her reply is fairly natural.

The phrase is apparently used - at least in the South, and not commonly - to refer to unappetizing or unclean food.

Cooties is slang for crabs or lice.

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

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

The film's romantic smoke sequence, repeated during the film and much parodied, featured Paul Henried placing two cigarettes in his lips, lighting them both, then handing one to Bette Davis. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-KGiwGn1d8 YouTube]

==Page 148==
'''That night Doc met Clancy''' 
Evening, the twelfth day of the narrative, Saturday, April 4, 1970.

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

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

==Page 151==
'''forget the Smith''' 
Doc is presumably referring to the revolver in his ankle holser, which Boris rather obviously noticed a few lines earlier ("glancing quickly down in the direction of Doc's ankle rig"). "Smith" is short for "Smith & Wesson."

==Page 153==
'''"Happy Trails to You"''' 
Besides the reference to Roy Roger's theme song, this phrase is a favorite double entendre among those who use psychedelic drugs. "Acid trails" are a common hallucination produced by LSD.

Also the title (and last track) of the 1968, "live", genre-defining, acid-rock album by the Quicksilver Messenger Service [http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/1108947/a/Happy+Trails.htm]

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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 p. 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 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 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==
'''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]

==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.

'''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''].

==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]

'''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]

'''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?

==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]. 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?]

'''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.

==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].

'''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]

{{Inherent Vice PbP}}

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 p. 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 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 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==
'''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]

==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.

'''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''].

==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]

'''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]

'''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?

==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]. 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?]

'''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'').

'''Dennis 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.

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'''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].

'''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]

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'''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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'''Some college break or something.''' 
Saturday, May 2, 1970, six days after Easter. It's plausible that Spring Break could be going on.

'''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.

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'''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.

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'''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.

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'''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.

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'''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 

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

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

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

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

==Page 209==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Trillium''' 

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

==Page 217==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

:Be still, my haunted heart . . . 

:< instrumental break > 

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

:Be still, my haunted heart . . . 

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

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

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'''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?

'''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].

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'''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].

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'''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].

'''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]]] 

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'''headed up to Topanga that afternoon''' 
Afternoon, the ninth day of the narrative, Wednesday, April 1, 1970.

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

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

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

[[File:Hokusai.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Great Wave off Kanagawa, image from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa Wikipedia]]]
'''Hokusai's famous ''Great Wave off Kanagawa''''' 
a famous woodblock print. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa Wikipedia]
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'''uncountableth''' 
In mathematics, "uncountable" is used to describe the size of infinite sets larger than the set of natural numbers. Pynchon's use of the word here is deliberately oxymoronic. See also the reference to George Cantor further in the same paragraph.

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

'''Cantor's Delicatessen''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Cantor Georg Cantor] (1845-1918) was a German mathematician who pioneered the subject of set theory, now at the foundation of all modern mathematics. He proved that there are different sizes of infinity - for example, the set of natural numbers is smaller than the set of real numbers, though both sets are infinite. The name of the restaurant is a play on the real [http://www.cantersdeli.com/ Canter's Deli] in Los Angeles, established 1931.

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'''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotted_dick Spotted Dick]''' 
Spotted Dick is a suet pudding served in England.

'''[http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_762505728/general_pause.html General Pause]''' 
A musical rest during which the entire ensemble remains silent.

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

In both parallel time storylines (1970 and 1840), one or more characters went to a specific room in Collinwood which shifted from one universe to the other, so if you were in the room at the wrong (right) time, suddenly you were surrounded by people who looked like the people you knew (played by the same actors), but had different personalities, different relationships, and sometimes different names.

If this is April 1, 1970, here's a plot summary of today's show from [http://www.darkshadows.com/cgi-bin/eplist.pl?ep=983 darkshadows.com], all in parallel time today:

:Daniel plans to drive Maggie out of Collinwood. Quentin tells Chris to make sure Bruno Hess, another loyal friend of Angelique, is kicked off the estate. Daniel frightens Maggie by having Amy hum a tune, making it sound like it was coming from Angelique's portrait; Amy later tells Daniel that she did not make the humming sound.

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

In [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''V.''] Pynchon talks about [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Mirror_Time "Mirror Time"]:

:"Rachel was looking into the mirror at an angle of 45°, and so had a view of the face turned toward the room and the face on the other side, reflected in the mirror; here were time and reverse-time, co-existing, cancelling one another exactly out. Were there many such reference points, scattered through the world, perhaps only at nodes like this room which housed a transient population of the imperfect, the dissatisfied [...]" ([http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Mirror_Time ''V.'', p.46])

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

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

An [http://www.upload-mp3.com/files/84678_nuehq/HanonFarfisa.mp3 MP3] of Hanon's Exercise 1 played on a Farfisa (actually a synthesizer emulating a Farfisa).

'''Farfisa''' 
One of the first electric keyboards/organs used in rock 'n' roll. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farfisa Wikipedia entry...] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkvK638yKuY "Ninety-six Tears" by ? & the Mysterians] is a classic example of the Farfisa sound, as is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O6x_m4zvFs&feature=fvw "Light My Fire" by the Doors].

