Difference between revisions of "Chapter 13"

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Code 7
Meal break.

Cielo Drive
Site of the Manson family murders. More here.

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Evelyn Wood
Developed a system for speed reading. More 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 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.

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

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'69 Camaro
a bright red '69 Camaro

1969 Camaro © BrokenSphere / Wikimedia Commons

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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 "kind of Wyatt Earp-type handlebar mustache."

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1962 Bonneville, photo by 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. [1]

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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 "Dead Man's Hand".

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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.

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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