==Page 130==
'''George Formby''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Formby,_Jr. George Formby, Jr.] performed "Leaning on a Lamppost" (written by Noel Gay) which Herman's Hermits covered. Tyrone Slothrop, protagonist of ''Gravity's Rainbow'' is described as "sort of an American George Formby, if you can imagine such a thing." Obvious influence on "The Bonzo Dog Band." Here's a video of George Formby singing [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEymZ3rXOmc Leaning On A Lamp Post.]

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

'''abrazo''' 
Spanish for hug.

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

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

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

==Page 134==
'''no longer saw the headlights''' 
Evening, the ninth day of the narrative, Wednesday, April 1, 1970.

==Page 135==
'''hoddible''' 
The way an old-movie society lady might pronounce "horrible"

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

'''did he happen to catch the game with Phoenix''' 
Daytime, the tenth day of the narrative, Thursday, April 2, 1970. Doc is probably referring to the second game of the Western Conference playoffs. The Lakers beat Phoenix 114-101 on March 29. Again, Pynchon has anchored the text in real time by referring to an NBA playoff game.

This is probably as good a time as any to mention that the 69-70 NBA season was a big one for Lakers fans. Bill Russell had just retired as a player, after leading the Celtics to 11 of the last 13 championships. Finally, other teams would have a shot at the title. The Lakers thought that the title would be theirs. Unfortunately for Lakers fans, so did the Knicks.

'''Upstairs, Bigfoot, strangely jumpy today''' 
The '''today''' is what identifies this as Daytime, the tenth day of the narrative, Thursday, April 2, 1970.

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'''a hippie belief of the moment''' 
I don't know about the magazine articles, but this rumor was making the rounds at just about this time.

'''--not logical, Captain''' 
Star Trek reference, a phrase often spoken by Spock to Kirk.

==Page 141==
[[File:Triumph_Bonneville_T120.jpg|thumb|right|Triumph Bonneville T120, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_Bonneville_T120 Wikipedia]]]
'''Triumph Bonneville T120'''

[[File:Kawasaki_Mach_III.jpg|thumb|right|Kawasaki Mach III, photo by [http://www.flickr.com/photos/optikalblitz/2447598991/ optikal / Creative Commons]]] 
'''Kawasaki Mach III'''

==Page 142==
'''Around lunchtime, next day''' 
Midday, the eleventh day of the narrative, Friday, April 3, 1970.

'''Sinvergüenza''' 
Spanish for "scoundrel" or "rogue."

==Page 143==
'''SS396''' 
[http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Cars_mentioned_in_Inherent_Vice#SS396 Photo]

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

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

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

'''Looking forward to a peaceful morning in the office''' 
Morning, the twelfth day of the narrative, Saturday, April 4, 1970.

==Page 146==
'''"Cootie food!'''" 
What Doc means is "le coup de foudre," aka "bolt of lightning." This echos Reef's 'rounder Italian'; "Say surly topple!" he would scream..." (page 889) from [[Against the Day]]. 
The English meaning, if it has one, and the explanation for Clancy Charlock's response to Doc, is unclear. It may perhaps refer to the childish fear of being infected by a sort of imaginary germ borne by the opposite sex and known as "cooties," which - possibly - makes a member of the opposite sex whom you touch "cootie food." Or, it could just be a very idiosyncratic reference to oral sex. 

Another possibility is that Doc, whose French is likely weaker than his Spanish, memorized the phrase phonetically as "cootie food", since he would not have known the spelling when it was told to him. Assuming Clancy understands French, or at least this particular idiom, her reply is fairly natural.

The phrase is apparently used - at least in the South, and not commonly - to refer to unappetizing or unclean food.

Cooties is slang for crabs or lice.

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

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

The film's romantic smoke sequence, repeated during the film and much parodied, featured Paul Henried placing two cigarettes in his lips, lighting them both, then handing one to Bette Davis. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-KGiwGn1d8 YouTube]

==Page 148==
'''That night Doc met Clancy''' 
Evening, the twelfth day of the narrative, Saturday, April 4, 1970.

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

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

==Page 151==
'''forget the Smith''' 
Doc is presumably referring to the revolver in his ankle holser, which Boris rather obviously noticed a few lines earlier ("glancing quickly down in the direction of Doc's ankle rig"). "Smith" is short for "Smith & Wesson."

==Page 153==
'''"Happy Trails to You"''' 
Besides the reference to Roy Roger's theme song, this phrase is a favorite double entendre among those who use psychedelic drugs. "Acid trails" are a common hallucination produced by LSD.

Also the title (and last track) of the 1968, "live", genre-defining, acid-rock album by the Quicksilver Messenger Service [http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/1108947/a/Happy+Trails.htm]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 363==

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

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==Page 166==
'''Brylcreem''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brylcreem Brylcreem] is a hair styling oil/gel for men that was very popular. It gives hair a wet, oily look.

'''on the natch''' 
"natch" is short for "natural" and "on the natch," in this context, means sober. On [[Chapter_15#Page_273|pg. 273]], the perennially sober Bigfoot is described as a "literal-minded natch-meister."

==Page 168==
'''Leuzinger High''' 
A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leuzinger_High_School real] high school, in Lawndale, California, which - particularly in the story's time period - was a relatively undesirable and low-priced city in the LA area.

'''Dr. Blatnoyd''' 
Probably a play on the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blat_%28Russia%29 term] of Russian origin, meaning a man with underworld connections or a career criminal.

==Page 170==
'''Section Eight hippies''' 
Section Eight is low income housing funded with a federal subsidy.

==Page 171==
'''Japonica Fenway''' 
"Japonica" is just a Latinization of "Japanese," but it is most commonly used in formal Latin plant names. There are a wide variety of "____ Japonica" plants, such as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camellia_japonica Camellia Japonica]. While it's not really possible to make any universal statement about such widely varied species, they tend to be ornamental and hardy. [[Plants of Inherent Vice|See: Plants of Inherent Vice]]

'''Crocker Fenway''' 
It is possible the first name is inspired by the character "Crocker Jarmon" from the movie [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068334/ The Candidate (1972)]. The character in the movie is an establishment, incumbent GOP Senator from California.

The first names of both characters may also refer to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocker_National_Bank Crocker National Bank], which historically was a conservative, Republican institution. [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,847658,00.html 1936 Time Magazine reference], [http://articles.latimes.com/1986-05-27/business/fi-7509_1 1986 Article].

'''the ancient American Indian belief that if you save somebody's life, you are responsible for them from then on, forever''' 
Last seen in Against the Day with Foley Walker and Scarsdale Vibe.

==Page 172==
'''Governor Reagan''' 
Ronald Reagan was governor of California from 1967 to 1975.

==Page 175==
[[File:MercedesSedan.jpg|thumb|200px|right|1960 Mercedes-Benz W128 Sedan, image from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_W128 Wikipedia]]]
'''Mercedes sedan''' 
ten-year-old Mercedes sedan with a roof panel

'''late rush-hour traffic''' 
Should be afternoon, the thirteenth day of the narrative, Sunday, April 5, 1970, but why would there be rush hour traffic? Why would postcards be delivered today, and why would the Golden Fang be open?.

==Page 176==
'''outdoor concerts where thousands . . . public self''' 
A good description of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock Woodstock], which had just taken place the previous year.

'''each person was listening in solitude, confinement and mutual silence''' 
Perhaps a foreshadowing of the iPod generation?

'''''head''phones!''' 
Here, "head" refers to drugs, as in [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=head+shop "head shop"].

'''Doc noticed (a) it was now dark''' 
Should be evening, the thirteenth day of the narrative, Sunday, April 5, 1970.

==Page 180==
'''Things were weird for a few days with the Dart''' 
The timeline gets broken here. From the end of the book to this point--from April 26 to May 8--the narrator has made it easy to follow the events of the book in real time. The narrator puts Doc to bed at night, gets him up in the morning, points out television shows and events.

The first half of the book, thirteen days up to the "few days" the Dart was in the shop, can also be matched with real time events. For example, Doc's parents visit during a division semifinal game between the 76ers and the Bucks. That series was played from March 25 to April 3. That would mean that the Dart was in the shop for a couple of weeks. Given the regret that Doc felt over a less-than-24-hour delay in the first and second days of the narrative, it's difficult to believe that he would drop the case for that long. Perhaps some kind of ''Dark Shadows'' parallel time is at work.

Or maybe Pynchon, contrary to reputation but like most authors, hasn't been perfectly careful about the relationship between his story's timeline and the real calendar's.

'''When he finally went over to pick up his ride''' 
Probably morning, Saturday, April 25, 1970. See below for an explanation of "probably". The obvious reference is to the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who also came back on a Sunday. This is not Easter Sunday, though. It occurred on March 29 in 1970.

==Page 181==

'''Quonset hut''' 
Prefabricated metal building with a semicircular cross section. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quonset_hut Wikipedia]

''''64 Dodge Dart'''
[[Image:1964_Dodge_Dart.jpg|left|thumb|210px|1964 Dodge Dart Sedan, photo by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:64_Dodge_Dart_F34.jpg Scheinwerfermann]
]]

 
==Page 182==
'''I'll buy you lunch''' 
Probably morning, Saturday, April 25, 1970. I say probably because it seems unlikely that Doc could have lunch with Tito, make a few phone calls, and drive to Ojai, getting there before lunchtime. The narrator has been pretty careful, though, from the end of the book to this point in noting the ends and beginnings of days.

'''They went down Pico . . . before repeating an ethnic category.''' 
A possible nod to noted LA chowhound Johnathan Gold, who got his start as a Pulitzer Prize winning food critic eating his way across ethnic LA along Pico Blvd. Profiled here on NPR's [http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=110 "This American Life"] (See: ''Act Five. Taste.'')

==Page 184==

'''1934 Hispano-Suiza J12'''
[[File:Hispano-SuizaJ12.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Hispano-Suiza J12, photo from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispano-Suiza Wikipedia]‎]]

==Page 185==

'''Gold fang''' 
According to Google language tools, the Greek for "gold tooth" would be pronounced [http://translate.google.com/translate_t?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&text=gold+tooth&sl=en&tl=el# "chrysó dónti"].

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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?

'''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].

==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]]] 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This could very well be the source for Pynchon's use of "stewardii" which is not a real word, rather it's a joke on Latin plurals, where nouns ending in "ius" are pluralized "-ii", eg radius/radii.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

==Page 76==
'''Ralph's''' 
Ubiquitous grocery chain in California. Plays an important role in the Coen brothers' ''The Big Lebowski'', a film to which Inherent Vice is often compared. 
'''Coming out of work later in the day''' 
Afternoon, Friday, March 27, 1970, the fourth day of the narrative.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''''abuelita''''' 
Spanish: grandmother

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'''ear trumpet [http://www.phisick.com/a7et30.htm]''' 
An old-fashioned hearing aid, shaped like a funnel to direct sound to the eardrum.
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'''headed up to Topanga that afternoon''' 
Afternoon, the ninth day of the narrative, Wednesday, April 1, 1970.

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

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

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

[[File:Hokusai.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Great Wave off Kanagawa, image from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa Wikipedia]]]
'''Hokusai's famous ''Great Wave off Kanagawa''''' 
a famous woodblock print. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa Wikipedia]
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'''uncountableth''' 
In mathematics, "uncountable" is used to describe the size of infinite sets larger than the set of natural numbers. Pynchon's use of the word here is deliberately oxymoronic. See also the reference to George Cantor further in the same paragraph.

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

'''Cantor's Delicatessen''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Cantor Georg Cantor] (1845-1918) was a German mathematician who pioneered the subject of set theory, now at the foundation of all modern mathematics. He proved that there are different sizes of infinity - for example, the set of natural numbers is smaller than the set of real numbers, though both sets are infinite. The name of the restaurant is a play on the real [http://www.cantersdeli.com/ Canter's Deli] in Los Angeles, established 1931.

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'''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotted_dick Spotted Dick]''' 
Spotted Dick is a suet pudding served in England.

'''[http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_762505728/general_pause.html General Pause]''' 
A musical rest during which the entire ensemble remains silent.

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

In both parallel time storylines (1970 and 1840), one or more characters went to a specific room in Collinwood which shifted from one universe to the other, so if you were in the room at the wrong (right) time, suddenly you were surrounded by people who looked like the people you knew (played by the same actors), but had different personalities, different relationships, and sometimes different names.

If this is April 1, 1970, here's a plot summary of today's show from [http://www.darkshadows.com/cgi-bin/eplist.pl?ep=983 darkshadows.com], all in parallel time today:

:Daniel plans to drive Maggie out of Collinwood. Quentin tells Chris to make sure Bruno Hess, another loyal friend of Angelique, is kicked off the estate. Daniel frightens Maggie by having Amy hum a tune, making it sound like it was coming from Angelique's portrait; Amy later tells Daniel that she did not make the humming sound.

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

In [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''V.''] Pynchon talks about [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Mirror_Time "Mirror Time"]:

:"Rachel was looking into the mirror at an angle of 45°, and so had a view of the face turned toward the room and the face on the other side, reflected in the mirror; here were time and reverse-time, co-existing, cancelling one another exactly out. Were there many such reference points, scattered through the world, perhaps only at nodes like this room which housed a transient population of the imperfect, the dissatisfied [...]" ([http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Mirror_Time ''V.'', p.46])

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

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

An [http://www.upload-mp3.com/files/84678_nuehq/HanonFarfisa.mp3 MP3] of Hanon's Exercise 1 played on a Farfisa (actually a synthesizer emulating a Farfisa).

'''Farfisa''' 
One of the first electric keyboards/organs used in rock 'n' roll. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farfisa Wikipedia entry...] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkvK638yKuY "Ninety-six Tears" by ? & the Mysterians] is a classic example of the Farfisa sound, as is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O6x_m4zvFs&feature=fvw "Light My Fire" by the Doors].

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'''George Formby''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Formby,_Jr. George Formby, Jr.] performed "Leaning on a Lamppost" (written by Noel Gay) which Herman's Hermits covered. Tyrone Slothrop, protagonist of ''Gravity's Rainbow'' is described as "sort of an American George Formby, if you can imagine such a thing." Obvious influence on "The Bonzo Dog Band." Here's a video of George Formby singing [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEymZ3rXOmc Leaning On A Lamp Post.]

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

'''abrazo''' 
Spanish for hug.

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

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

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

==Page 134==
'''no longer saw the headlights''' 
Evening, the ninth day of the narrative, Wednesday, April 1, 1970.

==Page 135==
'''hoddible''' 
The way an old-movie society lady might pronounce "horrible"

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

'''did he happen to catch the game with Phoenix''' 
Daytime, the tenth day of the narrative, Thursday, April 2, 1970. Doc is probably referring to the second game of the Western Conference playoffs. The Lakers beat Phoenix 114-101 on March 29. Again, Pynchon has anchored the text in real time by referring to an NBA playoff game.

This is probably as good a time as any to mention that the 69-70 NBA season was a big one for Lakers fans. Bill Russell had just retired as a player, after leading the Celtics to 11 of the last 13 championships. Finally, other teams would have a shot at the title. The Lakers thought that the title would be theirs. Unfortunately for Lakers fans, so did the Knicks.

'''Upstairs, Bigfoot, strangely jumpy today''' 
The '''today''' is what identifies this as Daytime, the tenth day of the narrative, Thursday, April 2, 1970.

==Page 140==
'''--not logical, Captain''' 
Star Trek reference, a phrase often spoken by Spock to Kirk.

==Page 141==
[[File:Triumph_Bonneville_T120.jpg|thumb|right|Triumph Bonneville T120, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_Bonneville_T120 Wikipedia]]]
'''Triumph Bonneville T120'''

[[File:Kawasaki_Mach_III.jpg|thumb|right|Kawasaki Mach III, photo by [http://www.flickr.com/photos/optikalblitz/2447598991/ optikal / Creative Commons]]] 
'''Kawasaki Mach III'''

==Page 142==
'''Around lunchtime, next day''' 
Midday, the eleventh day of the narrative, Friday, April 3, 1970.

'''Sinvergüenza''' 
Spanish for "scoundrel" or "rogue."

==Page 143==
'''SS396''' 
[http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Cars_mentioned_in_Inherent_Vice#SS396 Photo]

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

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

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

'''Looking forward to a peaceful morning in the office''' 
Morning, the twelfth day of the narrative, Saturday, April 4, 1970.

==Page 146==
'''"Cootie food!'''" 
What Doc means is "le coup de foudre," aka "bolt of lightning." This echos Reef's 'rounder Italian'; "Say surly topple!" he would scream..." (page 889) from [[Against the Day]]. 
The English meaning, if it has one, and the explanation for Clancy Charlock's response to Doc, is unclear. It may perhaps refer to the childish fear of being infected by a sort of imaginary germ borne by the opposite sex and known as "cooties," which - possibly - makes a member of the opposite sex whom you touch "cootie food." Or, it could just be a very idiosyncratic reference to oral sex. 

Another possibility is that Doc, whose French is likely weaker than his Spanish, memorized the phrase phonetically as "cootie food", since he would not have known the spelling when it was told to him. Assuming Clancy understands French, or at least this particular idiom, her reply is fairly natural.

The phrase is apparently used - at least in the South, and not commonly - to refer to unappetizing or unclean food.

Cooties is slang for crabs or lice.

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

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

The film's romantic smoke sequence, repeated during the film and much parodied, featured Paul Henried placing two cigarettes in his lips, lighting them both, then handing one to Bette Davis. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-KGiwGn1d8 YouTube]

==Page 148==
'''That night Doc met Clancy''' 
Evening, the twelfth day of the narrative, Saturday, April 4, 1970.

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

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

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'''forget the Smith''' 
Doc is presumably referring to the revolver in his ankle holser, which Boris rather obviously noticed a few lines earlier ("glancing quickly down in the direction of Doc's ankle rig"). "Smith" is short for "Smith & Wesson."

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'''"Happy Trails to You"''' 
Besides the reference to Roy Roger's theme song, this phrase is a favorite double entendre among those who use psychedelic drugs. "Acid trails" are a common hallucination produced by LSD.

Also the title (and last track) of the 1968, "live", genre-defining, acid-rock album by the Quicksilver Messenger Service [http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/1108947/a/Happy+Trails.htm]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'''I may have a few minutes free around noon''' 
Morning, Friday, March 27, 1970, the fourth day of the narrative, and Good Friday.

==Page 56==
'''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]

Interestingly, "Bang, Bang" is not only a bonus track on the 2007 edition of "The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse," but it's also listed as "previously unreleased." Does anyone have the liner notes and can tell us more?

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.

'''Vibrasonic''' 
Made by Motorola, the Vibrasonic car radio featured "reverberant sound" by sending a delayed signal to the rear speakers.

==Page 57==
'''Some kidnapping.''' 
Doc doesn't ''hear'' some kidnapping; rather, he's being skeptical that a kidnapping has occurred, given the frivolity taking place, which he also expresses in the last paragraph on p. 61. Like "Yeah, right ... ''some'' kidnapping (eyes rolling)"...

'''which seemed to extend indefinitely in the direction of Pasadena''' 
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].

==Page 58==
'''Little Church of the West''' 
Since 1942, celebrities as well as ordinary folks have been getting married in this Las Vegas [http://www.littlechurchlv.com/?sec=history wedding chapel].

'''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]

The quotation is, at least approximately, taken from Robert Caro's biography of Moses, The Power Broker.

'''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] 

'''The midday ''refrescos'' now, if you wouldn't mind''' 
Noonish, Friday, March 27, 1970, the fourth day of the narrative.

==Page 60==
'''We recently endowed another facility, in Ojai''' 
This will turn out to be the Chryskylodon Institute, the upscale rehab outfit, which is first mentioned by name on [[Chapter_5#Page_111|p. 111]].

'''the name of the institution [...] a long, foreign-looking word''' 
The Chryskylodon Institute (see above).

==Page 61==
'''Shall I be Mother?''' 
This is a British expression sometimes used when offering to [http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/Shall+I+be+mother%3F pour tea].

'''Doc didn't actually see them "exchanging glances" as Frank might have put it ...''' 
A reference to Frank Sinatra's performance of "Strangers in the Night" (Kaempfert/Singleton/Snyder):

:"Strangers in the night exchanging glances 
:Wondering in the night 
:What were the chances we'd be sharing love 
:Before the night was through? 

==Page 62==
'''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].

'''quadrille paper''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_paper Graph paper], which, of course, is what Pynchon wrote ''Gravity's Rainbow'' on, at least according to [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Thomas_Pynchon#Gravity.27s_Rainbow_and_Pynchon.27s_rise_to_prominence oft-repeated] legend.

'''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''.

==Page 64==
'''¿Dónde estás, mi hijita?''' 
Spanish for "Where are you, my daughter?"

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

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

'''Dominguez Flood Control Channel''' 
"The Dominguez Channel extends from the Los Angeles International Airport to the Los Angeles Harbor and drains large if not all portions of the cities of Inglewood, Hawthorne, El Segundo, Gardena, Lawndale, Redondo Beach, Torrance, Carson and Los Angeles." [http://www.theriverproject.org/dominguez.html The River Project]

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'''bigger inside than out''' 
This trope of spaces with interiors larger than they appear from the outside is also present in Pynchon's 1997 novel [http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Mason & Dixon'']:

:Our Coach is a late invention of the Jesuits [...] wherein the inside is quite notably larger than the outside, though the fact cannot be appreciated until one is inside. ([http://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_35:_349-361#Page_354 p. 354])

==Page 22==
'''caused Doc about then to swoon abruptly and lose an unknown amount of his day.''' 
It's still Wednesday, March 25, 1970, the second day of the narrative.

'''"Congratulations, hippie scum [...] and welcome to a world of inconvenience."''' 
Detective Lieutenant Bigfoot Bjornsen echos Walter Sobchak from the 1998 Coen brothers film [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lebowski ''The Big Lebowski'']: "Smokey, my friend, you are entering a world of pain."

'''30-weight voice''' 
30-weight is shorthand for automobile engine oil.

'''chocolate-covered frozen banana''' 
Very appropriate for Bigfoot, whose namesake is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigfoot an ape-like creature], to have as his "trademark snack" a banana. And it is quite a delicious snack, actually: [http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/gale-gand/chocolate-dipped-frozen-bananas-recipe/index.html recipe].

'''to gaze tubeward''' 
Which is exactly what the denizens of Channel View Estates would be doing, viewing channels.

==Page 23==
'''Doc made out in the afternoon light'''
 Afternoon, Wednesday, March 25, 1970, the second day of the narrative.
==Page 24==
'''Forgetful dope fiends should be more cautious about whom they wish to act out their wacko fantasies upon.''' 
Foreshadows Charles Manson who first appears on [[#Page 29|page 29]].

[[File:68Elcamino.jpg|thumb|150px|right|1968 Chevrolet El Camino]]
'''1968 El Camino''' 
The Chevrolet El Camino is a coupe utility vehicle produced by the Chevrolet division of General Motors from 1959 through 1960, with production resuming in 1964 and continuing through 1987. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_El_Camino Wikipedia]
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'''Fatso Judson''' 
Fatso Judson is the sadistic stockade sergeant played by Ernest Borgnine in "From Here To Eternity," a 1953 drama film based on the novel of the same name by James Jones.

'''It wasn't until the middle of rush hour''' 
Late afternoon, Wednesday, March 25, 1970, the second day of the narrative.
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[[File:Donaldstubble.jpg|thumb|150|right|]]
'''Donald and Goofy [...] in fact he's always had to go in ''every day'' and ''shave his beak.''''' 
The cartoon being discussed here is "No Sail" from 1945. Available on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hImIbmRnBU8 Youtube] and the Chronological Donald Volume II DVD [http://www.amazon.com/Walt-Disney-Treasures-Chronological-Donald/dp/B000ATQYU6/ Amazon].
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'''Mansonoid conspiracy''' 
On August 9, 1969, members of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Manson Charles Manson's] "family" murdered the eight-and-a-half-months-pregnant actress [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Tate Sharon Tate] (wife of director [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Polanski Roman Polanski]) and four others; the next night, they murdered [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leno_and_Rosemary_LaBianca Leno and Rosemary LaBianca]. Manson orchestrated these murders for the sake of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helter_Skelter_%28Manson_scenario%29 Helter Skelter], an apocalyptic war he believed would arise from tension over racial relations between blacks and whites.

'''After no more than an hour of this''' 
Early evening Wednesday, March 25, 1970, the second day of the narrative.

'''some longhair sympathizer of a DDA''' 
Presumably referring to Penny (first mentioned on page 4).

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'''the local news came on''' 
Early evening Wednesday, March 25, 1970, the second day of the narrative.

'''the Santa Anas''' 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Ana_winds Santa Ana winds] are strong, hot, dry winds commonly experienced in southern California.

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'''intended to give the victim mouth-to-mouth''' 
This car-to-human interaction is similar to [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_12#Page_230 a scene in ''Vineland''] in which Rex has sex with his Porsche, which also recalls Rachel Owlglass's intimate relationship with her MG in [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1 Chapter 1 of ''V.''].

'''Not the one with the ''r'' in it''' 
Benzidine is a chemical used to detect blood. Benzedrine is an amphetamine.

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'''huaraches''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huarache_(shoe) Huaraches] are Mexican sandals often associated with California surf culture. See, for example, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfin%27_Safari_%28song%29 the Beach Boys' "Surfin' Safari"] (1963): "You'd see 'em wearing their baggies / Huarache sandals too ...."

'''the satanic Detective . . . everything in it that money could buy''' 
This is a biblical allusion to Matthew, chapter 4, in which Jesus is led to the desert and tempted by the devil: "Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. 'All this I will give you,' he said, 'if you will bow down and worship me.'"

Also, similar to how Hector must have worked on Zoyd in [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Vineland'']: "Hector had been trying over and over for years to develop him as a resource, and so far technically Zoyd had hung on to his virginity... But... He kept coming back, each time with a new and more demented plan..." ([http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#Page_12 p. 12 ''Vineland''])

[[image:freak-brothers.jpg|right|200px|thumb|caption|Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers]]'''Freak Brothers' dictum''' 
Gilbert Shelton's series of "Underground Comix"—"The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers"—was one of the most popular "Comix" of its time among fans of the form. Featuring the stoned adventures of Freewheelin' Franklin, Phineas T. Freakears, Fat Freddy Freekowtski and the ever popular Fat Freddy's Cat. Famous for [among other things] Freewheelin' Franklin's dictum: "Dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabulous_Furry_Freak_Brothers Wikipedia entry]
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'''[http://www.888bailbond.com/lacounty/parkercenter.html Glass House]''' 
Familiar name of downtown LA's Metropolitan Jail.

'''bricks and bricks of shit stacked to the roof''' 
In [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Vineland''], the police try to frame Zoyd by putting an enormous stash of pot in his house: "the biggest block of pressed marijuana Zoyd had ever seen in his life, too big to have fit through any door yet towering there, mysteriously, a shaggy monolithic slab reaching almost to the ceiling" ([http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_14#Page_294 pg. 294]).

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'''At the office next day''' 
Thursday, March 26, 1970, the third day of the narrative.

'''Sidney Omarr''' 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Omarr Sydney Omarr] (an apparent spelling mistake on Pynchon's part) was a popular astrologer whose horoscopes were syndicated in many papers, including the ''LA Times''.

==Page 36==

'''hizaz kar''' 
Variant spelling of ''hijaz kar''. Dick Dale's famous ''Misirlou'' is in fact a Greek tune based on the scale of Makam Hijaz Kar (E-F-G#-A-B-C-D#), and is playable on a single string of a guitar. ''Misirlou'' is one of the most famous of "Surf" tunes, thanks in large part to its presence on the Beach Boys album ''Surfin' USA'' and its inclusion in the soundtrack of the film ''Pulp Fiction''. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misirlou Wikipedia]; [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIU0RMV_II8 Great 1963 clip of Dick Dale & the Deltones performing "Misirlou" from the 1963 movie ''A Swingin' Affair''] (Is that a young Al Franken on bass?)

'''In the kitchen hung a creeping fig''' 
This highly invasive plant is also mentioned on the first page of [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1 ''Vineland''], suggesting creeps and invasions and the like which occur in both novels.

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'''the Makaha of Sound''' 
A kind of surfer metaphor. [http://www.surfline.com/surfaz/surfaz.cfm?id=856 Makaha, Hawaii] is legendary for its huge waves.

'''kazoo''' 
I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that every Pynchon novel has a kazoo.
Who can forget Boyd Beaver's All Kazoo Orchestra?

'''Chantays, the Trashmen, the Halibuts''' 
Three surf bands, two famous, one an anachronism time traveling backwards from the 80's. The Chantays famous for "Pipeline" is presented here on the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j09C8clJaXo Lawrence Welk] show, May 18, 1963. The immortal Trashmen gave us "Surfin' Bird" and the Halibuts were a 1980s surf-revival group.

'''Coy and I should've met cute''' 
A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet_cute "meet cute"]is a movie term that describes a contrived, humorous meeting between two possible romantic partners (e.g., a boy and girl bump into each other on the street then fall in love). In the 1934 film ''The Gay Divorce'', with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, in the song "Looking for a Needle in a Haystack", Astaire sings about finding the woman of his dreams whose name he never learned after they had had a "cute meet."

Roger Mexico and Jessica Swanlake are described as having had "what Hollywood likes to call a 'cute meet'" in Pynchon's 1973 novel [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Gravity's Rainbow''], on [http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pages_37-42#Page_38 page 38].

==Page 38==
'''Charles Manson''' 
The Manson family murders play an important thematic role in this novel. Is it possible that Pynchon timed the release of this novel to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the tragedy (August 1969)?

==Page 39==
'''El Drano''' 
Besides the associations mentioned here, Drano was rumored to be used to "step on" heroin (completely substitute for or augment the quantity of). Also, "Christmas tree meth" is slang for Green Methamphetamine produced using Drano crystals, although this might be anachronistic.

==Page 42==
'''Here I am . . . to save the day!''' 
Amethyst is singing (albeit incorrectly) the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b21nxQ6nffE theme song of the Mighty Mouse cartoon]. 
This passage is as significant for what is ''not'' on the television as it is for what ''is'' on. If ''Mighty Mouse'' is on, it's between 4:00 and 4:30 P.M., meaning that ''Dark Shadows'', which shares the time slot on another channel, is not on. Which is not the case at a certain zombie-infested mansion.

==Page 43==
'''Later in the afternoon''' 
Afternoon, Thursday, March 26, 1970, the third day of the narrative.

'''Scott Oof''' 
Doc's cousin and lead guitar in the surf band the Corvairs, Oof also is a character in Pynchon's 1990 novel [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ ''Vineland''], playing essentially the same character:

:After a bit, Corvairs lead guitar and vocalist Scott Oof wandered in from the kitchen to join them, leaning on the doorjamb playing with his hair. ([http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_3#Page p.23])

'''Scott had been playing with a local group known as the Corvairs, till half of them had decided to join the northward migration of those years to Humboldt, Vineland, and Del Norte.''' Pynchon migrated north along with many of the young people he knew from the South Bay to Humboldt county. /CW/
This passage reinforces the connection between ''Inherent Vice'' and ''Vineland''. So Oof had remained in Southern California, while half the band migrated north to Vineland.

Oof's name also opens a rabbithole to the comic genius of P.G. Wodehouse. [http://www.answers.com/topic/oofy-prosser "Oofy" Prosser] is a frequent co-conspirator in the Wooster-Jeeves comedies. [http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/85323.html "Oof"] is also 20th C. British slang for moolah, pelf, wealth, geedis.

Note that many different surf music groups in many different times and places adopted "The Corvairs" as a nom-de-band.

'''The Big Valley''' 
The Big Valley is an American television Western which ran on ABC from September 15, 1965 to May 19, 1969, starring Barbara Stanwyck, as a California widowed mother. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Valley Wikipedia] As a major-league movie star during the golden age of Noir, Barbara Stanwyck co-starred with Fred MacMurray and Edward G. Robinson in Billy Wilder's classic [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Indemnity_(film) Double Indemnity], scripted by Raymond Chandler.

This song from Scott Oof's band Beer points towards the San Joaquin Valley, which in 1970 was about the un-hippest place in the known universe.

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'''Today, after a deceptively sunny and uneventful spin''' 
Friday, March 27, 1970, the fourth day of the narrative, and Good Friday.

'''Hughes Company property''' 
Hughes Aircraft Company was a major aerospace and defense company founded by Howard Hughes. The group was based in Culver City, California. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_Aircraft Wikipedia]

==Page 51==
'''KQAS''' 
In [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ''Vineland''], while hassling dopers in Gordita Beach, Hector Zuniga's radio dial was always tuned to KQAS. 

:"I really want to tell you, man, about my car radio?" He moved closer to Mucho, who'd already read and filed Hector's story by now, and would presently begin to edge away. "Which is kin' of unique 'causs it only gits this one station? KQAS! Kick-Ass 460 on th' AM dial! 
:460 megahertz is the police band. 

'''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]]

'''Today Doc found Fritz''' 
Morning, Friday, March 27, 1970, the fourth day of the narrative.

'''Dodge Super Bee'''
[[File:DodgeSuperBee.jpg|thumb|left|1969 Dodge Super Bee, Photo from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_Super_Bee Wikipedia]]]
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'''ARPAnet''' 
"It's a network of computers, Doc. all connected by phone lines. UCLA, Isla Vista, Stanford. Say there's a file they have up there and you don't, they'll send it right along at fifty thousand characters per second."

The ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) created by ARPA of the United States Department of Defense during the Cold War, was the world's first operational packet switching network, and the predecessor of the global Internet.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET Wikipedia]

An interesting discussion about ARPAnet on pg. 195.

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'''ARPA''' 
Now '''DARPA'''

Created as the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) in February 1958. Its creation was directly attributed to the launching of Sputnik and to U.S. realization that the Soviet Union had developed the capacity to rapidly exploit military technology. [http://www.darpa.mil/history.html Darpa Website]

'''TRW''' 
TRW Incorporated was an American corporation involved in a number of businesses, mostly defense-related, but including automotive, aerospace and credit reporting."[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRW Wikipedia]

'''Ramo isn't telling Woolridge? [sic]''' 
The 1958 merger of Thompson with the Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation (named after Simon Ramo and Dean Wooldridge) was named Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc., then shortened to TRW Inc. in 1965.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRW Wikipedia]

The Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation's main business, from 1954, was acting as the principal technical advisor to the Air Force on the development of the US intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) program. The technical foundation of that effort was, of course, the German V2 program, a principal focus of Gravity's Rainbow. [http://www.spaceline.org/history/6.html Reference] and [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/23/business/23wooldridge.html another one].

Boeing was a contractor for the Minuteman missile system, part of the ICBM program. As a technical writer for Boeing, Pynchon's primary subject was Boeing missile work, including the Minuteman program. [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_6750/is_46-49/ai_n28819965/ Reference]

The Ramo and Wooldridge reference, at least for people with very long memories, may not be as obscure as it first appears. [http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19570429,00.html Link]

The phrasing also recalls the old New York saying, "Does Macy's tell Gimbels?" This referred to two competing department stores a block away from each other near Penn Station. Macy's is still there, but Gimbels is long gone. [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_6750/is_46-49/ai_n28819965/ Reference]

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